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Located in the heart of exciting Kansas City, MO, this Kansas City Best Western offers guests comfort and convenience needed for an unforgettable stay. Just outside this charming hotel in Kansas City, guests will find the best of the city and with a free shuttle that goes within three miles of the hotel, you can access it all. Tour the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Enjoy thrilling NASCAR races at the Kansas City Speedway. Catch a Chiefs or Royals game. Take a trip to shop at Country Club Plaza. Watch a performance at the Kaufman Center for Performing Arts. Or visit family or friends at Rockhurst University or St. Luke's Hospital. While in town, try to catch one of our popular annual events, like the Renaissance Fair, Farm Show and more. Back at this 100% non-smoking, pet-friendly BEST WESTERN PLUS Seville Plaza Hotel, guests can enjoy relaxing and unwinding in one of our spacious guest accommodations, each complete with cable satellite television, free high-speed Internet access and all the comforts of home. Other amenities at this Kansas City hotel also include a complimentary full breakfast each morning and on-site exercise facilities. Hot tub rooms are also available upon request. Visiting for business? You'll love this Kansas City hotel's on-site business center and close proximity to area businesses, like Hallmark, Russell Stover, St. Luke's Hospital and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Make your reservations today and save at the BEST WESTERN PLUS Seville Plaza Hotel! This property reserves the right to limit parking spaces to one per guest room on sold out dates. Enjoy your stay.
Amenities· 24-hour front desk
· Accessible facilities
· Air conditioning
· Air conditioning
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· All public areas non-smoking
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Room Information1 KING BED
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Meal included - continental breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Refrigerator, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Meal included: full American breakfast
Queen bed, Non-smoking, Refrigerator, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Meal included: full American breakfast
Queen bed, Non-smoking, Refrigerator, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Hairdryer, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Refrigerator, Internet access, Coffee/Tea maker, Hairdryer, Meal included: full American breakfast
King bed, Non-smoking, Internet access, Sofa bed, Refrigerator, Coffee/Tea maker, Hairdryer, Meal included: full American breakfast
Queen bed, Non-smoking, Meal included: full American breakfast
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· American Dollars is the native currency.
· Check in time is 3:00 PM
· Check out time is 11:00 AM
· Time Zone is CST
· Opened in 1986
· Renovated in 01/01/2003
· 75 rooms.
· 0 suites.
· 4 floors.
From: The north. Interstate 35 south to Exit 1B, stay on Broadway South to 43rd Street, turn left one block to Main then right on Main Street. The BEST WESTERN PLUS Seville Plaza Hotel is a half a block on the left. From: The south. Take US 71 North to Swope Parkway Exit, turn left to Main Street then right on Main. The BEST WESTERN PLUS Seville Plaza Hotel is 4 blocks on the right. From: The east and west. Interstate 70 to Interstate 35 South to Exit 1B, stay on Broadway South to 43rd Street, turn left one block then right on Main Street. The BEST WESTERN PLUS Seville Plaza Hotel is a half a block on the left.
Restaurant InformationPF Changs
0.30 mile(s) from PF Changs, Chinese, moderate pricesLevy Lounge
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0.20 mile(s) from Jardines, live jazz, moderate prices opens Monday through Saturday at 11:00 a.m.Historic Westport
0.30 mile(s) from Historic Westport , Local nighttime hot spot of local dining- entertainmentCheesecake Factory
0.30 mile(s) from Cheesecake Factory, American, moderate pricesRuth's Chris
0.50 mile(s) from Ruth's Chris, Steakhouse, high priceHistoric Country Club Plaza
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Meeting FacilityAccommodates up to 15
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Spa - INRM SPA/OVS TUB
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Ocean - 15.00 mile(s) from Ocean of Fun
Ice skating - 2.00 mile(s) from ice skating
Area Attractions- Kansas City,
15.00 mile(s) from Kansas City, KS- Overland Park,
15.00 mile(s) from Overland Park, KS- Country Club Plaza,
0.30 mile(s) from Country Club Plaza, famous shopping district- Crown Center,
2.00 mile(s) from Crown Center, shopping area with over 40 stores and restaurants- Westport Entertainment District,
0.30 mile(s) from Westport Entertainment District, historic shopping and entertainment district- Rockhurst University
1.50 mile(s) from Rockhurst University- Kansas City Art Institute
0.20 mile(s) from Kansas City Art Institute- University of Missouri,
0.60 mile(s) from University of Missouri, Kansas City- Bartle Hall,
5.00 mile(s) from Bartle Hall, Kansas City's largest convention center- 18th & Vine Jazz District,
4.00 mile(s) from 18th & Vine Jazz District, historic entertainment district- Science City,
2.00 mile(s) from Science City, a children's interactive museum- World War 1 museum
2.00 mile(s) from World War 1 museum- Kansas Speedway
20.00 mile(s) from Kansas Speedway- NFL Kansas City Chiefs,
10.00 mile(s) from NFL Kansas City Chiefs, at Truman Sports Complex- Crown Center - Hallmark Headquarters
2.00 mile(s) from Crown Center - Hallmark Headquarters- Sprint Center and Power and Light Distric
3.00 mile(s) from Sprint Center and Power and Light Distric- Nelson Atkins Art Gallery
0.20 mile(s) from Nelson Atkins Art Gallery- Union Station,
2.00 mile(s) from Union Station, museum, restaurants and IMAX Theater- Kansas City Royals,
10.00 mile(s) from Kansas City Royals, major league baseball team at Truman Sports Complex- Kansas City Zoo,
4.00 mile(s) from Kansas City Zoo, with 200 acres of natural habitats- Negro League Hall of Fame,
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Aaron Gold and Mary Zwerneman were married in a 3:30 p.m. ceremony conducted by Father Thomas Shoemaker on Oct. 5, 2013, at Little Flower Catholic Church in South Bend.
A reception followed at Blue Heron at Blackthorne. The couple reside in San Diego, Calif.
The bride is the daughter of John and Amy Zwerneman of Granger. She is owner of Wine and Canvas San Diego.
The groom is the son of Richard and Alice Gold of Columbus. He is a business development analyst at Cummins Cal Pacific.
Annie Zwerneman of Dallas, Texas, was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Rachel Bronsweig of Chicago; Sara Holtz and Monica Bagiack, both of Indianapolis; Rachel Gold of Denver; Alyson Zwerneman of Charlotte, N.C.; and Emma Lam of San Diego.
Brandon Jones of Columbus was best man. Groomsmen were Andrew Gold and Kevin O'Neill, both of Columbus; Kyle Shedd of Kodiak, Alaska; Mark Presto of Chicago; Adam Cranfill of Indianapolis; and Connor Johnson of Richmond, Va.
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U.S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Murphy, an Afghanistan-Pakistan Hand with 1st Infantry Division, serves lunch to soldiers, Nov. 22, 2012. Murphy was one of many officers and senior noncommissioned officers serving food to soldiers during lunch and dinner on Thanksgiving Day at Forward Operating Base Lightning. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Alex Kirk Amen, 115th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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All transactions that are paid using the Buy Card (or P-Card) as the method of payment must be reconciled within the PeopleSoft FMS system. Each Buy Card is coded to have a primary (or default) account code to which purchases will be expensed if the transactions are not reconciled. Typically, this default account will not be a sponsored project account. Therefore, if the expenses should be paid with sponsored project funds, the reconciliation process should take place prior to the Buy Card bill being paid.
The Buy Card bills are paid monthly. There is a "reconcile all" process that is automatically run by the system that forces the status of purchases to be changed from "unreconciled" to "reconciled" so that the payment can be made. This forces the purchase to be expensed to the default account. The "reconcile all" process occurs on the 18th of each month, so it is important that all Buy Card purchases are reviewed and reconciled before that date in order that they be expensed to the appropriate account.
If Buy Card purchases are not expensed to the appropriate account, they will have to be transferred to the appropriate account after-the-fact. HOOP 96 (Cost Transfers) provides specific information on transferring such expenses. The most important thing to keep in mind is that there is a time limit for when costs can be transferred on to sponsored project accounts. The costs must be transferred within 60 calendar days from the end of the month in which the original expense was incurred. Otherwise, the costs can only be transferred to a departmental or "All Other" account. Further, cost transfers cannot cross fiscal years.


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Hi everyone,
I started this thread to show a little about my business. I've read the forum rules but can't seem to find anything about these kinds of posts? If I'm not allowed very sorry mods! I can answer any paint-work, frame repair or vintage bike related question. Frame numbers, unidentified frames are also my area of expertise. I really enjoy anything classic lightweight related!
I'd like to give a proper introduction, a little about myself, I've been a long time lurker.. My name is James Langton, I'm 20 from Leicester, UK. I found education extremely hard leaving with little to show for, but I've got a degree in the hard knocks.
I've always had my own little businesses ever since a very young age, but I've always been trying to find something which combines the love of my bike and running my own business.
On 31st March 2011, I received some investment money from my parents after convincing them I knew what I was doing, I didn't have a clue, just a dream in my head and a overly positive attitude.
Soon after, I started No Quarter Bikes as a official business. I slipped, tripped and fell flat on my face, learning as I went along, but it was the only way. I wrote down exactly the services and products I wanted to offer, away I went. The plan was to do absolutely everything by hand, here in the UK. Britain has some of the finest craftsmen in the world and I went on the hunt for the best of the best.
I've been working with professional riders, mechanics and engineers to produce some unique and tasteful goods which look cool, ride awesome and are the highest quality possible. I'm not technically or physically minded in alot of the services I offer, but I've put together an 'elite team' to get the best results.
Originally starting out in my garage by myself, things have really picked up and I've just moved into a bigger premises where everything gets done in-house. I've taken on some new members of staff; wheel-builders, cycle mechanics, pin-stripers etc, each having over 20 years in the trade. We've got some seriously cool stuff coming up which I can't wait to release.
Some of our previous work and vintage stock..
2012 Mercian 631 lugless fresh out the booth on Friday.
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Broadway's Holloran leaves VMI football for EMU hoops
By Mike Barber, Daily News-Record A year ago, Kirby Dean fell in love with Luke Holloran's basketball abilities. But Holloran spurned Dean's overtures to play Division I-AA football at Virginia Military Institute. Now, the two are going to give it a go. Holloran, a former Broadway High School star, said Thursday he is transferring to Eastern Mennoni ...More


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Girl Scout Mission
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
100 Years
Founder Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout Troop on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Ga.
An American Institution
Girl Scouts of the USA was chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 16, 1950.
Still Growing Strong
Today, there are 2.7 million—1.9 million girls and 800,000 adult volunteers working primarily as volunteers.
Empowering Girls
In Girl Scouts, girls discover the fun, friendship, and power of girls together. Through a myriad of enriching experiences, such as extraordinary field trips, sports skill-building clinics, community service projects, cultural exchanges, and environmental stewardships, girls grow courageous and strong. Girl Scouting helps girls develop their full individual potential; relate to others with increasing understanding, skill, and respect; develop values to guide their actions and provide the foundation for sound decision-making; and contribute to the improvement of society through their abilities, leadership skills, and cooperation with others.
At Home & Abroad
Girls at home and abroad participate in troops and groups in more than 92 countries through USA Girl Scouts Overseas, and over 100 local Girl Scout councils offer girls the opportunity for membership across the United States.
An International Family
Through its membership in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), Girl Scouts of the USA is part of a worldwide family of 10 million girls and adults in 145 countries.
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Olympian doc's sports charity
heals wounded kids
Speed skater Johann Koss gives
war-ravaged kids a Right to Play
By Judah Issa
Can sport deliver children from
the horrors of sex slavery and war? Olympic speed skating
champ and physician Johann Olav Koss thinks it can.
His charity Right to Play works with kids in 24 war-torn
countries, building sports facilities from football
fields to basketball courts, and providing equipment
for the kids. They also provide counselling and life
skills training to the troubled kids. The goal is to
improve both the kids' mental and physical health. "Sport
is not a luxury," says Dr Koss. It's a tool for development,
helping kids grow and become active members of their
communities. "It's about children playing and being
And it seems to be working. Take
the kids at Uganda's Imvepi refugee camp, a mix of former
child soldiers, sex slaves and war-displaced kids. Many
fled genocides in neighbouring Sudan and Rwanda, bearing
mental and physical scars too painful for any kid to
handle. There's the boy who was abducted by rebels and
trained to be a soldier. And the girl, also abducted
by a rebel group, forced to work as a sex slave. As
so often happens, she became pregnant and was cast out
by her community. She wrote to Dr Koss at Christmas
to tell him that after taking part in the Right to Play
program she was accepted back into her family and community.
"Seeing the change in these kids' lives is one of the
most rewarding aspects of the program," says Dr Koss,
head of Right to Play.
Dr Koss's involvement with Right to Play dates back
to his speed skating days, just before the 1994 Winter
Olympics in his native Norway. The charity was then
called Olympic Aid and enlisted athletes to raise awareness
for poverty in Africa. The Oslo med student travelled
to Eritrea and saw first hand the poor conditions that
the children lived in.
He returned home to compete in
the Olympics earning three gold medals
and donated a good portion of his prize money to the
charity he'd come to admire. The organization grew quickly
beyond its original scope. They restructured, moved
out from under the Olympic umbrella and became Right
to Play with Dr Koss at the helm in Toronto. So how
did a Norwegian doctor end up running an NGO in Canada?
"I married Belinda," Dr Koss says.
Yes, that Belinda Belinda Stronach. The
couple met in London in 1999 and married later that
same year. The marriage was short-lived they
divorced after three years but by then, Dr Koss
had fallen for his adopted country and decided to establish
the charity's headquarters in Toronto.
He then faced another tough choice.
"The focus you have to give medicine needs to be 100%,
and the focus to give to Right to Play needs to be 100%
also," says Dr Koss. "It was very hard to leave medicine,
but what I'm doing right now is a great alternative.
And my medical background has helped bring the health
aspect into this organization."
Nowhere is this more apparent than at Imvepi, where
Right to Play has been working since 2002. With the
help of UN organizations like UNICEF and UNHCR, the
charity started educating kids about HIV and how to
protect themselves from the virus. They also teach them
problem-solving and other life skills for the future.
The sports part of the program
gives the boys an outlet for their aggression and the
girls a fresh respect for their bodies, says Dr Koss.
Many end up working for the charity. "They're looking
after other children and mentoring them."
But funding is a chronic problem.
And Dr Koss partly blames his adopted homeland. "Canada
made a commitment forty years ago to increase international
aid from 0.3% to 0.7% of the GNP," says Dr Koss. That
adds up to a hefty $175 billion. Unfortunately, although
Prime Minister Harper pledged to fulfill Lester B Pearson's
promise, no solid effort has been made. In fact, the
PM earned harsh criticism from U2's Bono and Ms Stronach
among others at June's G8 summit in Germany for reportedly
blocking an agreement to increase aid to Africa.
Still, there's hope, says Dr Koss.
With a little less focus on the politics, and a little
more focus on the humanitarian aspect, maybe a plan
will come about, he says.
In the meantime, he keeps up his
skating by strapping on his roller-blades "even
a former athlete needs to watch his weight," he jokes
and works at growing the charity so he can help
even more kids discover the healing power of sport.
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In my code I have a pretty big loop and I need to create a new variable at the end of each iteration (integers). Is this possible? I read about a ScriptEngineManager class, but I'm not sure if this will be able to help. I suppose I could create a bunch of integers equal to 0, but I'm not exactly sure how many times I will need to create a new variable (it depends on the conditions of the loop). Hopefully this makes sense.
Use an array. In Javascript, place
Unfortunately, it doesn't.
In Java it makes no sense to create variables on the fly. It is extremely difficult to do, and once you have done it they are extremely difficult to use. (By contrast, it is easy to do in Javascript ...)
However, this just means that you need to do what you are trying to in a different way. For instance, the following does a computation in a loop and then saves the results in an (existing)
Or, if you want to bind each of the results to a distinct name, you could do something like this:
Following is the way that i have implemented and helped me to fix my solution easily without much hurdles.
// Creating the array List
Iterating the loop and adding the objects into the arraylist with the index.
//Retrieving the object at run time with the help of the index


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Franklin County, MO (KSDK) - Charges have been filed against a man from Washington, Missouri after a pharmacy was robbed earlier this week.
Matthew J. Florence, 24, has been charged with first-degree pharmacy robbery and theft, and stealing a controlled substance.
Hall's Pharmacy in Krakow was robbed around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Florence was taken into custody Thursday afternoon after an anonymous tip led detectives to his apartment. He later confessed to the robbery.
Authorities say about half of the drugs have been recovered.
Police say Florence told them after the robbery he went to a home on Country Club Lane, which is near the pharmacy. He says he did not have a weapon during the robbery.
Florence is held at the Franklin County Jail on a $150,000 cash-only bond.


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Adding a Build Configuration
Customize a set of build setting definitions across any number of targets or projects by adding a build configuration file to your project. To add a build configuration file, duplicate one of the project's existing configurations, and modify its settings.
In the project editor, select a project.
Click Info at the top of the project editor.
In the Configurations section, click the Add button (+).
From the popup menu, select a configuration file to duplicate.
Enter a name for the new build configuration file.
Click Build Settings at the top of the project editor.
Edit the settings for your new build configuration file.
A configuration file is a plain text file with a list of build setting definitions, one per line. You can base a build configuration only on a configuration file that is in your project, not on an external file.
When you base a target or project's build configuration on a configuration file, that build configuration automatically inherits the build setting definitions in that configuration file (and any configuration files it includes). If you then modify the value of any of those build settings in the target or project, the new value is used instead of the value in the configuration file.
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If you are a veteran and you want to work for yourself, the NYS Veterans' Business Outreach Center (VBOC) can help you start your own business. If you are a veteran currently running your own small business, VBOC can help you expand and strengthen your business.
VBOC provides targeted business training, counseling, and mentoring to help you start and grow your small business. Our Business Advisors can help you improve profitability, expand market share, explore export opportunities, and provide valuable assistance in terms of establishing your business on a stronger organizational and financial footing.
The Veterans' Business Outreach Centers were created by the U.S. Congress to enable men and women who have served in the Armed Forces to take full advantage of the opportunities presented by owning and operating their own business. Service disabled veterans are especially encouraged to use these services.
VBOC Services
The Veterans' Business Outreach Center provides the following services free-of-charge:
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If you are a veteran running your own business, think about lending another veteran a helping hand by signing up for our Mentorship Initiative. Share your experience and expertise with another veteran who wants to start a business. For more information, please call 631-370-8890.
Operation Boots to Business
Boots to Business is a three-step training program developed to introduce and train transitioning service members to business ownership. Boots to Business helps ensure that every transitioning service member has access to a standardized entrepreneurship training track and small business resources in their local communities. Boots to Business is offered by the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (SU) and operated by SUs Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), in partnership with SBA resource partners, including the NY SBDC.
SBA and Defense Department officials are now expanding the Boots to Business program beyond transitioning troops to any service member at any time in their career. Military spouses also will be able to sign-up for the program, space permitting.
Register now to Boots to Business REBOOT: a free one-week lunch time program for veterans who want to start, expand or purchase a small business. Meets at the Watervliet Arsenal, Monday - Friday Sept. 28th – Oct. 2, 2015, from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm – lunch provided at no cost.
Act Now
If you are a veteran looking to start or expand your business, call 1-800-732-7232 or e-mail
The Veterans' Business Outreach Centers are partially funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Veterans' Business Development (OVBD). The OVBD is established to help veterans become full partners in economic development through small business ownership. You can visit their website here.


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KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents poisoned, then shot and killed 17 people as they slept at a police post in eastern Afghanistan, one of two attacks in as many days targeting Afghan security forces, an official said Wednesday.
The killings occurred overnight in a remote district of Ghazni province where villagers last year took up arms against the Taliban. Members of the Afghan Local Police, a U.S.-backed rural guard force made up of village recruits, were poisoned during dinner by a fellow police officer who officials said had ties to the Taliban, and then were fatally shot by insurgents who overran the outpost, officials said.
Ten of the dead were local police officers while the seven other victims were civilians, said provincial Gov. Musa Khan Akbarzada. "It was a harrowing incident," he said. Reports differed in describing the civilians, with some saying the seven were friends and relatives spending the night at the outpost to help provide security and others calling them recruits.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killings but denied the reports of poisoning. The incident was at least the fourth such poisoning of government security forces attributed to insurgents since October, according to the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office, which tracks security developments across the country.
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The killings took place in the district of Andar, where villagers made headlines — and won fans among U.S. military commanders — last summer for an apparently spontaneous uprising against Taliban rule. Many of the civilians who took up arms have been folded into the Afghan Local Police, which U.S. officials plan to expand nationwide from 20,000 troops to 45,000 troops in the coming years.
The Pentagon intends the local police to become the first line of defense against the Taliban in areas out of the reach of the regular Afghan army and police, but the force has been accused of human-rights abuses allegedly committed by the lightly trained recruits and their commanders. The Afghan Interior Ministry, which supervises the local police, says it has taken steps to improve accountability and punished those who have committed abuses.
Some former members of the insurgency also have been recruited into the local police. Officials in Ghazni said the Taliban members were trying to infiltrate the police force to stage revenge attacks.
Earlier Wednesday, a suicide bomber attacked a bus carrying Afghan army soldiers in a western district of Kabul, wounding six of them and four civilians in the second security incident in the capital this week.
The bomber struck while soldiers were boarding an Afghan Defense Ministry bus. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in text messages.
Material from The Associated Press is included in this report.


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The Neo Fuzz v.2 effects pedal delivers the crème de la crème of vintage fuzz tone powered by a pair of hand-selected germanium transistors.
Ultimate flexibility comes from eight controls for Fuzz, Load, Bias, Body, Tone, Volume, Tame switch, and an internal gain trimmer.
Gain control:
Navigate the Neo Fuzz v.2's huge gain range, from nothing to sustain for days. It can be used as a low-gain device (for a fat, bluesy bite) or for all-out fuzz madness.
Internal gain trimmer:
To tame the Neo Fuzz v.2, use this internal control.
Load control:
This is a variable input impedance, used to match the Neo Fuzz to humbuckers or single-coil pickups. You can also use it to go from a traditional fuzz sound to a more articulate one with detailed highs.
Bias control:
Use this to set up the operating point of the transistors, from a fat, symmetrical fuzz to an asymmetrical 'mosquito' buzz, or even a gated synth-like sound!
Body control:
This knob is a dedicated midrange control—the most important frequencies for determining how your tone sits in with the rest of the band.
Tone control:
Controls both the lows and highs as opposed to being a high cut filter. Think of it as bass and treble controls rolled into one. The combination of the Tone and Body controls is like having a 3-band EQ at your disposal.
Volume control:
With plenty of output to spare, you can use the New Fuzz v.2 to overdrive your amp.
3-position Tame switch:
This brightness switch helps tame the high-end. It's useful if you're using your Neo Fuzz v.2. with a bright, modern-voiced clean channel or with overdrive pedals.
Powered by 9V battery or optional DC power supply. The Neo Fuzz v.2 needs its own independent power supply, as the internal polarity is reversed since the germanium transistors require a negative supply voltage. True bypass.
- Vintage fuzz tone powered by two hand-selected Germanium transistors
- 8 controls for dialing in the perfect fuzz tone
- Huge gain range


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TORONTO REVIEW: "American Beauty" Showcases Pageant of Savage Wit
by Ray Pride
What Todd Solondz thought he was doing with "Happiness" may be what
director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Alan Ball have accomplished with
breezy ease and sinister wit. "American Beauty" is an ensemble portrait
of the botched dreams of U.S. suburbia, suggesting an unnamed
ill-at-ease feeling that seems at first a lump of heartburn which will
soon turn out to be abiding heartache. "Stunning" is the Toronto
Festival catalog's adjective, and from the first frames, theater
director Mendes' movie debut radiates a rare formal intelligence.
Imagine the visual beauty and thematic sorrow of "The Ice Storm," but
with savage and profane jokes delivered with impeccable timing.
Ball's weave of sinister plot and sorrowful motivations can't be
untangled in a few hundred words, but here's an outline. Kevin Spacey's
adroit comic timing has never had a better showcase, playing Lester
Burnham, a trade magazine writer man whose mid-life crisis rapidly turns
nuclear family meltdown. Annette Bening is his equally frustrated
realtor wife, and Mendes gives her room to pull out the
Oscar-nominatable stops in several rueful crying jags.
The movie is rife with examples of the productive collaboration between
ace septuagenarian cinematographer Conrad Hall's knowledge of light and
color and the stage-trained Mendes' ("Cabaret," "The Blue Room")
patience in allowing dramatic, poignant pauses and entrances. One of
Bening's loneliest moments is typical of their approach. After failing
to sell a house, she closes the blinds of a sliding glass door. The room
dims, a slat or two of light creases her eyes. She chastises herself,
smacking her face, crying, "Stupid, stupid!", then composes herself and
walks from the empty room, the blinds swaying impotently in her wake.
Then, the empty, stage-like space is held for a second or two in a
stage-style coup de theatre that's quite lovely. (Bening's
heartwrenching squall of self-loathing is of course what is often called
"an actor's moment.")
The Burnhams have a daughter, Jane (Thora Birch, a poker-faced
Modigliani) who one day introduces her father to her best friend, Angela
(a pluperfectly princessy Mena Suvari). Angela is introduced in a
forceful yet also in-jokey way, as the two are part of a cheerleading
squad doing a Paula Abdul-choreographed number to "On Broadway."
Watching the scene, you know Mendes has seen a Bob Fosse film or three.
But Mendes has more in common with Fosse than successful versions of
"Cabaret"-they're both artists from outside the movie world interested
in chance-taking, trying to slice a fresh, vigorous visual vocabulary,
while paying attention to the nuance fine actors can make of even
on-the-nose dialogue. The words are rich with life because of Mendes'
fine direction of gifted actors. Jane is horrified to find her father
pie-eyed over Angela, and even more nauseated that Angela flirts back.
(Check Spacey's irrepressible leer as he tries merely to smile at
Angela.) Angela's fear is the same of everyone in the film's physical
and narrative cul-de-sacs: "Because there's nothing worse in life than
being ordinary."
Satire, as it has been said, is what closes on Saturday night, but there
are other canny elements, such as a motif of rose petals appearing in
modestly surreal ways in Lester's reveries, a repeated touch like
Forrest Gump's free-floating signifier, its high-flying feather.
DreamWorks bought veteran sitcom writer ("Cybill") Ball's script, and
made it for a low studio price (under $15 million by most reports). It
follows the recent model for smart, indie-style films being produced by
studios. Get terrific actors to work for little money on smart material,
as with "Election," "Go" or any of Miramax projects. It may be
DreamWorks' Oscar bid this year, and it'll be interesting to see if they
do an all-stops-pulled-out Weinstein-style campaign for this hilarious,
oft-bizarre, tender yet brittle social satire. A stellar Thomas Newman
score-audibly the work of the composer of "Meet Joe Black" and "Oscar
and Lucinda" is added ear candy, lightly underlining the emotions in his
customary spare, jangly style. A closing credit nods toward Mendes'
collaborator on "The Blue Room" (and her mate)-a thanks to Stanley
Kubrick's very own "Dr. Bill and Alice."
[Ray Pride is a contributing editor to FILMMAKER Magazine and longtime film critic for
Chicago's Newcity. He writes about movies for many other publications,


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Complications of Hepatitis C
Your liver is an important organ that helps your body digest food, store vitamins and nutrients, and fight infection. It also cleans your blood and destroys toxins before they have a chance to poison your body.
Certain diseases can affect the liver, however, including hepatitis C, a viral infection that causes liver disease and inflammation. There are two basic types:
Acute: This form of the disease can last up to six months before the immune system fights off the infection completely and the virus goes away for good, or the infection continues and becomes chronic. Most cases (75% to 85%) become chronic.
Chronic: This form of hepatitis C is long lasting. It occurs when the body can't get rid of the virus.
Virus Symptoms
Many people with either acute or chronic hepatitis C have no symptoms. If symptoms do occur, it's because the hepatitis C virus has caused liver damage. It often takes up to 10 years for this to happen.
Symptoms of hepatitis C may include:
Dark-yellow urine
Itchy skin
Light-colored stools
Loss of appetite
Stomach pain
- Yellowish eyes and skin
Common Complications of Hepatitis C
Even though hepatitis C is typically a silent disease, it can be a deadly one. Here are three common conditions that chronic hepatitis C can cause, which lead to serious health problems.
Cirrhosis: About one in four people with chronic hepatitis C develops cirrhosis, a disease in which liver cells become damaged and replaced with scar tissue. As a result, the liver can't clean the blood or help the body digest food. Cirrhosis can lead to liver failure.
Liver failure: Chronic hepatitis Can damage the liver so extensively that it no longer functions. At that point, a liver transplant—receiving a healthy liver from a donor—may be necessary.
Liver cancer: Hepatitis C can increase your risk of liver cancer, a condition in which cells in the liver divide uncontrollably, leading to tumors and other problems.
How to Reduce Your Risk
Knowledge is power. To lower your risk for liver failure and liver cancer, especially if you've been diagnosed with hepatitis C, take good care of your liver. Be sure to eat a healthy diet and avoid alcoholic beverages, which further harm the liver.
Stick to your medication regimen and ask your doctor if you could benefit from new and better treatments. Talk with your doctor before taking over-the-counter medicines, too.
Key Takeaways
About one in four people with chronic hepatitis C develops cirrhosis, in which liver cells become damaged and replaced with scar tissue.
Chronic hepatitis Ccan damage the liver so extensively that a liver transplant may be necessary.
Hepatitis C can also increase your risk of liver cancer.
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- What I need to know about Cirrhosis, National
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- What I
need to know about Hepatitis C, National Digestive Diseases Information
Clearinghouse, Accessed January 20, 2014
- Vital Signs,
Hepatitis C. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Accessed
January 31, 2014 (http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/HepatitisC/index.html);
- Cirrhosis, American Liver Foundation (http://www.liverfoundation.org/abouttheliver/info/cirrhosis/);


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it gets recognised by the computer as external camera; if u cant find software to vieuw the image use manycam it works fine.
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Royals top Warriors in OT
At Hollenback, Melanie Kusakavitch scored a goal and assisted on Rachel Platko's game-winning goal in overtime as Holy Redeemer pulled out a 2-1 win over Wyoming Area on Friday.
Greta Ell also had an assist for the Royals.
Victoria Braccini scored for Wyoming Area and Emilie Wanko chipped in with an assist.
SCORING First half: Victoria Braccini (W) from Emilie Wanko, 14:36. Second half: Melanie Kusakavitch (H) from Greta Ell, 9:14. Overtime: Rachel Platko (HR) from Melanie Kusakavitch, 13:20.
Shots: HR 17, WA 9; Corners: HR 10, WA 5; Saves: HR 3 (Holly Slowik), WA 5 (Christina Granteed).
Wyoming Seminary 1
Honesdale 0
At Klassner Field, Mallory Lefkowitz scored off a pass from Becca Weinstock in the first half for the lone goal of the game.
SCORING: First half: Mallory Lefkowitz (WS) from Becca Weinstock, 14:14.
Shots: Sem 24, Hon 9; Corners: Sem 11, Hon 3; Saves: Sem 4 (Gagliardi), Hon 15 (Jackson).
Hazleton Area 5
Lackawanna Trail 4 (OT)
At Lackawanna Trail, Kara Sanford completed her hat trick with the game-winning goal in overtime for Hazleton Area.
Nicole Rosa had three goals for Lackawanna Trail.
SCORING: First half: Victoria Middleton (HA), unassisted. Nicole Rosa (LT) from Kasey Buck. Second half: Kara Sanford (HA) from Selena Garzio. Garzio (HA), unassisted. Sanford (HA) from Garzio. Rosa (LT from Daria Lewandowski. Buck (LT) from Jordan Laytos. Rosa (LT) from Buck. Overtime: Sanford (HA) from Madison Reed.
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the New Horizons probe, which carries some of the ashes of Pluto's discoverer Clyde Tombaugh
...what a superb tribute!
The Hubble Space Telescope has found yet another moon orbiting what used to be the last planet in the Solar System. The moon, the fifth that's been spotted orbiting Pluto, is an irregularly shaped lump around 6 to 15 miles across and orbits in a plane 58,000 miles around the dwarf planet. It was spotted in nine images taken with …
...what a superb tribute!
Will they be thrown overboard at some point, to lithobrake (icebrake?) on Pluto's surface?
Also, when do we get to rename one of Pluto's moons as 'Mass Relay'?
It was in Mass Effect so it must be true...
So now it's been found, what do we do with it?
"Eventually the New Horizons probe ... will become the furthest man-made object to travel from Earth".
Nope. It's velocity is already less than that of Voyager I by 2 km/s and it will only slow down further as it goes through termination shock and loses the solar wind from its' sails. It will never catch up with Voyager.
"Eventually the New Horizons probe ... will become the furthest man-made object to travel from Earth".
Nope. It's velocity is already less than that of Voyager I by 2 km/s and it will only slow down further as it goes through termination shock and loses the solar wind from its' sails. It will never catch up with Voyager."
Not unless a galactic zargon beam intercepts Voyager 1 and destroys it - with all life on board.
a planet, always will be.
@Dave Ross
>>Always has been.. a planet, always will be.
What about Eris? similar size to pluto, similar orbit, is that a planet? and then there's the slightly smaller Makemake, is that a planet? smaller still, but of a similar factor, then there's Haumea, Sedna, 2007 OR(10), Quaoar and Orcus, are they planets? do we have 15 planets? in the solar system (and still counting)?
When does an orbiting asteroid become big enough to become a moon? Enquiring minds must know.
If it's orbiting a planet then might be moon.
If it's orbiting some random lump of rock in a highly elliptical orbit...
that was named after a fictitious dog...
Moons orbit planets, asteroids orbit the star, comets sell shoddy electrical merchandise.
Otherwise, there's little difference.
> If it's orbiting a planet then might be moon.
But Pluto isn't a planet, so none of them are moons!
Pluto is a dwarf planet ergo it is a planet
So the new moon should then be called Snow White, to follow the Disney tradition?
"But Pluto isn't a planet, so none of them are moons!"
Yes it is. Dwarf planets are a category of planets. You wouldn't say that a hatchback or city-car 'wasn't a car', would you?
A better analogy would be trying to categorise a Reliant Robin, I think.
According to New Scientist, "Pluto may not be a planet any more, but the discovery of its fifth moon means it can boast more satellites than the inner four planets combined."
-- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22052-discovery-of-fifth-moon-reignites-pluto-planet-debate.html
I agree it should be a planet, but that doesn't make it one.
Looking at "Charon (green) rocks Pluto's world". Why does it look like the two repel each another? Shouldn't Pluto be @ the other side of the red circle? (180° further along its orbit, yadda yadda).
I'm no scientist and this won't really affect at what time I break open my lunch tin. But .... Enquiring minds must know.
<=== Boldly go where no-one else bothered to go before.
"Shouldn't Pluto be @ the other side of the red circle?"
No. Since this is an Olympic year, you will forgive the athletic analogy. Think of Pluto as the hammer-thrower, and Charon as the hammer.
Got it?
They both orbit around their common center-of-mass. At no time can that center of mass be on Pluto's far-side away from Charon.
Thats no moon.......
That's no planet either........
So THAT'S where John Prescott went!
The definition of planet is that it is in orbit around the Sun, has sufficient mass to assume aroughly spheroid shape and has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.
Where there are two bodies rotating round each other, the planet is the one where the centre of gravity is below its surface. (another nail in the coffin for pluto).
The people who wrote the definition and defined Pluto as a dwarf planet disagree with your armchair observations...
So imagine the scenario where there are two jupiter sized bodies orbiting each other. With the centre of gravity between them, neither is a planet? Since neither is orbiting a planet, neither is a moon? Does that make them fekin giant asteroids? (If so, how many shots does it take to make them disappear on my Atari?)
>how many shots does it take to make them disappear on my Atari?
Probably the whole bottle :D
Actually that's still under contention. The definition you quote was made up by astronomers (those who study stars), but a lot of the the planetologists (those who study _planets_) don't agree with that new definition. See http://greatexperiments.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/what-is-a-planet-the-planetologists-speak/ There are other places out there that discuss this, I first heard about the controversy in an interview of a planetologist.
Can anyone say why the centre part of the image has a nice black background with no artefacts/noise, etc. ? (If anyone answers just saying photoshop, without saying why it's done I'm not going to buy them a pint)
Complete guess, the glare of the much larger Pluto and Charon obscures reflections from the smaller moons. So the area containing the two main bodies has been partially obscured.
to investigate objects in the Kuiper Belt with its infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers, a multi-colour camera, two particle spectrometers and a space-dust detector.» Not a chance ! When it discovers those «Russian dolls», it's not going to go anywhere, but break out the samovar and invite the dolls to tea....


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Thursday Jan 17, 2008
Thursday May 10, 2007
Howto win a Helicopter
By paulsen on May 10, 2007
How to win a helicopter @ JavaONE
BT had a booth at JavaONE for their Web21C SDK. The SDK, among other things, allows you to write software that invokes a WebService hosted by BT to place a phone call between 2 parties. You simply need to provide 2 phone numbers and BT calls both parties and connects the two. They provide a limited amount of usage for free, and for a small fee you can use their service more, here's a link to their pricing. The Web21C SDK opens up the door to many possibilities, however, that's outside the scope of this blog.
BT was offering a challenge at their booth: Use their SDK to place a phone call and win a remote controlled helicopter. My son is 5 and would love to crash the helicopter, and it sounded like any easy task for GlassFish + JSFTemplating... so I got to work!
Here's what I had to do:
1) I started with the JSFTemplating demo application. (Note: I used the version from CVS so that I would already have a build environment setup which uses APT.)
2) I added the Web21C jar files to my WEB-INF/lib directory of the demo app. They gave me a memory stick with these, but I think you can find them here.
3) I had problems w/ some of their jar files because many of them are already part of GlassFish and were not needed. Also some of the versions may not have been compatible. I ended up turning off classloader delegation by adding this to my sun-web.xml file:
<class-loader delegate="false"/>
4) I registered my application. BT requires you to register your application. This was a necessary, but the most painful part of the process. It required me to download the Web21C-Certificate-Tool, patch the JDK with the unlimited strength policy files, run their certificate tool, place the generated file in the WEB-INF/classes directory of the demo app, and create / place a security.properties file in the WEB-INF/classes directory that pointed to the generated file.
5) With the environment finally setup, I was ready to write the app! I created the following JSFTemplating page:
6) I created the following handler in a new java file called Web21Handlers.java (see above call.jsf page where the button is invoking this handler):
7) I compiled the app (just typed "ant" on the command line, the demo application already has the build environment setup), started the server and went to http://localhost:8080/demo/call.jsf where I saw:
After typing in the 2 phone numbers and clicking the "Make Call" button... the 2 phones rang!
8) Finally... I showed this to the Web21C people and they gave me a helicopter!
(I'm in the blue Sun shirt. You can also see this on flickr.)
That's how to get a helicopter using JSFTemplating + Web21C + GlassFish at JavaONE.
Sunday May 06, 2007
Streaming Content in JSF with JSFTemplating's FileStreamer
By paulsen on May 06, 2007
I have received questions from several people about how to use the "FileStreamer" feature of JSFTemplating. So I thought a blog would be the best way to demonstrate how it works.
FileStreamer provides the ability for the FacesServlet to stream content to the client (i.e. web browser). If that sounds generic, it is because FileStreamer is very generic. It allows you to define a ContentSource that is capable of getting content from just about anywhere. You might choose to get content from a database, retrieve it via a web service, generate it in code, access it from the filesystem or the classpath, or just about anywhere else. The ContentSource interface allows you to specify the content and information about it so that appropriate http headers will be set, causing the client (browser) to treat it correctly (i.e. Content-type, Content-Disposition, etc.). In addition to this, FileStreamer works in the context of JSF, meaning you will have access to managed beans or anything you require from your JSF environment. (NOTE: FileStreamer actually provides a Context which interacts with its environment. This allows different Context implementations to be provided for different environments; Servlet and JSF Contexts are currently available, see: ServletStreamerContext and FacesStreamerContext).
Lets look at a couple of examples.
First you have to have your JSFTemplating evironment setup. Follow these instructions for this.
Next to configure FileStreamer for JSF, add the following to your web.xml file:
The context-param registers 2 ContentSources. The source to both of these is checked into JSFTemplating's demo application. You can browse that source online here. The servlet-mapping requires a prefix mapping and needs its own dedicated FacesServlet mapping. "/resource/\*" is the default, however, this can be configured, see RESOURCE_PREFIX for more info.
Let's take a look at the key part of the ExampleContentSource to see how it works.
The above ContentSource (ExampleContentSource) is very simple, it generates its content from a String (see green text above). The String is some text with the request path (which is the PATH_INFO of the request, in other words the part of the URL after the "/resource"). Notice I added some HTML tags to show how they're treated. The red text shows that the Content-type is being explicitly set to "text/plain". This should cause the browser not to parse any html (so we should see those <b> tags on the screen).
As you can see, this simple ContentSource produces plain text in the browser. You also see that the URL requires "contentSourceId=example". "example" comes from the "id" of ExampleContentSource.
Let's take a look at 1 more example ContentSource. We'll use the same URL, except we'll use the contentSourceId of "proxy" to target our other ContentSource. Below is the interesting part of the source code for ProxyContentSource.java:
Again we are creating an InputStream, however, this time we are getting it via a URL. This time instead of hard-coding the Content-type, we're setting the extension of the file so that it will be mapped to an appropriate Content-type. Here's the output for the same URL as before (except w/ our "proxy" contentSourceId):
In this example, the content is pulled from java.sun.com from the server (not the client), then streamed to the client. The appropriate Content-type of "image/gif" was sent to the browser so that it could treat the content correctly. If you run this example, try other urls and types of media (html, pdf, doc, etc.).
I hope this blog gives you an idea of how FileStreamer functionality is useful. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think! Below is one more section describing how to configure FileStreamer in a Servlet environment (doesn't need JSF):
Servlet Setup
That's it... the rest is the same as above. You can change the url mapping directly in the web.xml file in this case. Oh... and yes, you can use the same ContentSources in both environments!
Have Fun!
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
Woodstock is here!
By paulsen on Feb 15, 2007
Woodstock JavaServer Faces Components
Sun has delivered some great components as part of Sun Java Studio Creator and NetBeans Visual Web Pack. But if you don't use one of those products, you probably didn't know it. Well, now you don't have to use these tools to enjoy the rich JavaServer Faces components they provide. In fact not only are they available outside these products, they are now Open Source!
Project Woodstock is the Java.net project which contains the source code for these components. Both Creator's and NB VWP components were derived from earlier versions of this code base. The code is released under the very flexible CDDL license. These components have been in the making for over 2 years and have gone through several development cycles. They're stable, full featured, and work seemlessly together sharing a common theme -- they're ready for production!
Let's take a look at what some of these components look like:
All of these components are "themed" so you can adapt the look of these components to your company's look and feel by creating your own theme. Many of the components use Ajax (via Ed Burn's Dynamic Faces project), and more Ajax features are sure to come. The TLD document and example application included in the project provide more than enough information to get you started.
If you're a Faclets user, Jason Lee is already working on creating a Facelets taglib for Woodstock. And of course if you're a JSFTemplating user, I have full support for the Woodstock components built in... plus I have a simple example app on the site to get you started. Plus, the entire GlassFish admin console (source here) is built using JSFTemplating and Woodstock components. So whatever your JSF environment (NetBeans, Facelets, JSFTemplating), you'll be able to use these components.
So what are you waiting for? Go download the components and try them out!
Wednesday Feb 07, 2007
Jive Clearspace is Great on GlassFish
By paulsen on Feb 07, 2007
Tuesday Jan 09, 2007
JSFTemplating + DynamicFaces = Easy Ajax
By paulsen on Jan 09, 2007
Ok, let's get right to it. Ajax is hot, but it needs to be "real". You need a fast way to be productive with Ajax, not gfx-clock productive, but real-world productive. Let me offer a suggestion...
In an effort to keep my blog entries concise (part of my New Year's Resolution), I will get right to the point. By using JSFTemplating with Ed Burns's DynamicFaces project, you have a perfect Ajax solution tailored to JSF's component architecture. Add JSF widgets like those found Greg Murray's jMaki project and you have a complete solution. However, I will save jMaki for a later blog. I want to stick to the basics for this entry -- Keep It Simple.
I created a very simple example which shows all you need and little more. You can download the complete war file and try it out. Here are the contents of the .war file:
guess.jsf <-- JSF pageWEB-INF/lib/dataprovider.jar <-- Sun component libraries & dependenciesWEB-INF/lib/json2.jarWEB-INF/lib/webui-jsf.jarWEB-INF/lib/webui-jsf-suntheme.jarWEB-INF/lib/jsftemplating.jar <-- JSFTemplating .jar fileWEB-INF/lib/jsftemplating-dynafaces-0.1.jar <-- JSFTemplating/DynamicFaces integration .jar fileWEB-INF/web.xml <-- deployment descriptor
This is a 1 page application -- doesn't get much simpler than that. It also doesn't use any managed beans, or any custom Java code. Instead it leverages JSFTemplating to do everything in the .jsf file. Let's look at the page:
And the source:
<staticText value="#{pageSession.msg}">
The blue area above defines an area where a prompt will be shown to the user. The beforeCreate event allows an initial value to be set. PageSession is a JSFTemplating-added scope. The value bound to the pageSession variable msg will be shown to the user. This is plain, oridinary text that will be replaced by an Ajax request.
The red areas is the JavaScript from DynamicFaces that is needed to submit the request. In this case, I've specified several things for this Ajax request:
- execute: A JavaScript String specifying which JSF component id's to process. In this case the button itself and the field to submit.
- immediate: Not really needed, but if there was validation on the field in "execute" immediate would skip the validation. In this example it does nothing useful. I added it to show that the other required field on the page truely isn't processed even when immediate is false. This is true partial-page processing.
- inputs: The values sent to the server. This may be different than the components processed. In this case the HTML id of the form field is different than the component id because of how the componet is implemented, so I need to send "form:guess_field" for the value to be sent correctly during the Ajax request.
- render: This specifies which area(s) of the screen should be updated with the response. In this case the <div> around our message text.
Finally, the green area is the business logic. It evaluates the submitted value and displays an appropriate response. In real-world JSFTemplating applications, you'd likely put this in Java code in a handler such as is done by the built-in "setPageSessionAttribute" handler in this example. But to keep the example simple (1 page), JSFTemplating's condition processing was used instead.
That's it! The user types something in the box, clicks the button, an Ajax request displays the response. The beauty is its simplicity. You work with Ajax requests on the server-side exactly as you would with any other JSF action. You glue it together with a small amount of JavaScript which, as you can see, gives you \*lots\* of flexibility on what is sent to the server, what is updated, etc. So your next step is to look at your own application and see where you could improve your user experience by doing partial page updates, or other asynchronous checks. The plumbing is in place... now use it!
JSFTemplating: https://jsftemplating.dev.java.net
DynamicFaces: https://jsf-extensions.dev.java.net/nonav/mvn/features-ajax.html
Tuesday May 16, 2006
Scripting in JavaServer Faces Technology BOF @ JavaONE
By paulsen on May 16, 2006
Friday Apr 14, 2006
BluePrints AJAX JSF Components
By paulsen on Apr 14, 2006
The BluePrints team has added some of the AJAX JSF components they have recently built. These components serve as good examples of strategies to combine AJAX and JSF together via reusable components -- and since they are components, they're easy to plug in to your application. Check them out at: https://blueprints.dev.java.net/ajaxcomponents.html
Monday Apr 03, 2006
Jive Forums Gold 5 on GlassFish
By paulsen on Apr 03, 2006
In an earlier entry I wrote about Security Manager woes when I attempted to install Jive Forums from Jive Software. Many applications (including Jive Forums) require privileges that may be considered "unsafe" in some environments -- Java's security manager allows administrators to control the settings ensure applications don't write to disk, send email, load unsafe classes, etc. However, this can get in the way when a user attempts to install trusted software, yet the server doesn't have security properly configured (and it's not easy to properly configure).
GlassFish has changed. It no longer enables the security manger by default. This is consitent with most other application servers and makes deploying applications (such as Jive Forums) much easier. Here's what I had to do when installing Jive Forums Gold 5 on GlassFish (build 42):
- Download Jive Forums files (server + license file) (Find it on: Jive Software's web site)
- Copy jiveHome to a new directory
- Copy the license file into the new diretory; name it jive.license
- Start GlassFish (i.e. asadmin start-domain)
- Go to GlassFish's Admin GUI: http://localhost:4848
- Applications -> Web Applications -> Deploy
- Upload "jiveforums.war"
- Select options (defaults are fine)
- Go to the application (I clicked on "Launch" button in Admin GUI)
- Message states jiveHome is not set. Type in the correct path (the new directory from step 2). Click the update button.
- Click continue (everything should have a "success" check now).
- Choose embedded DB (you may want something else), click continue.
- Click continue (db should be configured properly).
- I picked "Default" for authentication. Click continue.
- Setup your email server settings. Click continue.
- Setup your admin user. Click continue.
- Setup should be complete, click "Login to Admin Tool"
- I logged in as "admin" / "<admin-password>"...
Have fun!
Tuesday Feb 21, 2006
Use Java EE 5 Faster with Screencasts
By paulsen on Feb 21, 2006
Sun released a beta version of Java EE 5 today. It includes many cool ease-of-use features, but rather than read about them, why not watch them?
- Goto (http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/index.jsp)
- Click Get Java EE 5 SDK Resources
- Choose one of the Screencasts (like: ).
To take it for a spin, visit the download page. Or get even more involved: goto the GlassFish site and start contributing!
Have fun!
Recent Posts
- The Ajax Experiment
- JavaOne Hidden Treasure
- Looking for Opinions...
- Introducing GlassFish Performance Tuner
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- Where will you be at JavaOne?
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I thought I'd try to put together an interstellar empire Guild...
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I thought I'd try to put together an interstellar empire Guild...
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Have you "liked" a post today?
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Eighty-fourth session
11 - 29 July 2005
the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights*
- Eighty-fourth session -
Communication No. 1192/2003
Alleged victim: The author
State party: The Netherlands
Date of communication: 6 August 2002 (initial submission)
The Human Rights Committee, established under article 28 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Meeting on 25 July 2005
Adopts the following:
Factual background
2.1 In 2000, the author, a tax consultant, used a company car made available to him by his employer, an international accounting and consulting firm, to commute between his home, which is located more than 30 kilometers away from his workplace, and his office in Amsterdam on at least three days a week. He also used the company car (with a catalogue price of 44,590 NLG) for private purposes for a distance exceeding 1,000 kilometers in 2000, subject to payment of an amount of 4,566 NLG to his employer.
2.2 Under Article 42 of the Dutch Income Tax Law (1964), employees using a company car for private purposes must add 20 percent of the catalogue price of the car to their taxable income. By Act of 4 July 1990, amending the Income Tax Act, this amount was increased by an additional four percent of the catalogue price in cases where an employee commutes between his or her home and workplace on at least three days a week for a distance exceeding 30 kilometers (one way). At the same time, employees using a company car were exempted from any increase of the taxable income, if they could prove that their private use of the car does not exceed 1,000 kilometers per year. (2)
2.3 By decision of 15 July 1998 concerning tax year 1994, the Supreme Court found that the additional increase of the taxable income by four percent of the catalogue price in cases where the private use of a company car exceeds 1,000 kilometers per year was contrary to article 26 of the Covenant. It considered that the extent of the private use did not constitute reasonable and objective criteria, which would justify discrimination between commuters, who use a company car for more than 1,000 kilometers per year and commuters who use it for less than 1000 kilometers per year. However, it found that to make the relevant provision of the Income Tax Act inoperative would result in unequal treatment of employees without a company car, who frequently commute between their home and their workplace for distances exceeding 30 kilometers, and for whom the tax allowance for commuters had been capped for environmental purposes by the Act of 4 July 1990. The only way to ensure equal treatment of all employees frequently commuting for a distance exceeding 30 kilometers would be the non-application of all provisions on the capping of the tax allowance for commuters introduced by the Act. Such a consequence would, however, be disproportionate under article 26 of the Covenant. The Supreme Court concluded that it was for the legislator rather than the judiciary to remove this inequality, and that the fact that a new Income Tax Bill was soon to be submitted to Parliament showed that the legislator was in the process of resolving the problem.
2.4 Subsequently, the Government rejected the advice of the Council of State to bring Dutch tax legislation into conformity with article 26 of the Covenant by 1999, arguing that it was preferable to withhold any measures until the adoption of a general reform of the income tax legislation. On 1 January 2001, a new Income Tax Act entered into force, removing the disputed provisions of the Act of 4 July 2000.
2.5 On 11 April 2001, the tax inspector of 's Gravenhage assessed the author's tax declaration for 2000, adding an amount of 10.701 NLG (24 percent of the company car's catalogue price of 44,590 NLG) to his taxable income and deducting the 4,566 NLG that the author had paid to his employer for the private use of the company car. The net addition to his taxable income was thus 6,135 NLG.
2.6 On 24 January 2001, the Supreme Court dismissed the complaint filed by another taxpayer, who claimed that the tax legislation should have been amended earlier. It considered that it was not unreasonable for the legislator to postpone the amendment of the legislation in order to resolve the issue as part of a general tax reform.
The complaint
3.1 The author claims that the fact that his taxation for the year 2000 was higher than that of other employees commuting with a company car on at least three days a week for a distance exceeding 30 kilometers (one way), merely because his private use of the car exceeded 1,000 kilometers, amounts to discrimination. The extent of his private use of the car could not justify his unequal treatment, given that other long-distance commuters using a company car equally polluted the environment, even if their private use of the car did not exceed 1,000 kilometers per year.
3.2 The author argues that the fact that another group of taxpayers, i.e. employees using other means than a company car to commute between their home and workplace on at least three days a week for a distance exceeding 30 kilometers (one way), had been adversely affected by the capping of the tax allowance for commuters, does not change the discriminatory nature of his taxation.
3.3 For the author, the combined effect of the application of the discriminatory provisions of the Act of 4 July 1990 to his case and of the Supreme Court's decision not to interfere in similar cases, despite its obligation under article 2, paragraph 1, to respect and to secure the rights recognized in the Covenant, amounts to a violation of article 26 of the Covenant.
3.4 The author adds that the absence of any remedy, other than a merely declaratory judgment of the Supreme Court which did not require the legislator or the executive to take any immediate measures to respect the Covenant, breached his right to an effective remedy under article 26, read in conjunction with article 2, paragraph 3, of the Covenant.
3.5 On exhaustion of domestic remedies, the author submits that a complaint to the Supreme Court would have been futile, in the light of its jurisprudence on similar cases, and that no other remedies are available to him under Dutch law.
3.6 The author claims compensation for the pecuniary damage suffered because of his discriminatory taxation. He argues that he should have been treated equally with the privileged group of taxpayers which had been exempted from the additional four percent increase of the taxable income. The difference between the income tax paid by him in 2000 and the tax that he would have paid, had he been treated on an equal footing with the privileged group, should be reimbursed to him with statutory interests.
State party's observations on admissibility and merits and author's comments
4.1 On 23 October 2003, the State party submitted its observations on the admissibility and merits of the communication. While conceding that the author was not required to exhaust domestic remedies in the light of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on similar cases, the State party argues that his claim under article 26 of the Covenant is inadmissible ratione personae under article 1 of the Optional Protocol (3) and that, in any event, his claims under articles 26 and 2, paragraph 3, of the Covenant are unfounded.
4.2 The State party submits that the Supreme Court's finding that the relevant provisions of the Act of 4 July 1990 were incompatible with article 26 of the Covenant, together with its instruction that the legislator amend these provisions, afforded the author adequate redress. Another option to remedy this incompatibility would have been to treat all taxpayers equally. However, the imposition of identical charges on commuters, whose private use of a company car did not exceed 1,000 kilometers per year, would only have resulted in higher taxation of this group, without improving the author's situation. The State party concludes that the author cannot claim to be a victim within the meaning of article 1 of the Optional Protocol and that his claim under article 26 is therefore inadmissible ratione personae.
4.3 Subsidiarily, the State party submits that the increase of the author's taxable income by an additional four percent of the catalogue price of the company car did not violate article 26. The purpose of the Act of 4 July 1990 was to reduce commuter traffic, especially by car, for environmental reasons and in order to decongest road traffic in a densely populated country, the Netherlands. The legislative process leading to the adoption of the Act involved a careful examination of the available options to achieve this purpose. The proposed amendments were considered necessary to spread the financial burden equally among taxpayers, i.e. to ensure that employees frequently commuting by company car between their home and workplace for a distance exceeding 30 kilometers (one way) would make a financial sacrifice comparable to the capping of the tax allowance for commuters using their own car or public transport.
4.4 The State party argues that the small group of employees frequently commuting by company car for a distance exceeding 30 kilometers (one way), who bother to keep all records of the use of a company car to prove that their private use does not exceed 1,000 kilometers per year, is so insignificant that it cannot serve as a justification for abandoning the important social objective pursued by the imposition of charges on other long-distance commuters. Reasons of legal certainty militated against removing the privilege enjoyed by this group retroactively.
4.5 For the State party, accepting minor inequalities when elaborating a coherent body of tax legislation to strike a balance between the interests of different groups of taxpayers does not amount to a violation of article 26, if such inequalities only have negligible financial consequences for those concerned.
4.6 With regard to article 2, paragraph 3, the State party submits that objections to tax assessments can be lodged with the Dutch tax and customs administration, whose decisions are subject to appeal to the Court of Appeal and to further appeal on law to the Supreme Court. The author had been provided an effective remedy, as the alleged inequality of treatment had been ascertained in national proceedings and was later removed by the legislator. Insofar as the author claims that the Supreme Court's jurisprudence precluded him from recovering the amount by which his tax assessment exceeded the taxation of other commuters, whose private use of a company car did not exceed 1,000 kilometers per year, the State party argues that article 2, paragraph 3, does not guarantee a specific outcome of the remedy in place.
5.1 On 7 January 2004, the author commented on the State party's submission, rejecting the argument that one possibility to remove the inequalities from the Act of 4 July 1990, i.e. elimination of privileges enjoyed by a certain group of taxpayers, would not have changed the applicant's situation. He argues that, ultimately, any discrimination can be undone by downgrading the position of the group that is treated more favourably. This was, however, not intended by the Covenant and impracticable in cases where definite tax assessments could not be increased retroactively.
5.2 For the author, the mere finding of incompatibility of a law with article 26 cannot remove the underlying discrimination, if no effective redress is granted to victims of such discrimination. The subsequent removal of inequalities from the legislation through the tax reform of 1 January 2001 did not change the fact that the Covenant had been and continued to be violated in the meantime. By ratifying the Covenant the State party had undertaken to respect and ensure its guarantees with immediate effect.
5.3 While conceding that the reduction of commuter traffic was a legitimate policy objective, the author argues that this purpose cannot be pursued by discriminatory measures. He argues that the tax law reform of 2001 refutes the State party's argument that the inequalities in the Act of 4 July 1990 were necessary to elaborate a coherent body of tax legislation. Consistency with article 26 could have been ensured by increasing the taxable income of all commuters using a company car, who live more than 30 kilometers from their workplace, by four percent of the car's catalogue price, irrespective of the extent of their private use of the car. It was irrelevant in this context whether such an increase could have been introduced retroactively and whether it would have had any beneficial effect for the author. The limited size of the privileged group could not justify the unequal treatment, given that under tax legislation, privileges are frequently granted to a small group of taxpayers only.
5.4 The author rejects that his discriminatory taxation was negligible, as the extra amount of tax paid by him totaled some 450 US$ in 2000. Unjustified distinctions were unacceptable, even if their financial impact was limited. Nor should distinctions in the field of tax law be accepted more easily than in other fields of legislation, bearing in mind the Committee's jurisprudence that article 26 prohibits discrimination in any field regulated and protected by public authorities.
Issues and proceedings before the Committee
6.1 Before considering any claim contained in a communication, the Human Rights Committee must, in accordance with rule 93 of its rules of procedure, decide whether or not the communication is admissible under the Optional Protocol to the Covenant.
6.2 With regard to the author's claim that the increase of his taxable income by four percent of the catalogue price of the company car used by him, merely because his private use of the car exceeded 1,000 kilometers, was discriminatory, in violation of article 26 of the Covenant, the Committee considers that the author has not substantiated how his different treatment was based on one of the prohibited grounds of discrimination enumerated in article 26, or on any comparable "other status" referred to in that article. (4) Consequently, this part of the communication is inadmissible under article 2 of the Optional Protocol.
6.3 With regard to the alleged absence of an effective remedy, the Committee recalls that for purposes of the Optional Protocol, article 2 of the Covenant can only be invoked in conjunction with a substantive Covenant right. It notes that the author invoked article 2, paragraph 3, in conjunction with article 26 of the Covenant. However, his claim under article 26 being inadmissible because of the failure of the author to establish its applicability, it follows that his claim under article 26, read in conjunction with article 2, paragraph 3, is likewise inadmissible. The Committee therefore concludes that this part of the communication is inadmissible ratione materiae under article 3 of the Optional Protocol.
7. Accordingly, the Human Rights Committee decides:
a) That the communication is inadmissible under articles 2 and 3 of the Optional Protocol;
b) That this decision shall be communicated to the State party and to the author.
[Adopted in English, French and Spanish, the English text being the original version. Subsequently to be issued also in Arabic, Chinese and Russian as part of the Committee's annual report to the General Assembly.]
* The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the present communication: Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Mr. Nisuke Ando, Mr. Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati, Mr. Alfredo Castillero Hoyos, Ms. Christine Chanet, Mr. Maurice Glèlè Ahanhanzo, Mr. Edwin Johnson, Mr. Walter Kälin, Mr. Ahmed Tawfik Khalil, Mr. Rajsoomer Lallah, Mr. Michael O'Flaherty, Ms. Elisabeth Palm, Sir Nigel Rodley, Mr. Ivan Shearer, Mr. Hipólito Solari-Yrigoyen, Ms. Ruth Wedgwood and Mr. Roman Wieruszewski.
1. The Covenant and the Optional Protocol thereto entered into force for the Netherlands on 11 March 1979.
2. Pursuant to the then applicable Section 6 of Article 42 of the Income Tax Law, traffic between a commuter's home and workplace was not considered as private use.
3. The author refers to the European Court's jurisprudence in Auerbach v. The Netherlands, Application No. 45600/99, Decision on admissibility adopted on 29 January 2002 and Arends v. The Netherlands, Application No. 45618/99, Decision on admissibility adopted on 29 January 2002.
4. See Communication No. 273/1988, B.d.B. et al v. The Netherlands, decision on admissibility adopted on 30 March 1989, at para. 6.7.


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