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30. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebbosschaert Jun 2, 2010 2:46 AM (in response to dknox)
Ah ok, so the javax.servlet is actually embedded in your jetty bundle, I thought it was pulled in as a transitive dependency. The maven <exclusions> only get rid of separate transitive maven dependencies.
What you might do is specify a
on the _exportcontents to specify that you want the first javax.servlet.*. At least that should get rid of the split package warning - I never tried it there but it should work... Obviously you should make sure that the one you want comes first on the classpath, but looking at the dependency tree this should already be the case.
There is more documentation on how to handle split packages in the original bnd (which underpins the maven-bundle-plugin) manual. You can find that here: http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd
31. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 3, 2010 11:13 AM (in response to thomas.diesler)
Just commited the changes to the itest/pom.xml. The test fires but fails because the Framework is not initialized. Learning about the Framework today, and intend to have the test succeeding this evening.
32. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 3, 2010 3:01 PM (in response to dknox)
I need some advice regarding which version of jboss-osgi-spi to use. There was a commit to the project in mid-April that indicated that osgi-spi version is supposed to be 1.0.6.
However, updating the HttpServiceTestCase that was provided, it appears that it is in between 1.0.6 and 1.0.7-SNAPSHOT. Which version of jboss-osgi-spi should I be using?
33. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebthomas.diesler Jun 8, 2010 3:46 AM (in response to dknox)
The current master uses SPI 1.0.7-SNAPSHOT (http://github.com/jbosgi/jbosgi-http/blob/e37e5b4939060f48b3bf610c7d93518ce37c02ef/pom.xml)
Could you please push your work to github or provide us with some other means to review what you are doing?
The recent posts talk a lot about jetty, which is off the point IMHO. The dependency on PaxWeb needs to get replaced by an equivalent dependency on JBossWeb. When PaxWeb goes so do its transitive dependencies on Jetty and the servlet API. As Remy pointed out correctly the dependency on servlet needs to be the one that is used by the supported target container (i.e. JBossAS6)
Please start with ripping out PaxWeb and build an implementation of the HttpService that delegates to JBossWeb.
To do this work you initially don't even need to start an OSGi framework. Instead, you can write isolated unit tests that verify the correct behaviour of your HttpService implementaion. Have a look at Mockito (http://mockito.org/) if you need to mock OSGi functioanlity (i.e. the registry). However, first please show me test cases that exercise your HttpService on top of JBossWeb. In a later step we can review packaging and integration issues.
34. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 8, 2010 10:47 AM (in response to thomas.diesler)
>> Could you please push your work to github or provide us with some other means to review what you are doing?
I have been. There was a commit on Jun 4 and this morning.
>> The dependency on PaxWeb needs to get replaced
This is great news. I was under the impression that pax-web-jetty-bundle was a required dependency for jboss-osgi itself. Thanks for clearing that up. I am very happy to rip it out.
>> As Remy pointed out correctly the dependency on servlet needs to be the one that is used by the supported target container (i.e. JBossAS6) It's already using JBossWeb as Remy recommended. The following was added to the bundle pom when Remy made the recommendation.It was committed to git.
>> Instead, you can write isolated unit tests that verify the correct behaviour of your HttpService implementaion.
I started this way. When the work was moved to the git structure it appeared that maven was the mandated environment. Apparently I'm being too sensitive about process. I added my build bits to git this morning. HttpServiceFactory.java contains the driver. It's good that I know not to put too much emphasis on maven. Much better progress can be made without dealing with it.
35. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebthomas.diesler Jun 8, 2010 12:03 PM (in response to dknox)
I don't see your commits. The last commit was made by me on 09-May-2010.
The build system must be maven (i.e. not ant)
36. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 8, 2010 12:54 PM (in response to thomas.diesler)
I don't have an idea what the problem might be. The url in my .git/config is:
I use 'git commit -a' and when needed git add <blah>
$> git log:
commit e3d3fe7219010e773168ac04078b9a066c414f6b
Author: dknox <email@example.com>
Date: Tue Jun 8 09:10:22 2010 -0600
Ripped pax-web out. Not needed.
commit ce1ae7ce78bdc1a803a0fa5fe8d1ef99ed55de9d
Author: dknox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Tue Jun 8 08:32:50 2010 -0600
Adding build directory and build.xml to git.
commit 177d989608f45ab1bb20d856f9186811022d92f4
Author: dknox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 09:06:28 2010 -0600
test target is working now. Test will fail, however:
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.69 sec <<<
org.jboss.test.osgi.http.HttpServiceTestCase Time elapsed: 0 sec <<< ERROR
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Framework not available. Use createFramewor
Starting today to learn what the 'framework' requires.
commit b7eab7264670c0a9fbcca1b715fdb68f364a2a68
Author: dknox <email@example.com>
Date: Tue Jun 1 12:28:42 2010 -0600
Worked out several problems with the maven install and compile targets. Both
commit 8879c7d3055409c42fae7eda40757e6f0653d330
Author: dknox <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Fri May 28 14:00:14 2010 -0600
Checking in before a long weekend. The maven build works now. The problem
isn't fixed. I changed the order of the dependencies so the jbossweb
package is in the classpath before the jetty package. Still need to fix the
problem. But at least I can work around it for now.
As to maven - I would prefer to make some real progress, get the unit test working, and integrate maven later. I realize the build system is maven, but any progress I made trying to integrate maven was too slow. I'd rather do the maven integration after I've got the unit test running and stable.
If the maven integration is required now - then I need someone who knows maven to help me understand how to resolve the constraints that currently break it during the test phase. The Ant dependency is part and parcel of org.apache.catalina.tools. The Eclipse dependency comes from the jsp compiler - again part and parcel of the container. The classes that use eclipse.core.resources and eclipse.core.runtime do so in methods that are not called.The same is true of the Ant component - not used by the container.
Given the pom.xml in itest, how do I tell maven to ignore those dependencies during the test phase?
I was successful trimming Ant during the build phase by using !org.apache.tools.ant. in <Import-Packages> of the bundle/pom.xml. I belive the osgi-http bundle is close to right. But I haven't been able to resolve the constraint error when running 'mvn test'. I haven't been able to resolve the transitive dependency on org.eclipse..core also during test.
37. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebthomas.diesler Jun 9, 2010 7:13 AM (in response to dknox)
> git add ..
> git commit
only adds stuff to your local repository. Please read some basic git documentation (e.g. http://progit.org/book) to learn about http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html and http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-pull.html
The build system is maven because it handles dependencies (also transitive ones) and ensures good productivity. Every jboss commiter is asumed to know how to build, test, install and deploy using a mvn.
Please push your stuff online, I can then fix the mvn build for you. The easiest way for you to get started with an online git repository is to create a github account (https://github.com/signup/free) and fork the jbosgi-http repo. Make sure you don't loose your local commits ;-)
When you have done that, I can pull from your repo and help you out with your mvn trouble.
38. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 9, 2010 6:18 PM (in response to thomas.diesler)
Should be all set - email@example.com:dknox/jbosgi-http.git
I ran 'mvn install' under bundle which was successful and 'mvn test' under itest which will build but will not succeed. I know why it doesn't succeed. I'm not yet sure how to fix it. But am plowing through maven plugin docs for a clue.
39. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 9, 2010 9:32 PM (in response to thomas.diesler)
I've figured out the constraint error. Adding org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs to the org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra property appears to have done the trick. I haven't pushed this change yet.
Now I'm working on the next one:
org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Unresolved constraint in bundle jboss-osgi-common [2]: package; (&(package=org.osgi.framework)(version>=1.4.0))
Don't know where the 1.4.0 comes from. The org.osgi.core in Import-Package specifies 1.5.
40. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebthomas.diesler Jun 10, 2010 4:01 AM (in response to dknox)
I outlined the general direction here
Lets discuss specific issues on individual threads.
41. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jun 18, 2010 4:29 PM (in response to thomas.diesler)
A note describing what progress has been made:
* Added BundleAdapter to help access resources and properties
* JBossWebWrapperTest::testStartServer is working - the server initialization is pretty much hard coded however.
* JBossWebWrapperTest::testServletAccess - not working right now. Very close though and working through Context initialization details before addServlet will succeed.
* Added SimpleServlet to bundle/test. It is an annotated servlet.
Next Steps:
* Complete work on testServletAccess
* integrate server.xml and get rid of hardcoded values
42. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebthomas.diesler Jun 21, 2010 7:30 AM (in response to dknox)
AS mentioned How to progress on jbosgi-http, JBossWeb should have a set of public interfaces that exposes its functionality. In your test cases, you should bind to those interfaces only. There should be no dependency on JBossWeb implementation details.
If you do this, we can later very easily turn the JBossWeb implementation into an OSGi bundle that exposes its functionality through a set of interfaces that are registered with the framework as services.
In case JBossWeb should not have such a well defined public API, you can start creating one in the jboss-osgi-http project under its own namespace (e.g. org.jboss.web). I say it again because it is important - jboss-osgi-http should not bind to anything else, but what is defined in that namespace. We want to decouple jboss-osgi-http and jboss-web right from the start. JBossWeb cannot be embedded into jboss-osgi-http as we currently do with Jetty.
43. Re: Mapping HttpService to JBossWebdknox Jul 12, 2010 10:56 AM (in response to thomas.diesler)
This is a status update. I need to concentrate on tomcat5 production builds this week (Jul 12). Some of this has not been committed or pushed into git because my local copy is broken at the moment.
* Start and Stop server is working from test. Configuration is not complete though. Before registerServlet, registerResources, and unregister can work, the container needs to be fully configured.
* Created public interface (under bundle and not internal) that extends HttpService for control of JBossWeb. It extends osgi.service.http.HttpService and contains additional public method signatures for initialization, start, and stop. The implementations in internal implement the interface.
* Integration of jbossweb configuration bits - server.xml, initialization properties, context.xml, catalina.properties. My current strategy is to use an internal wrapper to query for values using Bundle::getResource. Some configuration bits that I have questions about is setting CATALINA_HOME. The server needs a base directory to deploy to.
* Complete integration of configuration artifacts. Start/Stop a fully configured JBossWeb.
* Test and gill out registerServlet, test and fill out registerResources, and test and fill out unregister.


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Further clarification on the Quake 1 vs 2 performance oddities:
P6 CPUs (other than the PII overdrive) and all 3 versions of the VIA C3 core run Quake 2 significantly faster than the same processors do Quake 1 (in 640x480 software mode), while P5 and all other Socket 5/7 processors perform significantly worse in Quake 2 than 1.
The gap between K6 and K6-2 as well as K6-2 and K6-3 (and 2+) also widens with Quake 2 compared to 1. (and the big cache Xeons and Ppro have more consistent advantages over their small-cache and half-speed cache counterparts too -the Celeron vs Pentium II gap also narrows a lot more than in Quake I) In this respect at least, it seems like Quake 2 favors fast L2 caches (even small ones) more than Quake did. The gap is also wider between Nehemiah and both Samuel and Ezra cores for Quake 2 (and while Samuel II and Ezra have L2 caches of similar size to Nehemia, given the cache performance benchmarks, it's very slow, perhaps even clocked at half-speed like the FPU supposedly is on those models) and the gap between the L2-cache-less Samuel core and the others further demonstrates the L2 cache affinity for Quake 2.
Performance among Socket 5/7 CPUs alone seems to be roughly comparable proportionally for both Quake 1 and 2, but Quake 1 just seems to have some odd affinity for Socket 7 in general. (at least among the motherboards tested) The 6x86/MII seems to loose less ground than the others in Quake 2, and there might be a few other shifts like that (don't see any at a glance though), but overall relative performance is still much closer than with non-S5/7/SS7 chips compared. (and no GL Quake to compare with Quake 2's OpenGL performance)
Hmm, though come to think of it, offering an integer based geometry pipeline patch for GL Quake (or Quake MiniGL), or even an MMX geometry pack might have been really helpful for accelerating non-pentium CPUs at the time. Though given the timing, MMX would've worked better for Quake 2 unless GL Quake and Quake 2's open GL engine were similar enough to carry a patch over to both without too much effort. A plain integer math pack might've been less useful given the less dramatic, depending on the CPU. (K5 would probably see the biggest improvement) Working entirely in 16-bit fixed-point math might also cache a bit better and speed things up that way.
I haven't seen mention of any game doing that without making the entire breadth/standard engine integer-oriented in general, and I don't think I've heard of any using MMX based geometry engines. (even though fixed-point DSPs or vector processors are what game consoles were using at the time -probably because the P55C's MMX performance -and basic integer math performance- were too weak to be compelling alternatives to its FPU) And yeah, 16-bit resolution introduces more errors and potential artifacts than 32-bit fixed or floating point implementations, but for most stuff at the time it was good enough and worth the performance gain ... outside of the pentium at least.


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Marine scientist champions Blue Carbon
Seagrasses could be the oceans best-kept secret, and a multibillion-dollar marketplace, for mitigating global climate change, according to a study published this week.
Seagrass meadows act as a massive carbon sink, capable of storing as much carbon as forests. Theres only one problem: due to poor watershed management and declining water quality near shorelines, seagrasses are disappearing at alarming rates.
James Fourqurean, who has devoted his career to seagrass research, recently completed a study with a team of scientists from across the world that provides the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses. The research, Seagrass Ecosystems as Globally Significant Carbon Stocks, was published Sunday in Nature Geoscience.
Theres not a lot of public recognition of seagrass. People just dont have appreciation of the habitat, Fourqurean said. In South Florida, we find ourselves surrounded by one of the largest seagrass meadows on earth. Seagrasses help protect our coastlines, they provide habitat for the seafood we eat, and they keep our water clear. They were valuable before we knew of the carbon stored in them.
The potential for the worlds seagrasses to be used as carbon offset credits is an initiative referred to as Blue Carbon. The idea is simple. A carbon credit is a generic term for any tradable certificate or permit representing the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxide. Carbon credits are part of national and international efforts to mitigate the growth of greenhouse gases by capping emissions and allowing regulated sources that emit greenhouse gases to buy credits for emissions. That money is used to preserve the worlds resources that naturally store carbon dioxide.
The United Nations REDD program (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) already exists to protect the earths forests. But seagrass meadows are capable of storing as much carbon dioxide as any forest. Currently, there could be as much as 73 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide already being stored in the worlds seagrass meadows.
Jims Blue Carbon research embodies the very mission of the School of Environment, Arts and Society at FIU, said Kenneth G. Furton, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. His work offers a realistic, viable solution for a global problem and could help mitigate the effects of global climate change.
In the past year, Fourqurean has made presentations in Washington, D.C.; Paris, France; Bali, Indonesia; Brisbane, Australia; and Costa Rica. Recently, he testified before the European Union Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on the importance of the carbon stored in coastal ecosystems for climate change mitigation. Fourqurean conducts his research as part of FIUs National Science Foundation-funded Long Term Ecological Research program and currently studies seagrasses off the Florida coastline, Bermuda and Shark Bay, Australia.
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NCIS Season 8 Quotes
We don't have to grow up all at once, and we are who we are. But there is such a thing as balance and it can be achieved while being true to our own nature.Ziva
Tony: It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ziva: Why would anyone out a needle in a sack of hay anyways?
McGee: Not a hacker, either.
Ziva: How do you know?
McGee: My firewall hasn't been penetrated.
Tony: Lubricant helps, but everybody has dry spots.
(Ziva laughs)
Ziva: I did not know you were a pool dolphin, Tony.
Tony: Pool shark. And yes, I was.
(After McGee has opened a parcel containing a blow up doll)
McGee: Erm...real funny, Tony.
Tony: (Laughs) You think I did this?
Ziva: I would not put it past you.
Tony: Guys! Come on, a little credit, please. I have grown past this kinda sophomore thing. I mean, who would do something so...genius! McGee with a plastic girlfriend! Congratulations, Tim! She's very sweet.
McGee: The receipt's got my credit card information on it. It must be some kind of mistake.
Ziva: I would cancel your credit card.
McGee: Right now, all I need to do is figure out how to deflate this thing.
Tony: Oh that's easy, there's always a button right here on the back of the neck...
(Tony realises what he has just said)...there's no reason I should know that.
McGee: It's rude, Tony. I called you four times!
Tony: Well, there's two things wrong with that statement. One, we're not dating. And two, you know I don't take calls from anyone, especially you, after 7pm. You forget, I have a life.
McGee: What's your point?
Tony: My point McGee, party of one, is that you were leaving me messages evidently about some kind of case file?
McGee: Yeah, one that I needed you to sign.
Tony: Which you could have waited until this morning for? Give it to me. (McGee hands Tony the file) See that? Now all I have to do is sign it! (Tony signs the file) Look at that. Signing John Hancock. Just kidding, Anthony DiNozzo. (Tony hands McGee the file, which McGee snatches out of his hands)
(Tony, McGee and Nick enter the elevator)
McGee: You know you still owe me that fifty bucks.
Nick: Talk to my mom, bro.
Tony: In fact, I was champion of my Baltimore precinct in the late '90s.
Ziva: (laughing) 'Late '90s?' That makes you sound...
Tony: What, old?! Don't say old!
Ziva: I didn't say it, you did.
(Tony, McGee and Nick Miller decide to go to GameStop)
Nick: (To Ziva) Smoking hot chick! Can she come too?
(Ziva smiles and looks at Tony)
Tony: Cool it, Nick.
(Tony drags him towards the elevator as Ziva laughs)
(Gibbs and Ducky are in Autopsy, looking over Sgt Wooten's body.)
Ducky: These bruises and lascerations could be consistent with somebody hitting a target repeatedly.
Gibbs: The target was the wife, Duck. I wouldn't blame her if she did this.
Ducky: Nobody would. But that doesn't make it any less of a crime.
(Tony introduces Nick Miller, the boy whole charged McGee's credit card illegally)
Tony: Tim McGee, meet Tim McGee.
Nick: 'Sup dude.
McGee: Hello. (Looks at Tony) I don't get it.
Tony: Well, Tim, there are two kinds of identity thieves. There's the kind you never know and there's the kind that knows you so well that they're aware you're not home from 7am to 10pm.
McGee (To Nick) You're Mrs Miller's kid right? Nick?
Ziva: Who is Mrs Miller?
Tony: It's McGee's landlady, holder of the keys. She also has a bad back.
Ziva: Oh.
McGee: It was you! You stole my identity, you sent me an inflatable girlfriend! You know I'm down almost ten grand!
Nick: Dude, it's fraud and you're only liable for like... fifty bucks.
Tony: Yeah dude.
McGee: (To Nick) Why? Why are you doing this to me?
Nick: You're always doing the same thing. Go to work, come home, go to work again. You even order the same take-out food every single night.
McGee: Not every night.
Nick: Dude, yes! You gotta start living. You're too young to act so old.
(McGee looks at Tony who starts laughing)
Tony: You're welcome.
(Gibbs walks in on Tony and McGee with the blow-up doll)
Tony: Morning, Boss!
McGee: This isn't what it looks like, Boss.
Gibbs: Well, what is it, Tim?
McGee: Erm...a joke...I think. A really bad, practical joke.
Gibbs: I'm not laughing. (Gibbs turns and heads for his desk) Lose your gal-pal. (To everyone) Grab your gear. Got a dead Marine in Springfield.
(McGee tries effortlessly to hide the blow-up doll as the rest of the team head for the elevator)


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Vienna Energy Forum 2015 – high-level networking
This year's Vienna Energy Forum will once again focus on everything to do with sustainable energy. Representatives from the worlds of politics, business, academia and the civil society will be coming to Vienna from all over the world for the event, which is being held for the fourth time.
Held every two years, the Vienna Energy Forum facilitates intense dialogue about the possible contribution sustainable energy systems can make to global development at the same time as providing a platform for exchanging ideas rooted in practice.
This year's forum will be held from 18 to 20 June 2015 in Vienna's Hofburg Palace and is dedicated to the topic "Sustainable Energy for Inclusive Development". International opinion leaders from politics, business, research, civil society and representatives of financial institutions from the energy sector will be in attendance.
As part of the high-end conference, ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA will host the workshop "Business Partnerships to foster effective cooperations" on 19 June 2015 from 12:00 to 13:15. The presentations will showcase successful, innovative business models to improve energy supply in developing and emerging countries. Companies and experts from international aid institutions will discuss various forms of cooperation. After all, cooperation with the private sector is becoming ever more important in the international aid sector in order to find win-win solutions.
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Wang Shu is drafting a new architectural blueprint for his country. His vision is deceptively simple—China's new buildings should look uniquely Chinese
WANG SHU HAS ACQUIRED A SHADOW. Walking through the construction work-shop at the Xiangshan campus of the China Academy of Art, the 49-year-old Chinese architect is being trailed at a distance of 30 yards by a young man with a meager profile and a stunned expression. Wang teaches in this building; he also designed it, as he did all of the buildings at Xiangshan. He knows his way around and moves quickly. The young man is in no way deterred by this.
Past studios and offices, architect and pursuer wend their way down hallways that turn sharply or end abruptly in stairwells. The plan of the building is complex, irregular, so it's easy to get lost—"an important part of education," jokes Wang. Corridors narrow then widen, opening onto atria with brick floors and creeping vegetation that make them look like the exercise yards of an extremely old and prestigious prison. Metal catwalks connect this structure to neighboring ones huddled close around it. "Like a village," Wang says.
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Coming down a ramp from one building to the next, at last the young man catches up. He introduces himself—a visitor on tour. He comes from a small and rather poor prefecture far away. He wants a picture with the professor. Wang obliges.
Later, a colleague of Wang's will remark, "He was not famous in China before the prize." The shutter snaps, the young man shakes his hand, and as he walks away, Wang produces a cigarette from a red packet of Chunghwa's—"Mao's cigarette," he notes. He smiles indulgently: These encounters happen more and more frequently, but it is clear that the designer does not exactly find them diverting.
They're just a consequence of being the most important architect in what is fast becoming the most important country in the world.
The Pritzker Prize, the Nobel of the design profession, comes with a $100,000 honorarium and a cloudburst of media attention. If an architect is lucky, most of the coverage will not be about how somebody else deserved it more.
When Wang Shu won the prize this past February, he was in Los Angeles, about to give a lecture at UCLA. Architect Neil Denari, a professor at the school and Wang's host, was with him that afternoon. "His cell phone was just buzzing," Denari says. "Chinese journalists at three in the morning calling him and calling him." The news was leaked to the Internet a day before the official announcement was made. "He didn't look like a guy who was thinking, This is what I've been waiting for, to be world famous!" adds Denari. "He looked a little bemused."
He does that. Wang comes from a background unusual among architects of his stature, having served a nearly decade-long hitch working with traditional craftsmen in the construction industry. This self-imposed apprenticeship between architecture school and professional life has left a lasting impression, and the mentality of the work site—of making payroll and meeting delivery schedules—has bred in him an allergy to design-biz backslapping.
The honoree's seeming indifference shouldn't be taken to mean he thinks the prize jury was wrong. "He isn't so falsely humble as to think he's done nothing," says Denari. "He has confidence in his work." With a scant team of seven associates, Amateur Architecture Studio—the practice Wang founded with wife, Lu Wenyu, in 1997—has turned out a succession of acclaimed projects, from civic buildings to private homes to exhibition pavilions, all of them in China. He can be diffident, but he knows he's on to something. "My way is new," Wang says, with the gruff candor of the building foreman.
That attitude, and that experience, are at the very heart of what's new about Amateur Architecture. The culture of building in China is radically different from that of the United States, and Wang is steeped in it. His work has been described as China's "new regional style." That could be one name for what Wang Shu is doing. More broadly, Amateur's catalog of projects may be nothing less than a prospectus for a new national architecture for China.
"It's about craftsmanship," Wang says. Knowing what Chinese builders can do, he is able to produce buildings that can only be built in China, and he makes his workers an integral part of the process. Just a short walk from the studios of the China Academy of Art, crews are at work on a new Amateur-designed hotel for campus visitors. Clambering from floor to floor on slender bridges of bamboo, shirtless workers set wooden roof joints by hand. These are skilled laborers, and they are Wang Shu's people. At Xiangshan, an exterior passage is bordered by a perforated wall in dappled bricks. Most of it was devised by the men who put it there— Amateur architects put up a sample section and then stepped back, leaving the builders to do the rest.
The most startling demonstration to date of this communal craft-based approach is the Ningbo Museum of Art. Located in the eponymous seaside town in Zhejiang Province, the building, completed in 2008, houses 330,000 square feet of exhibition space given over to local history and culture: regional woodworking, wax figures in life-size dioramas. Up close, the structure's exterior seems a vast pile of mottled slate, tile and brick, which is not far from what it is; the architects and their construction team salvaged most of the materials from demolition sites in and around Ningbo.
Appearing from some angles like a blocky citadel, from others like a strange gray galleon, the museum has an air of the uncanny, as do many of Amateur's projects. Wang practices Chinese calligraphy every morning, and he explains that there is no single ideogram in the language for the word "architect." "In traditional Chinese architecture, there was no architect," he says. "Only the scholar talking to the craftsman." If his creations look somehow anonymous or organic—as though they were the work not of a single designer but of a whole culture—that would be very much in keeping with the history of building in China.
History is very much on Wang's mind. He doesn't use e-mail. He doesn't drive. He and Lu, both from the remote northwestern province of Xinjiang, chose to live and base their office in the city of Hangzhou, rather than cosmopolitan Shanghai two hours away, because of the lakeside city's age-old connection to Chinese literature and art. At night, they go out to a teahouse in the hills above the town; their friends are poets, musicians, and all together they argue about ancient Chinese landscape painting. During a lull in the conversation, Wang points to an antique earthenware pot sitting on a lacquered stand. He likes the soft glow reflected in the glazing. "I don't like the light that's just on the surface," he opines. "I like the light that comes from within."
Wang's whole mode of living seems to bear out the feeling behind projects like Ningbo—that these buildings are somehow part of a mind-set indelibly, authentically Chinese. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels (winner of WSJ. Magazine's 2011 Innovator Award in architecture) is an admirer, and he sees Wang as acting on a key architectural imperative: that buildings should engage with climate and history. "Architecture should look different in different cultures," he says. "Local vernacular styles have to respond to a given set of conditions and available materials." Taking its cues from the walls, streets and alleys of the historical city, Wang's work belongs to its element in a way buildings seldom do, especially in China. Surely no nation needs it more.
TO VENTURE A SWEEPING GENERALIZATION, all serious architecture built in China in the 21st century can be classed into one of two categories. The first is typified by a trend everywhere in evidence: Glassy residential towers imported fresh from Miami and New York, alongside iconic opera houses and museums by international starchitects, are becoming more and more common in larger cities. The buildings that have emerged from this Westernizing tendency aren't necessarily awful—they're merely unconvincing. Against the unconvincing, there is only the second category of architecture: Wang Shu's. "People say they want China to be strong," says the architect. "And who is strong, they think? America!" Recoiling at the urge to imitate, Wang's work is a declaration of China's architectural independence.
But the same quality that makes Amateur's buildings so fiercely original can also make them oddly forbidding. Confronted with a project like one of the firm's teahouses on Zhongshan Road in Hangzhou—a jagged, oblong loop of concrete and stone—the Western visitor can balk at its unalloyed Chinese-ness. Perhaps one has to be steeped in Chinese history to fully understand this architecture: to feel, as its creator does, "the relation between tradition and contemporary time."
Then, again, perhaps not. The Pritzker jury seems to have understood, and for once the rest of the design world agrees. The only carping that's accompanied the announcement has been the charge in some quarters that Lu should have been named a corecipient. (On-site at the new hotel near Xiangshan, it's an easy case to make: Lu is the one who wrangles with the workmen, mollifies the client and rustles up the associates.)
Wang himself, immersed as he is in Chinese tradition, has also sought out the work of American and European modernists. Amateur registers that influence strongly, as in their 2006 Ceramic House in Jinhua, whose coarse textures and blocky massing recalls the work of Louis Kahn. The firm is even beginning to con- template their first project outside China.
Most significantly, the audience that struggles the hardest with Amateur's buildings isn't Western—it's the Chinese. "They've never seen anything like this," says Wang. Locals weaned on a steady diet of middling modernism scarcely know what to make of these projects, and many fail to recognize the correlation between the stones of Ningbo and the traditionally built environment of their own country. Amateur's real mission is less nationalistic than pedagogical, teaching the Chinese people about themselves.
In China today, that project carries with it a potent critique. The car ride between Hangzhou and Ningbo shows how much the country is being trans- formed by the government's headlong embrace of hyperdevelopment. Outside the window, a Buddhist monastery clings to an artificial cliff, the hillside shorn away by mining and quarrying. "Chinese people are like trees without roots," says Wang. "They're floating." Amateur's work is an ongoing attempt to shore up the collective foundation.
It is hardly a job for amateurs (which only goes to show how canny Wang and company really are). In a nation where an artist like Ai Weiwei can be imprisoned as a political dissident, and where Western architects reckon with the moral implications of taking commissions from a nondemocratic regime, the camera-shy professor is now in the spotlight, trying to reconnect people with their shared humanity. He is hopeful. "When the people really touch the material and feel the real atmosphere, they get awakened," says Wang. "They get a memory about some place; they think, I know it, deep in my heart, my memory. The people, they know this. And they love it."
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Shopping in ThailandAndrew Mason
Many items can be purchased inexpensively in Thailand, as long as you know where to look. Reasonable copies of Billabong shorts, Nike trainers and hundreds of other products can be bought for surprisingly low prices. However, quality varies widely, so have a close look before you buy.
Thailand operates under a bartering system, which means that goods sold by street vendors in markets or in some shops are flexibly priced and you can get a very good deal if you know how to haggle powerfully and politely. Like many aspects of Thai culture, bartering is an intricate system that is easy to underestimate. The trick is to let the vendor make the first offer then ask 'Can you make a discount?' A good benchmark is to offer half the quoted price. Be firm, but make sure that you smile and possibly make a joke – if you are seen as too pushy or aggressive you will not be taken seriously and many traders will refuse to deal with you. Remember not to start to bargain unless you're serious about buying. Also remember that a difference of a few baht may not really make much difference to you, but it may be a big deal to the vendor.
The best bargains can usually be found at large markets. Chatuchak Market in Bangkok is a great place for bargain hunting, as is the night market in Chiang Mai.
Most towns have at least one large local market, where you can find everything from kitchen utensils, cheap clothes, bags and baubles at incredibly cheap prices.
Night markets are also a great place to shop. Usually opening around 5 pm and often packing up as late as 11 or 12 pm, these are also a great place to find a cheap meal, buy fruit and people watch.
Thailand's Floating Markets are much photographed and provide an interesting appeal for tourists. The most visited floating market is Damnoen Saduak, which is also the largest. Most tour operators in and around Khaosan Road offer tours to Damnoen Saduak. However, these days the market is very crowded and sells mainly souvenirs and other tourist items. For a more authentic experience, head to the Bang Khu Wiang Floating Market, which is open daily from 04:00 and 07:00, or the Taling Chan Floating Market, which is open on weekends until around 2 pm.
If you're looking for cheap technology, Panthip Plaza in Bangkok has it all. With 5 floors filled of every type of technological gadget and gismo you could possibly dream of, it is easy to spend half a day here. Remember to barter as most prices are negotiable and seem to be cheaper on the upper floors.
Siam Square in Bangkok is the place to go if you like large shopping centres. There are a wide range to choose from, including MBK, Paragon and Siam Discovery.
Big C is another shopping center chain and can be found all over Thailand in towns, cities and even quite small villages. As well as having its own store, which usually spans several floors, you can usually find dozens of other stores, including international stores such as Boots and The Body Shop.


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Democratizing Policymaking Online: Liquid Feedback
Liquid Feedback
This week, Beth Noveck kicked off her talk at the Personal Democracy Forum conference by reflecting on the the MoVimento 5 Stelle (M5S), Italy's 5 Star Movement, and their use of Liquid Feedback (LQFB), a software for policymaking and political discussion. After its initial deployment by the German Pirate Party, the software has gained a lot of popularity over the past few years, and most recently it has been adopted by several M5S groups in regions such as Lombardy, Lazio and Sicily. True to their principles of participatory democracy and free access to the internet and information (and in response to criticism about how they run their business), it is no surprise that these two parties have been searching for a platform to engage their members more directly. But is Liquid Feedback the answer?
Liquid Democracy
Before we get into Liquid Feedback, lets introduce the concept of "liquid democracy."
Think about how you would vote on where to go to dinner when hanging out with five of your friends. The five of you would sit around the living room, discuss what each of you are in the mood for and then vote on a place that would suit most people's cravings. This is a very simplified version of a direct democracy. However, what if instead of 5 friends, you're hanging out with 30 friends? You might not remember the last time you had to discuss and agree on where to eat with 30 people, and that would be because as a group grows larger, discussions get longer and reaching a consensus gets harder. Also consider that Billy and Jane are from out of town, and what do they know about local food?
Direct democracy — one person one vote — does not scale well. The voters might not always be knowledgeable on the matter being discussed. That is why today, many governments use a form of representative democracy, where people vote on representatives they trust who will represent them when voting on policy decisions.
As most voters can attest, however, your representatives may not have expertise on every topic and won't always share your same opinions on every single issue. We don't want Billy and Jane choosing the restaurant.
Liquid democracy tries to take the best of both direct and representative democracy by allowing the voter to decide whether to delegate her vote to a representative on a given issue or simply vote on her own. Say you're an expert on education, wouldn't it be great if you could have your representatives vote for you on all health care issues, but when it came down to education issues, you could cast your own vote? This is what liquid democracy attempts to do. This video, by German designer Jakob Jochmann, provides a great introduction to liquid democracy. Liquid Democracy would have been unworkable prior to the Internet but is becoming a reality today and ready for prime time testing.
Liquid Feedback – How it works
Liquid Feedback is an open-source software created to facilitate Liquid Democracy. It enables policy discussions and decision-making with this kind of proxy voting system. It allows participants to propose policy, revise anyone's proposals or propose alternatives, and vote on issues themselves or by proxy (someone else vote's for them).
Here's how it works:
Any member can propose policy. For the proposal to be taken to a revision period, it needs to gather 10 percent quorum within a certain amount of time. Once in the revision period, any member can set up an alternative proposal and over the next few weeks members vote up or down on the available proposals until a winner emerges. The voting is where it gets interesting. A member can decide to vote individually on an issue, but it would be a daunting task to read and go through every policy paper available.
Liquid feedback allows you to give your vote to someone you trust would vote on your side of the issue. Additionally, the person you delegate your vote to can also give his vote, along with all of his votes, to someone else. Very quickly, people could gain a lot of voters and hence a lot of power, but the system allows members to reclaim their votes at any given time, so if someone wants to keep their voters, they need to keep constantly working for them. "We want effective people to be powerful and do their work, but we want [the grassroots] to be able to control them," says Ingo Bormuth, the spokesman for the Berlin Pirate Party.
Liquid Feedback allows members to delegate their votes in three ways. Global delegation is where members give their vote to a representative on every issue. The second is subject delegation, where people give their vote on specific subjects only, like health or education. The last one is issue delegation, where a member only entrusts another member with their vote on specific issues.
The software does have its limitations. In its mission statement, Liquid Feedback says it is an "online system for discussing and voting on proposals in an inner party (or inner organizational) context and covers the process from the introduction of the first draft of a proposal to the final decision." This means that the software is only intended to be used to decide on policy papers within a party, and is not meant to replace a legislative body's core function. Germany's Pirate Party is one of Liquid Feedback's largest adopters. For now, the software is only used by the party to finalize position papers that then inform decisions at the party's conventions. Some members would like to see it used to make decisions within the party, but for now, it seems the software is still in its trial period for the Pirate Party. This doesn't mean only few users have tried out the platform. Almost 10,000 pirates are LQFB members. Yet for now, use of the platform is limited to condensing results and bringing them to a vote at the party's convention.
There also seems to be a small tech literacy barrier. As is typical of open-source software, the interface and user experience are far from award-winning. Political science professor, Christophe Bieber, says the interface may be "seen as 'nerdy or geeky' by many new recruits, especially when compared with the familiar mechanisms of wikis and collaborative text editors. It has an interface only a developer could love". If Germany, with a high digital literacy might find it a little challenging to gather participants, countries with low digital literacy might be long ways away from adopting such technology.
In a NY Times op-ed, Steve Kettmann wrote that on some level, Liquid Feedback "is a gimmick, an effort to get young people interested and involved in the humdrum of German politics, outside the campaign season and even off line. Whatever it is," Kettmann writes, " it works: late last month some 1,300 members trekked to the small northern city of Neumünster to elect a new executive board." Simon Weiss, a Pirate politician in the Berlin Parliament is more sceptical of the idea that the platform might be attracting voters. Weiss says that while the average person might know the Pirate Party is a grassroots movement with a strong internet presence, many are still unfamiliar about LIquid Feedback.
If Liquid Feedback did draw in a crowd, it didn't last. Last month, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, reported that the party's popularity had sunk from 13% to 3% in polls, and four out of five Germans do not believe the party will gain the 5% vote necessary to gain a seat in German parliament. If Liquid Feedback did attract young audiences a year ago, it seems the hype was not sustained through this year and the Pirate Party has major issues to address.
Whether this platform can scale or not is difficult to say, and we might have to wait to see more results. Christophe Bieber says the data on the system's performance remains scarce, so it might be too early to tell. Simone Weiss says Liquid Feedback has always been "intended as a prototype for a future version of democracy" and they are currently experimenting with it themselves. But Liquid Feedbacks problems might be evident already. By October 2012, Der Spiegel wrote "In North Rhine-Westphalia, meanwhile, the Pirate Party's parliamentarians have used the software to gather general opinions on just two issues so far. A poll of Pirate Party voters there concerning a proposed law to regulate circumcision showed … 20 votes in a federal state with nearly 18 million inhabitants. It's a grassroots democracy where no one is showing up to participate." It seems that we cannot know for certain whether the software can scale or not because we have not seen a large enough participation by LQFB members to know for sure.
Democratizing Lawmaking
While no new technology has made it really possible to democratize lawmaking at a large scale, people have certainly been trying. Liquid Feedback isn't the only software trying to democratize political processes and lawmaking. Germany's federal parliament is using Adhocracy for a commission on digital policy and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has been another similar platform for its party think tank.
Liquid Feedback and M5S
In the latter half of last year, the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) decided to adopt the platform in response to criticism on its lack of internal democracy. Because M5S has a much larger representation in Italy's senate and chamber of deputies than the Pirate Party does in it's own country, we might see much wider adoption of the platform in Italy than in Germany. Here is where we might see whether the platform can scale. The issue of security might prove to be the bottleneck in the scaling process. In order to ensure that a person can't create multiple accounts, vote more than once, or cheat the system, people have to go through a verification process before they are allowed to join. The M5S movement has tens of thousands of members, and verifying all of them and allowing them all to participate in discussions might be a huge undertaking.
However, the platform has been already adopted at a regional level. Recently, the M5S chapters from the regions of Lombardy and Sicily were able to elect candidates for the presidency using only Liquid Feedback. So far few issues are being discussed in the Lombardy and Sicilian Liquid Feedback portals, presidential candidates being the major one (although the Lazio LQFB seems a bit more active). Yet the platform is still in its infancy and given the success in its ability to chose candidates online, we might expect more issues to be brought up via LQFB.
Online platforms that attempt to democratize political processes such as policy making are still in their infancy. Liquid Feedback is only one such experiment and we can expect to be hearing more of it in the news in the coming years. While it's shortcomings won't necessarily mean its demise, if Liquid Feedback doesn't evolve to solve the challenges of security, scalability, and user experience, then it might end up fading away with all its promises of liquid democracy.
You can try out a test version of Liquid Feedback here and browse the Pirate Party's version here. For a full list of M5S instances of LQFB, click here.


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By: Laura Martinez, Multichannel News
A growing number of cable operators are realizing that ethnic markets — specifically the fast-growing Hispanic segment — are key to taking on satellite-TV providers who've been much more successful at attracting multicultural audiences.
"Let's be honest: The satellite guys have owned this space," Comcast vice president of content acquisition David Jensen said April 2 at a Broadcasting & Cable/Multichannel News-hosted panel discussion at The Cable Show in Washington, D.C. "For 10 years, they have been beating cable by a more than 2-to-1 margin in the competition for the ethnic subscriber."
Jensen took the breakfast as an opportunity for the first time to issue a call for cable operators to take back the ethnic segment.
When AlternaTV said it would launch three additional channels on Comcast's Hispanic lineup in Chicago earlier this month, the general manager of the Mexico-based programmer referred to the MSO's expansion of its Spanish-language offering as "groundbreaking."
"By launching this new programming tier, Comcast is making a bold, positive move for the Hispanic community," AlternaTV general manager Leonardo Alvarado said of Comcast's addition of Ecuavisa, Telemicro Internacional and AYM Sports. "[Comcast is] recognizing how important the Hispanic consumer is and are giving them the attention they deserve."
The new channels from AlternaTV were just Comcast's latest move to beef up its offering in the largest U.S. Hispanic markets it serves. The 24.6 million-subscriber MSO expanded its Hispanic lineup in Chicago, nearly doubling its previous offering to 60 of the most popular Spanish-language networks and adding 125 on-demand programming choices.
But Comcast is not alone. Time Warner Cable last year launched El Paquetazo in Southern California and is focusing on expanding its digital package in New York, Texas and other important Hispanic markets. And Cablevision Systems continues to run an aggressive TV campaign, pitching the Optimum Triple Play en Español.
Cox Communications revamped its Hispanic offering in 2004 with the launch of Paquete Latino, which allows subscribers to buy the Hispanic digital tier in combination with basic cable at a more-competitive $29 a month for about 30 channels, instead of the $55 Cox used to charge for seven to eight channels.
"However, we didn't lower our price by doing so," said Cox Communications vice president of acquisition marketing and sciences Tony Maldonado. "Because we allowed the consumer to bypass expanded basic, we allowed the price point to drop."
Price is a thorny issue for cable operators, which have a much-higher price structure than satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network. For Cox and others, the best way to compete with satellite is with value, not price.
"Our price needs to be competitive," said Maldonado. "But the best value is not always the lower price."
The strategy of offering additional services around a tier has worked so far. According to Cox, more than half of the households who purchase Paquete Latino end up acquiring other services, including digital phone and high-speed Internet. Overall, said Cox, growth of its Hispanic products has outpaced its general-market offerings in high-speed Internet, digital phone and bundle sell-in by 120%.
As the Hispanic population continues to grow, moves to revitalize cable's Spanish-language offering are not limited to just the five largest operators.
"Cable has not been vigilant enough to attract multicultural programming and take away [market share] from Dish Network and those guys," said Glenn Goldsmith, vice president of programming at Middletown, N.Y.-based Mediacom Communications, the No. 8 U.S. MSO with about 1.3 million basic subscribers.
In markets such as Nogales, Ariz., which is more than 90% Hispanic, Mediacom is for the first time adding a few Hispanic networks to its family cable package at no additional cost. To promote the service, Mediacom has hired Spanish-speaking personnel to attend grassroots and other community-oriented events and walk would-be customers through its offering.
"If you try to attract certain people there you also have to make sure your staff can communicate with those audiences," said Goldsmith. "The Hispanic market is going to be very important to our future growth."


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- Counters – typically used for counting the number of pulses of an input during a specific time period. Counters have a memory so they can store previous events. Counters must be synchronous or asynchronous. There are six common counters which are as follows: binary ripple counters, ring counter, BCD counter, decade counter, up and down counter and frequency counter.
- DIN Rail time switches – control the on and off positions for lighting, heating and cooling equipment. They serve the same function as any timer switch but are mountable on to a DIN rail.
- Timer light switch – an automatic light-switch that can be used to control the timing of certain lights at certain times. Timer light switches are available in multiple types which control lighting based on movement, time of day and ambient lighting light levels.
- Mechanical counters – operate via mechanical components and count the following types of change: revolutions, rotations, strokes and how many times a button has been pushed. They typically consist of a series of discs mounted on an axle, with the digits 0 through 9 marked on their edge.
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Mecklenburg County handles all assessment, valuation, billing and collection of property taxes for the Town of Matthews. Property taxes are levied on land, buildings, motor vehicles, boats, trailers, and income-producing personal property. The amount of tax is based on the assessed value of the property and the tax rate. If you have questions about the assessed value of your property visit the County Assessor's page on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government's website.
Information on land, buildings, other real estate and motor vehicles registered in North Carolina is kept on computer records by the county tax office and automatically billed for property tax purposes. The Town, along with citizens, has access to this information through computer records at https://www.mecknc.gov/TaxCollections/Pages/Home.aspx
Residents are required to report to the county tax office by Jan. 31 each year their taxable personal property (such as boats, business equipment, etc.) Motor vehicles need not be reported to the County for property tax purposes if already registered with the State. A resident of North Carolina who owns a motor vehicle here is required to register the vehicle with the NC Division of Motor Vehicles and to pay Town and County taxes on the vehicle.
Property tax bills for real estate and personal property are billed and mailed to all property owners in September each year. This bill includes Town of Matthews and Mecklenburg County taxes. Property taxes must be paid by Jan. 5 to avoid penalties.
Property taxes are collected for the Town's beginning July 1 each year. For example, the Town property taxes billed in September of 2015 to be paid by Jan. 5, 2016, will pay for services from July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016.
The Town of Matthews property tax rate for 2019-2020 is .28 cents per $100 of taxable value.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—Stocks fell, congressional leaders squabbled and the fiscal cliff drew implacably closer.
"How we get there, God only knows" said House Speaker John Boehner, referring Friday to the increasingly complicated attempts to beat the January 1 deadline and head off the perilous combination of across-the-board tax hikes and deep spending cuts that threaten to send the economy into recession.
Progress was invisible one day after House Republican rebels thwarted Boehner's plan to prevent tax increases for all but the nation's million-dollar earners. And while neither House is expected to meet again until after Christmas, officials in both parties said there was still time to prevent the changes from kicking in with the new year.
Yet they pointedly disagreed which side needed to make the first move.
"It's time for the speaker and all Republicans to return to the negotiating table," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Late Friday, Reid was meeting with Obama at the White House, and Obama was to make a statement.
He said that, for now, Boehner should allow a vote on legislation that would block all tax increases except for individuals making more than $200,000 and couples making $250,000—the position that Obama carried through his successful campaign for re-election.
Reid said it would pass the House with votes from lawmakers from both parties, and, separately, some Democrats said it was possible similar legislation may yet be launched in the Senate.
Moments later, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Democrats had spent all day yesterday defeating the legislation in the House—even though Boehner himself said it had been deep-sixed by GOP opposition.
Countering Reid's offer, McConnell said the Senate should pass legislation extending tax cuts at all income levels and requiring a comprehensive overhaul of the tax code. Beyond that, he said, "Look: It's the president's job to find a solution that can pass Congress. He's the only one who can do it."
Rhetoric aside, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 121 points in what analysts said was a reaction to the events in the capital.
The developments marked yet another baffling turn in a week that began with news that Obama and Boehner had significantly narrowed their differences on a plan to erase the cliff. Both were offering a cut in taxes for most Americans, an increase for a relative few and cuts of roughly $1 trillion in spending over a year. Also included was a provision to scale back future cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients—a concession on the president's part as much as agreeing to higher tax rates was for the House speaker.
GOP officials said some senior Republicans balked at the emerging terms.
Boehner stepped back and announced what he called Plan B, legislation to let tax rates rise on incomes of $1 million or more while preventing increases for all other taxpayers.
Despite statements of confidence, he and his lieutenants decided late Thursday they were not going to be able to secure the votes needed to pass the measure in the face of opposition from conservatives unwilling to violate decades-old party orthodoxy never to raise tax rates.
Officials said as many as two dozen rank-and-file Republicans had made it clear they would oppose the bill, more than enough to send it to defeat given unanimous Democratic opposition.
At his Friday morning news conference several hours later, Boehner dismissed suggestions that he was concerned the turn of events could cost him his speakership.
"No, I am not," he said.
"While we may have not been able to get the votes last night to avert 99.81 percent of the tax increases, I don't think—they weren't taking that out on me," Boehner said of the Republican rank and file. "They were dealing with the perception that somebody might accuse them of raising taxes."
Boehner also said that last Monday he had told Obama he had submitted his bottom line proposal.
"The president told me that his numbers—the $1.3 trillion in new revenues, $850 billion in spending cuts—was his bottom line, that he couldn't go any further."
That contradicted remarks by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, who said on Thursday that Obama has never said either in private or in public that this was his final offer. He understands that to reach a deal it would require some further negotiation. There is not much further he could go.
Associated Press writers Andrew Taylor, Alan Fram and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this story.
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Well, this is a new one: an Ohio woman was arrested this weekend for spraying sheriff's deputies with her breast milk.
According to 10TV, the deputies arrived at a banquet hall in Delaware, Ohio after receiving reports of a domestic dispute. They found Stephanie Robinette locked in her car — her husband told them that she'd gotten drunk and attacked him before locking herself inside. When the deputies tried to get Robinette out of her car, she "proceeded to remove her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk." Despite this unusual strategy, deputies were eventually able to arrest her — she's now charged with domestic violence, assault, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Among other things, the incident reveals how hard it is to be in law enforcement sometimes — not only do you get sprayed with some lady's milk, but then you have to make a straight-faced statement about it. Says Sheriff Walter L. Davis III (whose parents probably named him before they ever knew he'd be involved in something so undignified as a milk attack), "This is a prime example of how alcohol can make individuals do things they would not normally do." We certainly hope using her boobs as weapons isn't just all in a day's work for Robinette. In any case, they're not very deadly ones — says 10TV, "No injuries were reported."
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It's the last few days for the last of its kind.
A Different Light Bookstore, the last of a once-proud family of gay literary spots and a beacon of homosexual life in the Castro, will be out of business by the end of the month.
The window displays have for-lease and half-off signs, but there isn't much to take half off of. The back shelves are bare, and the front shelves are scattered with books and porn.
"As far as we know, there are no LGBT bookstores left in the state, at least ones selling new books," says Hut Landon, executive director of the Northern California Booksellers Association.
A store manager, who declined to give her name, said the closing date will be determined by sales, but she confirmed that "we're definitely closing by the end of April." Steve Murphy, the landlord's real estate agent, said that any day could be the last.
At least once a week for 23 years, Gerard Koskovich has stopped into the bookstore on Castro Street. As a curator of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History Museum, he is a field archivist, and this storefront has been the place to find ephemera.
"From the moment it was founded, this store became a cultural center for the emerging queer community in the late 1980s," says Koskovich, while standing out front, just down from the marquee for the Castro Theatre. "Events, exhibitions, panel discussions, basically any important gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender author you can think of who published in English gave a reading at A Different Light at some point."
Sales move online
More than the chain stores, it was online booksellers that wiped out the gay bookstores, along with all other specialty bookstores, says Landon: "Amazon lists everything, they sell it cheaper, and they don't collect sales tax."
According to Koskovich's research, 2011 marks the 45th anniversary of the opening of the first gay bookstore in America, the Adonis in the Tenderloin. Then came the Walt Whitman Bookshop, and it wasn't that long ago that there were two gay bookstores on Castro Street and one around the corner on Market. They are all gone.
Koskovich agrees with Landon on the reasons for the demise of gay bookstores. Younger readers in particular buy their books online, he says.
'Creating community'
"I find it troubling that we no longer have physical places to discover the books that matter to us and the people who share these interests," he says. "I'm not sure that online bookstores create the same opportunities for creating community and bringing about social change."
The Castro store opened in 1985, as a sister to the original A Different Light, which opened in the Silver Lake District of Los Angeles in 1979. Business partners Norman Laurila and George Leigh came down from Toronto to open the store, which was named after a gay science fiction novel by San Francisco author Elizabeth Lynn.
Laurila's life partner, Richard Labonte, took over as manager in Los Angeles when Laurila moved to New York to open the Greenwich Village store in 1983. "We preferred to call it a 'bracelet,' " says Labonte, reached by phone in British Columbia, where he now lives. "The word 'chain' sounds so Barnes and Noble."
The Castro branch opened in the location of the Obelisk, a high-end design store. Labonte became store manager there in 1986.
Center for activism
"It became a social center," Labonte says. "There were other gay-oriented stores in the Castro, but ours was a store that used books to draw people in. We had art shows and reading groups. We organized the first two Outwrite Conferences of gay writers in the country." The first one, in 1990, attracted 1,000 participants and was held at a downtown hotel.
The stores became so well known nationally that when a liberationist and aspiring author named Tommi Avicolli Mecca came out from Philadelphia in 1991, he had a job lined up at A Different Light.
"In those days the Castro was a lot more activist-oriented," says Avicolli Mecca, who worked at the store for 10 years. "ACT UP had its meetings in the backyard, and the store was very much about the community in addition to selling books."
One of the hallmarks of the place was that it would accept just about any form of work on paper, either for sale or giveaway. Another hallmark was the author events. Avicolli Mecca held three here, though the biggest crowd anyone can recall was for Olympic diver Greg Louganis, whose appearance to promote his autobiography drew a line around the block.
"The place was crammed with books, and they had an open policy on taking things on consignment," Koskovich says. "Any local author artist, or author, a person who was making a zine or self-published book or greeting cards could come in and consign a few. So it was a store where you were constantly discovering the cutting edge, the things that were being created."
They're all gone
Now, all three of the Different Lights will have disappeared.
"It's a real loss for our culture in general because GLBT stores, as with most specialty stores, curate their stock and selection," Landon says. "You knew when you went into a Different Light that you really had experts who were culling through all the GLBT stuff out there and choosing it for readers.
"If they're gone, you've lost that expertise that they brought to bookselling."
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Globalization does not only happen from above. Public opposition to corporate-led globalization is on the rise world wide. Grassroots movements and communities around the world are increasingly working together to stem the tide of corporate-led globalzation. At CorpWatch, that's what we mean when we refer to "grassroots globalization."
Activists Take to the Street
In 1999 more than 50,000 people take to the streets in Seattle in overwhelmingly non-violent protests against the WTO, which is effectively shut down for a day. These protests, combined with a strong stance by developing nations, causes the WTO talks to collapse.
During 2000 and into 2001, Seattle-inspired protests bring people into the streets to protest the other institutions that form globalization's infrastructure: The World Bank, the IMF, and the World Economic Forum (see protest chronology below).
Activists Take to the Internet
Advanced computer and communications technology facilitates corporate-led globalization. But activist groups also use the Internet to build grassroots globalization.
1980s: Greenpeace establishes one of the first global communication networks for its international staff.
1990: The Association for Progressive Communications is born, creating a global network of activist groups online, well before the web is in vogue.
1994: The day NAFTA comes into force, the Zapatista rebellion emerges in Chiapas, Mexico. Using the Internet to communicate their message, the Zapatistas emerge not only as advocates for indigenous rights and democracy in Mexico, but also as global critics of "neoliberalism" and globalization.
1996: CorpWatch is established and quickly becomes a leading Internet portal for progressive information on transnational corporations and globalization.
1997: Activists, coordinating a global campaign through the Internet, force the OECD to shelve plans for a Multilateral Agreement on Investment, which would have opened up the global economy to corporate investment beyond that contemplated in the WTO agreements.
1999-2000: Coinciding with the anti-globalization protests a series of on-line Independent Media Centers spring up to cover events from Seattle to Prague.
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In 1997 and again in 1998 activists organizing in the United States successfully pressure Congress to defeat "fast track" negotiating authority for international trade and investment agreements.
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In 2000, Business Week conducts a poll, finding that:
72% of Americans say business has too much power over too many aspects of American life.
74% of Americans say big companies have too much political influence.
95% of Americans agree that US corporations owe something to their workers and the communities in which they operate-and should sometimes sacrifice some profit for the sake of making things better for their workers and their communities.
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October 1993: More than 500,000 people protest the Uruguay Round of GATT-the precursor to the WTO-in Bangalore, India.
September 1995: Tens of thousands of protesters rock the World Bank Annual meeting in Madrid.
November 1999: More than 50,000 people use non-violent tactics to shut the World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting down for a day in Seattle, USA. Protests continue for five full days. The talks collapse.
January 2000: Thousands protest a gathering of corporate CEOs and world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
April 2000: Twenty thousand people take to the streets in non-violent protests against the World Bank and IMF in Washington DC.
April 2000: Massive, nation-wide protests against water privatization in Bolivia force American corporate giant Bechtel to withdraw from the country. Plans for privatization are put on hold.
May 2000: A peaceful demonstration calling for debt relief and an end to IMF conditions ends in violence and arrests of 63 protestors, including 15 church leaders in Nairobi, Kenya.
September 2000: Thousands blockade and effectively shut down the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, Australia.
September 2000: Nine thousand demonstrators participate in mainly non-violent, colorful protests at the World Bank and IMF Annual Meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
November 2000: More than five thousand people participate in a colorful protest in front of the global climate negotiations in The Hague, Netherlands, calling for decisive international action on global warming.
January 2001: Thousands of non-violent protestors are attacked by police at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
January 2001: Designed to counter Davos, the World Social Forum draws thousands of people representing 120 countries to workshops, plenaries and peaceful marches in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
January 2001: The WTO announces its next meeting will take place in Qatar-a country known for its repression of public dissent.
January 2000-January 2001: Crops are uprooted in Europe, India and Brazil in various protests against the globalization of genetically engineered food.
February 2001: After two weeks of massive, nation-wide demonstrations and an activist occupation of the IMF offices in Quito, Ecuador, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) claims victory as the President of the country bows to their demands to lower gas prices and subsidize poor rural sectors.
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"We are very excited with this year's schedule," said head coach Chris Bono. "We'll be competing all over the country, including duals against Pac 12 and Big 10 opponents."
SDSU will make its season debut by hosting the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open (Nov. 3). Other open tournaments on the docket include the Cyclone Open (Nov. 16), the UNI Open (Dec. 14) and the highly competitive Southern Scuffle hosted by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Jan. 1-2).
The Jackrabbits will open their dual season with three consecutive home outings in November, including alumni weekend vs. Drexel (Nov. 9), Nebraska (Nov. 24) and North Dakota State (Nov. 30). Other home duals on the schedule include Air Force (Jan. 26) and Northern Illinois (Feb. 14).
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