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Disturbance and the resilience of coupled carbon and nitrogen cycling in a north temperate forest. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116(G4). 2011.
Fire effects on temperate forest soil C and N storage. Ecological Applications. 21(4):1189-1201.. 2011.
Harvest impacts on soil carbon storage in temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 259(5):857-866.. 2010.
Contribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition to net primary productivity in a northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39(6):1108-1118.. 2009.
Impacts of elevated N inputs on north temperate forest soil C storage, C/N, and net N-mineralization. Geoderma. 153(1-2):231-240.. 2009.
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LulzSec Shuts Down, Ends Hacking Campaign
LulzSec, the hacker group that has hacked the CIA, U.S. Senate, Nintendo, Sony and others, has surprisingly announced that it is disbanding.
LulzSec, short for Lulz Security, claims that it intended to only operate for 50 days as an attempt to revive the AntiSec movement, which is opposed to the computer security industry.
"For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could," the hacker group said in its announcement. "All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love."
The release continues on, explaining that the organization is not tied to its LulzSec identity and has succeeded in bringing back the AntiSec movement. The group, in fact, encourages others to take up its cause. "We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us... Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve."
As its final parting gift, the group released one last data dump with data allegedly taken from AT&T, AOL, Disney, Universal, EMI and the FBI.
The group has had its way with corporations and governments for the last two months. It took down the CIA's website, hacked Sony's servers, released sensitive documents from the Arizona state government and attacked the U.S. Senate's website. While a suspected member of LulzSec was recently apprehended, the group claims he was not its leader.
The end of LulzSec doesn't mean the end of hacker attacks, of course. Long-standing hacker group Anonymous is still around, and we bet other groups will form in the wake of the group's disbandment. And with 277,000+ followers and a captivated audience, we bet LulzSec will come back in one form or another. We also doubt its disbandment will stop authorities from searching for its masterminds.
What do you think of LulzSec and its AntiSec mission? What do you think will happen next? Let us know what you think in the comments.

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WASHINGTON - Most people in the Medicare reform fight argue about how much patient benefits and doctor and hospital reimbursement rates must be cut to deal with the burgeoning federal budget deficit.
UnitedHealth Group's Simon Stevens talks about saving more than half a trillion bucks over the next decade by doing neither.
"It is very important that the debate does not become a stylized arm wrestle between those two alternatives," Stevens, chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform & Modernization, said in an interview last week.
The UnitedHealth Center has entered the Medicare deficit discussion in a surprising place. As think tanks and business groups line up on the side of raising eligibility ages or other austerity measures, the country's biggest private health insurer suggests ways to save the country's biggest public health insurance program without cutting services.
A new report from the UnitedHealth Center outlines ways to change Medicare from a fee-for-service program that pays doctors and hospitals per procedure to a results-driven, managed-care model that coordinates payments, offers greater rewards to medical professionals who give quality care and reduces the costs to senior citizens who make the healthiest choices.
The blueprint for a more efficient government program derives mainly from what Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth has seen administering health care for giant private companies that self-insure. Private success stories need to drive public reforms, said Stevens, a Brit who served as health policy director for Prime Minister Tony Blair.
"If we don't manage to generate improved quality and savings from this kind of approach," he said, "then it will ... fall back to either benefit cuts or more constraints on doctors' and hospitals' payments from Medicare and Medicaid, which in time will make it harder to find providers who will care for them."
By instituting a modernization program, the UnitedHealth report said the U.S. could save $542 billion in federal Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next decade. A move from fee-for-service to case management in traditional Medicare would save $202 billion from 2013 to 2022, UnitedHealth said.
Another $153 billion in savings derived from streamlining the treatment and payment systems for people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. These so-called "dual eligibles" make up a small percentage of Medicare recipients, but they are covered by what Stevens called "a patchwork quilt of funding streams and services and all kinds of disconnects" that, unchanged, will cost the government $5 trillion in the next decade.
Health improvement programs such as diabetes prevention and weight control could save $53 billion, UnitedHealth said.
Other specific programs include better hospital discharge planning to prevent unnecessary, expensive readmissions and putting nurse practitioners in nursing homes to help treat residents and keep them from going to the hospital for minor ailments.
The idea of overhauling traditional Medicare stands in stark contrast to another Medicare reform plan announced last week. The Business Roundtable, a group representing more than 200 of America's most powerful CEOs, including UnitedHealth's Stephen Hemsley, never mentioned changing traditional Medicare.
Rather, it proposed to solve Medicare's looming financial crisis by raising the eligibility age from 65 to 70 and offering more government-paid access to private insurance plans, such as UnitedHealth's own Medicare alternative.
Stevens acknowledged "lots of advantages" to privately administered senior health care. But he pointed to "a standoff between those who think you have to preserve Medicare exactly as it was in 1965 vs. those who think the only answer is [privatization]."
Having the think tank of a big corporation talking about improving delivery without reducing benefits "is a very good development," said Harvard economist David Cutler, a health care specialist. "Most of the debate is about cut, cut, cut. ... Often, people are willing to listen to businesses when they won't listen to academics."
But how much politicians dealing with the deficit will listen is unclear, Cutler cautioned. UnitedHealth and other advocates of modernization cannot offer precise savings figures for programs that have yet to be tested.
The Congressional Budget Office, which provides House and Senate members with official costs and savings figures for policies and legislation, tends to downplay or even ignore numbers like the ones UnitedHealth now offers, experts said.
Attaching a specific value to savings realized by changing health care delivery and using preventive medicine is "the big challenge" for reform programs like the one advanced by UnitedHealth, said Katherine Hayes, director of health policy for the Bipartisan Budget Center.
The center is developing a Medicare reform plan of its own. It is looking at every option, Hayes said, including raising the eligibility age.
Meanwhile, Stevens says UnitedHealth will be "continuing to create facts on the ground" using the experiences of the 75 million Americans the company helps care for in some way.
Making that data available to policymakers is the best hope of overcoming what Stevens calls the Catch-22 of modernizing to save Medicare: "People in principle can see this makes sense. But you don't know until people start doing it."
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Puerto Rico Overview
Puerto Ricopwār´tō rē´kō [key], island (2015 est. pop. 3,674,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. Officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (a self-governing entity in association with the United States), it includes the offshore islands of Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. The capital and largest city is San Juan.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Economy
- Government
- People
- History
- Bibliography
- Land
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Editors note: This is the first in a three-part series about the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire.
Its Sunday, June 9, 2002. Durango is baking in 86-degree weather and 12 percent humidity.
The entire Four Corners is suffering from a prolonged drought. La Plata County has received only 1.31 inches of rain since the beginning of the year.
The Animas River shows the effects, flowing at 481 cubic feet per second and dropping daily. (It reached 172 cfs on June 30.)
At 2:30 p.m., a spark, the origin of which was never determined, falls on forest debris in a switchback on lower Missionary Ridge Road (County Road 253) north of Durango.
The inferno it touches off will burn for 39 days before weary firefighters finish building a line around the perimeter. The last spark would not be put out until September.
The cost of suppression alone was $40.8 million.
(As a coda to the disaster, on June 25, an electric-fence charger started a grass fire in the Falls Creek subdivision on the west side of the Animas Valley. The Valley Fire stopped traffic on U.S. Highway 550 for four hours. It came within two miles of the Missionary Ridge Fire. The Valley Fire burned 439 acres and destroyed 10 houses.)
Ron Klatt, a retired fire management officer for the Forest Services Columbine Ranger District, recalls how fast the Missionary Ridge Fire moved that first day.
We had a crew of 50 from the Trimble work station there within minutes. But by the time they had their trucks in position, the fire had jumped the road (County Road 253) and was gone, he said.
The fire was atypical in so many ways that its still used nationally as a case study for crown fires, Klatt said.
A crown fire moves rapidly through a forest canopy tree top to tree top instead of on the ground.
It seemed that all conditions were lined up in favor of the fire, Klatt said. When we flew the perimeter of the fire at 9 p.m. that first day, it had covered 6,500 acres.
Flames continued to hopscotch over 72,962 acres in all, destroying 46 houses and cabins. Fire commanders fought back using hand crews, earth-moving equipment and assaults by helicopters and fixed-wing tankers that dropped water and fire retardants.
Each day posed special challenges as conditions changed.
Mark Stiles, who had recently arrived as interim supervisor of the San Juan National Forest, remembers the fires behavior as extreme and bizarre.
The fire would turn back on itself, Stiles said. It burned downhill at times and burned aspens, which, because of moisture content, usually arent readily flammable fuel.
Observers said some flames reached 250 feet in length or height.
The day the fire started, hikers, bikers, picnickers and anglers on day trips into the backcountry who could become trapped by flames became a first concern.
Firefighters and law-enforcement officers intercepted them and directed them to Big Bear Meadow, where they were evacuated by helicopter. Their vehicles were left behind.
Overall, the intensity and duration of the fire, authorities say, can be attributed to drought conditions, high temperatures, low humidity and overgrown trees and underbrush fuel with 4 percent moisture, the same as kiln-dried lumber.
Shifting winds and terrain with up to 50- and 60-degree slopes, which make them unapproachable by hand crews, lengthened the odds of quick containment. (A 50-degree slope rises 50 feet in elevation for every 100 linear feet.)
Wildland fires spread rapidly today because forests have become impenetrable thickets no longer managed by the naturally occurring wildfires of pioneer days.
The ferocity of the Missionary Ridge Fire created columns of smoke and ash, some a mile wide, that rose to 40,000 feet. Burning material was carried as high as 10,000 feet. The towering plumes, which marked the path of the fire for attentive spectators in the valley, could be an icon of the fire.
When columns cooled and collapsed, they spewed material ahead of the body of the fire to spark new blazes in timber that hadnt seen wildfire in decades. Flames, with fresh fuel, would sometimes run for six or seven miles.
Prevailing southwest winds normally would push fire to the east. But on Missionary Ridge, winds would shift and swirl and turn flames in the opposite direction.
One errant column, pushed by strong easterly winds, collapsed down Stevens Canyon, jumping County Road 250 and threatening the Bar D Chuckwagon.
The effort to save the Bar D was phenomenal because the fire was blowing over them, but they sprayed foam on everything, said Mike Dunaway, then chief of Durango Fire & Rescue Authority. I remember looking at my crews, volunteers who had stepped up along with the paid guys, and I saw how tired they all were.
Compounding the pressure on firefighters was the wildland/urban interface the individual houses or subdivisions snuggled in heavily forested areas created by development beyond the suburbs. As the fires rate of spread threatened more people and property, suppression ultimately was turned over to a Type 1 team from the Interagency Incident Command System, which oversees all phases of wildland fire suppression.
A Type 1 team has 50 to 75 members, each with expertise in one of four broad areas operations, planning, logistics and finance, said Pam Wilson, a Forest Service public information specialist and now director of Firewise of Southwest Colorado.
Fire management teams from Oregon, Florida, Montana and other parts of the country rotated in for two-week stints. About 2,300 firefighters eventually would see duty at the two area fires. The La Plata County Fairgrounds became command central for fire bosses. A tent city where catering companies fed firefighters sprang up and spilled onto Durango High School athletic fields.
The erratic path of the fire kept mountain residents on pins and needles.
Authorities kept them abreast of the advance of the fire. But a perceived momentary breather often could turn into a hasty evacuation. On one occasion, Aspen Trails residents were being told that it could be several days before the fire reached them when the meeting was interrupted and they got the command get out now!
Jeri Trausch, a resident of the Tween Lakes subdivision named for its position on the ridge between Lemon and Vallecito reservoirs was one of the area residents pushed and pulled by the fire. When she was awakened one morning at 1 a.m. and told to evacuate, Trausch, her children, ages 12 and 6, and a friend grabbed a few possessions and led three horses down the mountain. At 4 a.m., they got the all-clear signal. But a week later, a firestorm swept over the ridge, torching Trauschs cabin and most of her possessions, including papers, a computer, a potters wheel and a kiln.
The fire raced up Coon Creek drainage from its point of origin to the top of Missionary Ridge around 11,000 feet elevation. From there, flames pushed relentlessly eastward to the bottom of the Florida River drainage and then across the river between Lemon Dam and Helens Store to the Pine River basin below Vallecito Reservoir.
On June 17, the fire moved into bowl-shaped terrain on the west side of the reservoir just north of the dam.
The wind was blowing 70 to 75 mph, said Butch Knowlton, La Plata County director of emergency preparedness. The low lip of the bowl was sucking in air like an open damper on a wood stove.
As flames consumed the thick vegetation, the super-heated mass generated its own energy and began to spin. Wind shears became a vortex that escaped the bowl and spawned tornadoes.
Birds dropped dead and fell from the sky, said Knowlton, who watched from the reservoir dam.
The tornadoes ripped through the dried lake bed at the north end of the reservoir and overturned vehicles that owners had parked there believing they were safe. Flying debris broke vehicle windows. Sparks set upholstery on fire.
Rain, higher humidity and diminishing wind finally helped corral the fire. In the end, the fire was not an anomaly, but one of thousands across the country that summer. The National Interagency Fire Center reported that 88,458 wildfires burned 7 million acres in the 2002 fire season.
Ours was an area that hadnt seen regular fire in 100 years, Klatt said of La Plata County. When I think back, the Missionary Ridge Fire was so atypical that it seems like a dream.


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Change in public HOV policy smooths way for private toll roads
By Terri Hall
November 8, 2012
It's been a long time coming, but don't tell Dallas and Ft. Worth commuters that.
North Texas officials say the days of a free ride on HOV lanes were numbered from the beginning, but most area commuters don't know that and haven't a clue what's coming outside the handful who happened to catch the poorly attended public meetings on the proposed increase in occupancy requirements for a free ride to go from two people (HOV+2) to three (HOV+3). Officials are also considering allowing single occupancy vehicles (SOV) to use HOV lanes -- if they pay a toll.
When HOV lanes were built in the 1990s, Christi Gotti, Senior Manager over transportation funding for the North Texas Council of Governments (NTCOG) and the Regional Transportation Council (RTC), contends it was always considered temporary with the intention of making them managed toll lanes later.
"These (HOV) are interim facilities. They're not completed. We always said they'd become managed lanes," notes Gotti. But that's news to most drivers.
According to Gotti, the purpose of the HOV lanes is to increase the occupancy level in vehicles, reduce congestion, and improve air quality. So I asked how does allowing single occupancy vehicles to use those lanes gel with the goals for their HOV lanes? Isn't that a policy contradiction? She said they've basically attracted all the HOV users they're going to get in those lanes and have excess capacity.
Now the region is considering 'selling' the excess capacity in underutilized HOV lanes to single occupancy vehicles -- for a price. She noted it was in response to public complaints that those lanes are largely empty, "We get complaints that the HOV lanes are empty, so we're trying to marry the both worlds."
But, the message from the commuting public at the meetings wasn't 'charge me toll so I can access those lanes,' it was allow everyone free and equal access to those lanes, period.
Dan Lamers, Senior Program Manager over the Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) for the NTCOG and RTC, said they can't do that. Those lanes were built on shoulders and weren't necessarily built to be a general purpose lane. But the biggest sticking point is the fact that federal law requires those lanes to maintain a speed of at least 45 MPH, which if they opened it up to all vehicles, the average speed would likely drop below 45 MPH in peak hours.
"We can't manage the traffic/speed without the toll," Lamers put it plainly.
That's the rub for those who see the push for tolls as a larger threat to one's right to travel. HOV lanes were bad enough, now there's an all-out requirement for the government not only to 'manage' the travel of its citizens, but also to double tax them to access lanes their tax already money paid for -- all without their consent.
So what are 'managed lanes' anyway? Lamers defines them this way: "a facility that we're able to manage flow of traffic through operational controls like occupancy and tolls."
The public often gets frustrated with all these unfamiliar terms. At TxDOT hearings for proposed managed toll lanes, they don't even say the word toll. Is that really being transparent about what's happening?
Who's calling the shots?
What's also left out of the dialogue is the fact that these proposed changes come on the heels of the impending opening of the region's first managed toll lanes next year -- lanes that will be for the first time, managed not only by a private company, but also a foreign company, Spain-based toll giant Cintra.
So there's also the thorny issue of timing.
Cintra's managed lanes will only allow cars with 3 or more people to use its toll lanes free. What precipitated the proposed changes to the region's HOV policy to increase it to 3 people per car up from two? Cintra's managed lanes will feed into current publicly-run HOV lanes. If the public HOV lane occupancy requirements conflict with Cintra's privately-controlled managed toll lanes, it could cause confusion, says Gotti.
It looks an awful lot like the RTC is setting public policy to be consistent with a private company's policies, but Gotti insists the RTC set the policy and Cintra is implementing it on their behalf. She emphasized the RTC set the policy before Cintra was awarded the public private partnership (or P3 called a Comprehensive Development Agreement or CDA in Texas) contracts for the North Tarrant Express and the LBJ.
They certainly knew a private company was going to do those managed toll lane projects, it was just a matter of which one. In fact, their managed lane policy was written with the private toll operator, and making big bucks, in mind (see here). It mentions the Comprehensive Development Agreement firm in the HOV section and states that trucks won't be allowed to use the LBJ toll tunnel (the CDA or P3 contract under negotiation at the time this policy was adopted involved the LBJ toll lanes).
The toll rate 'policy' for managed lanes is 75 cents a mile and after the first 6 months, the toll operator can implement dynamic pricing and 'market based' tolls, which means charging whatever the 'market' will bear (translation -- an excuse to charge more than 75 cents a mile). There's nothing 'market'-based about toll roads. Roads are state-sanctioned monopolies by their very nature.
It's also no secret that a private toll operator, or public one for that matter, can't make enough money if they give too many cars a free ride. HOV+2 still pays 50% of the toll rate and the full rate in off-peak periods, and only HOV+3 gets a free ride. So increasing HOV occupancy requirements is due to profit motives, not the public interest. That makes the RTC's motives appear to be the same. There's ample evidence to demonstrate the public managed lane policy was written for the benefit of a private toll operator. So public road policy has been hijacked by for-profit corporations.
Why now? Because the RTC adopted managed lanes into its long-range 20-year plan, the MTP, in 2011, and now they're addressing how to transition the HOV lanes over to managed lanes.
The RTC board will formally decide what to do at its December meeting. While staff is not recommending the board adopt new HOV occupancy rules right now, they leave that door open in the future.
The staff presentation words it this way: "Identify benchmark operating targets and speed thresholds, and review and adjust tolling schedule and auto occupancy requirements over time."
Sounds like a fait accompli to me.
They're moving the goalposts as far as they think the public will accept. So expect the slippery slope of government-managed travel to continue, unless there's sweeping change to federal, state, and local policy very soon.


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Events Calendar
Eastman Graduate Chamber Music Seminar Concert
Enjoy chamber music during the annual chamber music concert.
Date: November 21, 2019 - November 21, 2019
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Wilson Formal Lounge, Haffey Hall
Presented by the Visual and Performing Arts Minor
Eastman Graduate Chamber Music Seminar features a selection of pieces including Serenade for flute, violin and viola, Op. 25 (L.V. Beethoven), Piano Quartet in Eb, Op. 87 (A. Dvorak), and Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34 (J. Brahms).
Eastman students include Emily Bieker, flute; Alexandra Blejeru, violin; Mia Chen, viola; Cameron Fuhrman, piano; Christopher Herz, violin; Daniel Spink, viola; Oleg Babkov, cello; and Yiou Li, piano; Xiaonan Huang and Lev Roshal, violins; Joyce Tseng, viola; Oleg Babkov, cello.
The concert is free and open to public. Light refreshments will be served.


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1. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedmazzag Mar 4, 2012 10:56 PM (in response to anil.saldhana)
Hi, I just downloaded the latest available JBoss Application Server (Version 7.1.0). My goal is to activate the PicketLink STS and be able to view its WSDL from a browser. The cheatsheet[1] says that Picketlink 2.0.1 is already available in the server, and yes, I see the Picketlink jars in the ./modules/org/picketbox/main/ folder. For the time being, that's OK for me instead of Picketlink 2.0.2. (I can try that later).
Following the README for JBoss, it tells me to start the server via: /bin/standalone.sh. OK, I've done that, and I can view the Admin Console at localhost:8080.
I have some questions:
1.) When the cheatsheet says that "Picketlink 2.0.1 is already available in the server", does it mean just the JARs (lite distribution) or JARs and WARs (full distribution)? Do I need the full distribution for the Picketlink STS?
2.) Will Picketlink STS 2.0.1 activate as soon as I start JBoss (I can't seem to find it in the Admin console), or do I need to install or do something additional for it to start? The old instructions (https://community.jboss.org/thread/162111) have us deploy something in /server/pl/deploy -- I don't know if I need to do that with AS 7.1.0.
3.) The cheatsheet says for AS 7.1.0, "You may want to get the latest zip file of the web apps at https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/picketlink/picketlink-fed-webapps-as7-assembly/2.0.2.Final/picketlink-fed-webapps-as7-assembly-2.0.2.Final.zip" I'm not sure what I need these for--when you say the "latest version" that implies that 7.1.0 has older versions and this download is to update them. But I can't see anything in 7.1.0 that contains these web apps so do I need them for the Picketlink STS?
4.) After all is loaded correctly, what is the URL to access the Picketlink STS WSDL?
[1] https://community.jboss.org/wiki/CheatsheetPicketLinkAndJBossAS
2. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedanil.saldhana Mar 5, 2012 11:15 AM (in response to mazzag)
The AS 7.x distribution does not contain any web applications. The jars reside in the modules directory.
3. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedgerry.matte Mar 5, 2012 11:25 AM (in response to anil.saldhana)
I have also been trying to make use of the 2.0.2 distribution with jboss 7.1.0.Final.
I echo the questions posted by Glen.
I have been trying to upgrade the jboss module for picketlink but so far without success.
When I attempt to deploy the idp.war from the 2.0.2 distribution (from item 3 in Glen's posting) I continue to experience a deployment error when I attempt to enable idp.war.
Please post the module.xml that is required for the 2.0.2 distribution.
Although my version identifies the resource picketlink-fed-2.0.2.Final.jar and the jar is present I encounter a ClassNotFoundException for org.picketlink.identity.federation.web.listeners.IDPHttpSessionListener
4. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedanil.saldhana Mar 5, 2012 11:56 AM (in response to gerry.matte)
I added a section for AS7.x in https://community.jboss.org/wiki/CheatsheetPicketLinkAndJBossAS
Gerry, ok. We will tell you what the problem may be, soon.
5. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedpcraveiro Mar 5, 2012 3:32 PM (in response to gerry.matte)
Hi Gerry,
I wrote the following article to help you in updating JBoss AS 7.1.0 to use PicketLink 2.0.2:
Please let me know if you have any doubts.
Pedro Silva
6. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedgerry.matte Mar 5, 2012 3:53 PM (in response to pcraveiro)
Thanks Pedro.
I had done exactly the same procedure as your new article.
Just to be sure, I replaced my module.xml with the contents from your article.
When I start jboss there are no errors.
I completely removed idp.war, restarted jboss and used admin console to add idp.war.
No errors.
But when I try to enable it, I see:
12:46:03,992 INFO [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015874: JBoss AS 7.1.0.Final "Thunder" started in 4403ms - Started 319 of 400 services (78 services are passive or on-demand)
12:46:29,424 INFO [org.jboss.as.repository] (HttpManagementService-threads - 4) JBAS014900: Content added at location C:\s\jboss-7.x\standalone\data\content\ff\90801cb75b94e53a236f03a3ce0ed
12:46:44,367 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-6) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "idp.war"
12:46:44,507 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-11) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."idp.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException
in service jboss.deployment.unit."idp.war".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "idp.war"
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:119) [jboss-as-server-7.1.0.Final.jar:7.1.0.Final]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_29]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS011093: Could not load component class org.picketlink.identity.federation.web.listeners.IDPHttpSessionListene
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.processComponentConfig(InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.java:113)
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.deploy(InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.java:54)
at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:113) [jboss-as-server-7.1.0.Final.jar:7.1.0.Final]
... 5 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.picketlink.identity.federation.web.listeners.IDPHttpSessionListener from [Module "deployment.idp.war:main" from Service Module Loader]
at org.jboss.modules.ModuleClassLoader.findClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:190) [jboss-modules.jar:1.1.1.GA]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassUnchecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:468) [jboss-modules.jar:1.1.1.GA]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClassChecked(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:456) [jboss-modules.jar:1.1.1.GA]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.performLoadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:398) [jboss-modules.jar:1.1.1.GA]
at org.jboss.modules.ConcurrentClassLoader.loadClass(ConcurrentClassLoader.java:120) [jboss-modules.jar:1.1.1.GA]
at org.jboss.as.ee.component.deployers.InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.processComponentConfig(InterceptorAnnotationProcessor.java:111)
... 7 more
12:46:44,570 INFO [org.jboss.as.server] (HttpManagementService-threads - 4) JBAS015870: Deploy of deployment "idp.war" was rolled back with failure message {"JBAS014671: Failed services" =>
{"jboss.deployment.unit.\"idp.war\".POST_MODULE" => "org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit.\"idp.war\".POST_MODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of de
ployment \"idp.war\""}}
12:46:44,585 INFO [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-12) JBAS015877: Stopped deployment idp.war in 24ms
12:46:44,601 INFO [org.jboss.as.controller] (HttpManagementService-threads - 4) JBAS014774: Service status report
JBAS014777: Services which failed to start: service jboss.deployment.unit."idp.war".POST_MODULE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."idp.war".POST_M
ODULE: Failed to process phase POST_MODULE of deployment "idp.war"
I am using standalone-full.xml in case that matters.
Is there possibly another step needed - or another dependency needed in module.xml ?
7. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedpcraveiro Mar 5, 2012 4:01 PM (in response to gerry.matte)
Can you attach a zip file with the modules/org/picketlink/main directory ?
Pedro Igor
8. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedpcraveiro Mar 5, 2012 4:07 PM (in response to gerry.matte)
An also the the web.xml of your idp.war file ?
9. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedanil.saldhana Mar 5, 2012 4:15 PM (in response to gerry.matte)
Have you tried unzipping the war zip inside standalone/deployments directory?
10. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedgerry.matte Mar 5, 2012 6:46 PM (in response to pcraveiro)
11. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedgerry.matte Mar 5, 2012 6:48 PM (in response to pcraveiro)
attached is the war archive which I deployed using the admin console.
In answer to anil, no I didn't try using an exploded war in the deployments folder
idp.war 6.0 KB
12. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedpcraveiro Mar 5, 2012 7:07 PM (in response to pcraveiro)
Hi Gerry,
I used the files you attached to configure my environment. Everything works fine, I could deploy and enable the idp.war using de admin console.
I realized that the web.xml in idp.war have no configuration for the org.picketlink.identity.federation.web.listeners.IDPHttpSessionListener. I don't know why you are still getting the ClassNotFoundException if this class is not defined. I did the deploy even with this listener defined.
The only difference I see is the SO. I'm using Linux and it seems that you are using Windows.
I'm also used your standalone-full.xml configuration file.
Try to use a fresh installation of JBoss AS 7.1.0 or remove temporary folders like standalone/data and standalone/tmp. Also, be sure there is no idp.war in the standalone/deployments folder.
13. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedmazzag Mar 6, 2012 7:29 AM (in response to anil.saldhana)
Anil, confusingly, both the "lite" and the "full" Picketlink downloads contain *both* the 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 JARS for the four PicketLink JARs -- do we really need both sets? Pedro's instructions (https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17625) just have us load in the 2.0.2 jars and ignore the 2.0.1 ones. If the 2.0.1 ones are unneeded, I think it would be better (less confusing and less potentially buggy) to fix the downloads, this time without the 2.0.1 jars. Thanks, Glen
14. Re: PicketLink 2.0.2.Final is releasedmazzag Mar 6, 2012 8:49 AM (in response to mazzag)
Anil, I would go a step further, instead of having a "full" and a "lite" download, it's better to have a "jar" and a "war" one, with the JAR download being your present "lite" one and the WAR download (optional for some users) *not* having any of the PicketLink JARs within it. The WAR download should rely on what is in modules/org/picketlink/main rather than its own PicketLink JARs.
As I see it, only two steps/downloads are needed:
1.) Use the "jar" download to update the JARs in modules/org/picketlink/main -- what you presently call the "lite" download has all this. I would go a step further and include the updated modules.xml file within the JAR download and a short README telling people to nuke (not append) the old files in this directory and replace it with these.
2.) For those users who need it, Install the WAR download into standalone/deployments. Again, this download shouldn't need any PicketLink JARs within it, as JBoss should smoothly run OOTB relying on the updated JARs in modules/org/picketlink/main.


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April 9, 2010
Treasury Secretary Geithner is on his way to Beijing, where he will meet with Chinese Vice Prime Minister Wang. The trip is in relation to US demands for a massive up valuation of the Chinese currency, the renminbi or yuan. This announcement has unleashed much gloating at the Associated Press and other pro-Wall Street news outlets, so it is important to issue a caveat at the very beginning: trips do not equal agreements. Obama made a personal visit to Afghanistan last month, and bilateral US relations with that country have been deteriorating in an alarming way ever since.
The question of the Chinese currency is this: for about 20 months, since about the beginning of the world economic depression in the late summer of 2008, China has been maintaining a peg or approximately fixed parity in relation to the dollar at a rate of about 6.8 renminbi per US greenback. Before that, the renminbi had been allowed to rise by about 21% between 2005 and 2008, largely in response to US pressure. The relatively fixed parity between the dollar and the renminbi has been an element of stability in a generally chaotic panorama of floating rates which characterizes the wreckage of the Bretton Woods system, which was demolished by Nixon and Kissinger almost four decades ago. Fixed parities among currencies promote world trade, because they allow exporters and importers to accurately anticipate the value of trade deals that take 6, 12 or 24 months to come to fruition. A rational US policy would be to maintain a negotiated fixed parity with China, and then invite the Japanese yen, the Russian ruble, the euro, and the Latin American regional currency to join such a system of fixed parities. This would amount to restoring one of the positive features of the 1944-1971 Bretton Woods system, which produced the highest rates of economic growth in human history before or since. Instead, the Wall Street puppets of the Obama administration are determined to destroy one of the few areas of stability which still persist.
The policy which Obama and Geithner are attempting to pursue is one of competitive devaluation of the US dollar. This is the policy of exporting the world economic depression towards China, which has been less hard hit so far than the Anglo-Saxon derivatives paradises of the US and the UK. This is a beggar my neighbor policy broadly similar to the one pursued by the British between 1931 and the outbreak of World War II. The US is demanding an upvaluation of the renminbi by something between 20 and 40%. This is another way of saying that the US wants to devalue or n value the US dollar by the same 20 to 40%. The idea is that Chinese products will then become more expensive on the US market, helping to reduce the astronomical merchandise trade deficit and balance of payments deficit which the US is suffering. It is a crackpot scheme.
The US Treasury under Geithner has been threatening to use a report on currency issues which is scheduled to be released on April 15 as a forum in which to brand China as a currency manipulator, opening the door to various kinds of punitive measures against Beijing being prepared by Democratic and Republican demagogues in the U.S. Congress in the context of the current congressional election season. That report may have been postponed, but the implicit blackmail remains on the table.
Every country has an inalienable sovereign right to manage its currency anyway it wants to. In response to the US demands, two factions have become visible in China. On the one hand are the elitists and globalists, whose spokesman on this issue is Governor Zhou of the central bank, who argues that a stronger renminbi will allow Chinese who already have money to buy more and consume more. This argument plays to the interests of the affluent elites in the coastal regions where this faction is based. On the other hand, the populist faction argues through Commerce Minister Chen that Chinese export firms are currently surviving on paper-thin profit margins, and that any appreciation of the renminbi will begin to put these companies out of business, causing unemployment and severe social dislocations. This argument seems to be supported by the Finance Ministry and the National Development and Reform Commission.
The Chinese rightly fear that increased unemployment will lead to widespread labor unrest, giving the Anglo-Americans the chance to run destabilization campaigns against China from the inside. At the same time, the Chinese leaders have an exaggerated fear of losing face if they are branded as currency manipulators. They can also see that many in the U.S. Congress would like to blame China for the Depression and take retaliatory measures.
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Geithner has already proven in practice that he is incapable of seeing a large-scale panic bearing down on him until it is much too late. He should be careful what he wishes for. In reality, the Chinese peg represents an important support for the increasingly labile US currency. This is because of the way the peg works in practice, i.e. through the Chinese buying dollars and buying U.S. Treasury paper on international markets even on days when few others have been willing to do so. In some ways the peg amounts to a concerted support operation for the US dollar by the Chinese central bank. If there is no peg, China will buy less and less Treasury paper, and a key prop for the greenback will have disappeared.
This is the great danger of the US plan for exporting the Depression to China. Over the decades, Paul Volcker has spoken occasionally about his greatest nightmare, which was that of a dollar slide which, once it had began, would become almost impossible to stop because of the inherent weakness of the US currency. This is the kind of mud slide of the dollar which could easily emerge if the Chinese peg is abandoned or even attenuated. This is something that will make the Depression worse for everybody.
Chinese sources indicate that a likely outcome of the current controversy is that China may increase the value of the renminbi by 3% to 4% over the next year as a way to avoid more overt clashes with the United States, especially in the context of the US election. But, as Chen points out, even 3% to 4% in appreciation for the Chinese currency will deliver a death blow to a whole population of Chinese exporters, and the fundamental US goal of exporting some of the Depression into China will have been attained.
There is no way out of these dilemmas for the Chinese unless and until they abandon their policy of orienting towards production for the US consumer market, a policy which has been combined with the very unwise accumulation of between $1 and $2 trillion worth of US Treasury paper. It is folly for a developing country like China to hold such large reserves of an unstable foreign currency. If the Chinese simply hold these Treasury bonds, they are very likely to depreciate significantly in value. If they try to dump them, their value will crash overnight in a general dissent of the world into panic and chaos. One important way to utilize these currency reserves would be to spend in an orderly way by purchasing capital goods and infrastructure either from the United States or on the world market more generally for the intensive development of the rural and less developed areas of China. One obvious need would be the purchase of thousands of modern hospitals to increase public health in precisely these areas. Other areas of hard infrastructure and soft infrastructure could also be developed.
The Chinese currency reserves could also be used internationally. The Chinese have been intensely focused on Africa as a source of raw materials for their future growth. Beijing would therefore be well advised to solidify its position in Africa by launching an ambitious Marshall Plan for that continent in the form of comprehensive infrastructural, agricultural, and industrial development. This could involve the creation of a Sino-African Development Bank from which many states could benefit. In effect, the Chinese could offer the Africans an alternative to the hated and discredited policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which could not survive a competitor that would respect national sovereignty and offer the Africans equitable terms.
The result would be a new African market for Chinese exports, mainly in the area of modern capital goods. Until this is done, the Chinese will have a very hard time escaping their excessive reliance on the US consumer market and U.S. Treasury paper.
As for Geithner, he had better come home and start working on his federal income tax return due April 15, since we know how much trouble he has had with paying his taxes in the recent past.
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- Total time:25 minutes
- Yolk of one hard-cooked egg
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- Zest of 2 large lemons, plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/2 cup canola oil
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- salt and pepper to taste
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- 8 small heads endive, cored and cut on an angle into 1/4-inch thick slices
- 1/4 cup minced shallots
- 3/4 cup minced herbs, such as parsley, chives, or tarragon
- 12 caperberries, for garnish (optional)
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Ghetto Fire Events combine with foundation Brisbane sound crew Rhythm Collision to take over The Valley entertainment precinct and present what will be the BIGGEST session of burning conscious reggae vibes and blazing dancehall seen this year across two stages in their 4th annual reggae dancehall explosion
Starting in 2009 Reggae Dancehall Vibes in three short years has quickly established itself as Brisbane's number one deejay reggae and dancehall music festival
The dress code for 2012 is military / camo style – so get ready to enter the combat zone of reggae and dancehall music !!
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Head of the Ghetto Fire Events, Zimbabwe's Ras George, a renowned music, dance, theatre producer/choreographer and a massive identity within the African community in Brisbane
Has been nvolved with the organisation of highly successful events such as the Zimbabwe Independence Day Soccer Tournament After Party, the Ragga Ragga series, African Communities Festival and Raggamuffin Dancehall Clash. Ras George is also the force behind Ghetto Fire Radio
Rhythm Collision Sound
Brisbane foundation sound, Rhythm Collision, have organised big shows in Brisbane such as the Boom Shot series, Bob Marley Birthday Bashes and Dub Day Afternoon
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With selecta Basmati of 4ZZZFM reggae dancehall Radio show The Yard Saturdays 2-4pm alongside Zimbabwean MC Cotts Peppler
DJ Bones
Straight outta Negril, Jamaica now resident in Brisbane, DJ Bones has been involved with reggae dancehall music since the age of 11. Early inspirations were from the elders of reggae music such as Garnett Silk, Dennis Brown and Glen Washington
He's been a part of Negril based soundsystem crews Hype Zone, Silverstar and Black Rhino as well as Bass Tonic in Montego Bay and collaborated with such artists as Beenie Man, Shaggy, Bounty Killer and Cecile. He has also performed at Sound Fest and ATI's Wet N Wild festivals and worked on TV Jamaica's Entertainment Report's coverage of the ATI's Wet N Wild festivals
Expect a set to include a crate load of dubplates voiced by some of Jamaica's biggest artists
Housewife's Choice
Housewifes Choice is comprised of selectas Bellyas and Fee. The pair joined forces in 2004 and have shared the stage and performed solo in many venues across Melbourne at events such as I Love Dancehall, More Fire, Ring The Alarm and Pressure Drop. They have also including performed interstate and overseas. They are known for their bass heavy sets of pure undiluted reggae and dancehall with a strong emphasis on conscious lyrics in the music they play and deejay strictly with vinyl
Fee originally from New Zealand and now based in Melbourne began her deejaying in 2001 and Bellyas who is based in Brisbane began in 1998. Prior to that both had been involved with presenting reggae dancehall music on Radio shows with Bellyas having hosted shows on SRA (Now SYN) FM, RRR and PBS FM in Melbourne
DJ Feel Good
Originally from the UK under the name DJ Bluetooth and inspired by the likes of Jezzy Jeff started deejaying in clubs at 19
After that he made a move to Malaysia playing at big clubs such as China White Titanium, Hope & Grapes and Tree House then moved to Australia running a show on Gove FM before settling in Brisbane
King Krazy
King Krazy now based in Byron Bay after having spend the last 2 1/2 years in Melbourne becoming an intergral part of it's reggae dancehall scene at club nights such as More Fire, Ring The Alarm and Pressure Drop
King Krazy has also shared the bill with international reggae artists such as Chaka Demus & Pliers, Jah Mason, Richie Spice, Bushman, Luciano, Mikey General, Ricky Trooper, Tippa Irie & Mikey Boops
Tuff Tumas
Selecta Hemi Tuff (aka Papa Tuff) of Tuff Tumas Music is a man in high demand deejaying around the Pacific and Australia. Originally from the islands of Vanuatu he successfully mashes up hot reggae and dancehall riddims with his own productions and Tuff Tumas remixes
Hemi Tuff alongside wicked new PNG reggae MC Jagarizzar has performed support for many International artists including Gyptian, J Boog, Anthony B, Cecile, Spawn Breezie, Jah Mason, O –Shen as well as a previously being a part of the Rhythm Collision Sound crew supporting such artists as Luciano and Chaka Demus and Pliers
Tuff Tumas is the new sound from the islands and Hemi Tuff is bringing it with mad dancehall and Melanesian riddims
DJ Wade
Originally from Seaview Gardens, Kingston Jamaica , home of Elephant Man, Bounty Killer and Supercat. He is a DJ/producer with outernational reggae label Das Vibes (Jamaica/Germany/Australia) which has produced for such artists as Turbulence, Gentleman, Cali P, Daddy Rings, Jah Sun and Ziggi
He is also one of the forces behind running www.dancehallreggae.com.au
DJ Pharrizle
Originally from Zimbabwe DJ Pharrizle is now resident in Brisbane. He first starting out deejaying at weddings and house parties then onto clubs and is now a member of the Blaq Entertainment deejay garrison which organise high profile events within the Brisbane African community
Blending a smooth style of old school and contemporary dancehall to connect with the crowd he has performed alongside Zimbabwe's Winky D as well as DJ Cindo and DJ Bongz from South Africa
Selecta Watson
DJ / musician Selecta Watson has had a fast start with initial shows as support with some of Brisbane's best bands including Kingfisha, Dubmarine, Darky Roots and The Upsteppers. His style of up to the time roots and dancehall has been setting some madd vibes
Watson is also bass player with Brisbane bands Dubmarine and The Upsteppers and has toured with Dubmarine to such countries as Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Czech Republic on the European summer festival circuit
MC Bushido Brown
Multi talented Bushido Brown is an upcoming MC with a diverse approach to music which has seen him take up MCing at clubs including the new OMG Fridays at Uber
Originally from Zimbabwe on a quest to conquer the scene as a singer and hyping up the hottest joints as an MC along the way. An artist on the rise
Takeover area:
The Jubilee Hotel
470 St Pauls Terrace, The Valley
Brisbane, Australia
2pm til next morning $20 entry
So lock in it and get ready to feel the vibes – don't miss it !!
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Reggae Dancehall Vibes 2012 (Bris)
Started by basmati , Apr 02 2012 09:00 PM
Posted 02 April 2012 - 09:00 PM
Posted 05 April 2012 - 10:53 AM
Boom! Big up Bas!
"I was not educated, I was inspirated. If I was educated I would be a damn fool"
Posted 07 May 2012 - 10:33 AM
Boom! Big up Bas!
Yes Dunchillin big vibe a building fe this !!
Posted 24 June 2012 - 10:34 AM
It's here - don't miss it - BOOOM !!!!


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Fewer Maryland children are living in high-poverty neighborhoods than a decade ago, but the lingering economic slump has left more parents without a steady paycheck, theAnnie E. Casey Foundationreported Wednesday.
The Baltimore-based charity ranks Maryland 10th in the nation for overall child well-being in its 2012 Kids Count Data Book, which analyzed nationwide research and statistics on children's economic well-being, education, health, family and community.
Becky Wagner, executive director of Advocates for Children and Youth, said the report shows that the state has made "good, solid advancements," but Maryland must keep working to close the remaining gaps. Wagner's nonprofit group collects the Kids Count data for the state.
"Maryland's children have a right to the basics — quality education, access to healthcare, and safe and economically secure households," Wagner said in a statement.
The state's biggest improvement came in the rate of children living in poor areas, which dropped by 25 percent from 2000 to 2010. A high-poverty neighborhood is defined as an area in which about a third of the population is impoverished. While the rate for Baltimore remained mostly flat, the concentration of high-poverty areas across the state declined.
Other Maryland-specific findings include:
•A 13 percent increase in children in single-parent households from 2005 to 2010.
•A 24 percent increase in children whose parents lack secure employment from 2008 to 2010.
•A 17 percent reduction in the child and teen death rate from 2005 to 2009.
•A 16 percent decrease in the number of fourth-graders not proficient in reading from 2005 to 2011.
•A 14 percent decrease in the number of eighth-graders not proficient in math from 2005 to 2011.
•No change in the rate of low-birth weight babies, which remained at 9.1 percent from 2005 to 2009.
Findings were similar across the country, the Casey Foundation found. The report says children continued to become healthier and make academic gains while their economic well-being suffered. Nationally, the death rate for children and teens fell as did the proportion of high school students who don't graduate in four years. Meanwhile, across the country, the number of children whose parents lack secure employment jumped 22 percent in just two years.
Laura Speer, the Casey Foundation's associate director for policy reform and data, said the goal is to convince state leadership to use the data to make future strategic investments.
"We hope that policy makers will use the report to pinpoint areas where there have been successes and areas that need improvement," Speer said. "Investing in the next generation is critical."
Nan Marie Astone, associate professor with the Center for Adolescent Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the Kids Count report can help assess the long term needs of Maryland children. As more children are raised in single-parent households, she said state leaders can think about creating more after-school programs or fostering more mentoring relationships.
"As children grow up they need certain assets to have a good life in adulthood," Astone said. "The main thing we as scholars and policymakers need to do is go beyond the Kids Count data and find out what accounts for … these trends. Our future is on the line."
Maryland's highest ranking was in education, at number six. Maryland placed 11th in health and 14th in economic well-being.
The state's lowest ranking — 19th — came in the family and community category that gauges the extent to which families and neighborhoods use social resources to nurture children.
The Casey Foundation has produced the Kids Count Data Book since 1990, but for the first time this year, the charity changed the makeup of the study from 10 to 16 indicators. That change makes a year-to-year comparison difficult.
In previous years, the state had ranked middle of the pack, coming in at 23rd overall in 2011 and 25th in 2010.


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The inmates housed at Chase Field Work Camp located at 4304 Highway 202 in Beeville, TX are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.
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TDCJ - Chase Field Work Camp is a facility in the Texas Department of Corrections. The DOC publishes the names of their current inmates and identifies which of their locations the inmate is being held. Your search should start with the first DOC locator to see if your loved one is there. Begin with the first three letters of the offender's first and last name, it does not have to be spelled exactly.
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If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is a family member of the inmate, they must be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate's extended family. If the visitor is under the age of 18 and is not a family member of the inmate, the minor visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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The Texas Department of Corrections is responsible for the operation of TDCJ - Chase Field Work Camp where they supervise adults convicted of a state crime and then sentenced to a commitment period by the County or Circuit Judge. The penalty phase of the commitment is the length of the sentence imposed and what type of facility they will spend their time in. Once the inmate is taken into custody there is an orientation period where the offender is evaluated medically and psychologically. The results of their findings will have everything to do with the level of custody the prisoner will be incarcerated.
State prison is also referred to as a correctional facility, penitentiary or detention center and is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state. Convicted criminals are sent to prison as punishment and must follow very strict rules of conduct and order or they are held to additional punishment like loss of privileges or isolation. The address is 4304 Highway 202, Beeville, TX located in Bee County.
There is a fundamental difference between jail and prison. It has everything to do with the length of stay for inmates; jail is short-term and prison is long-term. Jail is most commonly used within a criminal justice system for people charged with crimes who must be imprisoned until their trial, or those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified short period of imprisonment. Jails are usually run by local law enforcement county sheriff and/or local government police agencies.
Because prisons are designed for long-term incarceration, they are better developed for the living needs of their populations. State prison offers the inmate a more regular, routine life, the wider range of programs, better facilities and generally better food. The DOC has a bevy of disciplines for which an offender may be classified, they are Reception Centers, High Security (Males), General Population (Males), and Female Offenders.
State prison is very much like a town inside a town. There is a mayor (the warden - call 361-358-9880 for information), a store (the commissary), housing (cells), medical care (infirmary), library (law, education and lending), civic organizations (clubs), worship (chapel), a park (the recreation yard), a cafeteria (chow hall), police (correctional staff), a jail (disciplinary segregation unit, the SHU, the hole), laws (administrative rules), judges (hearings officers), and the inmates all have a job that keeps the institution operational.
There is no privacy in prison - inmates dress, shower, and use the bathroom in the company of other inmates. Inmates are required to make their bunks and keep their personal possessions neat; All inmates wear identical clothing and must carry their identification card with them at all times.; Most possessions allowed must be purchased from the canteen; Meal times are assigned and inmates have a short time to eat and depart the chow hall, there are no seconds; Inmates are subject to searches of their person and/or cell at any time; All movements of inmates from one area to another are tightly choreographed, monitored and supervised to avaid any incidents between location changes.
TDCJ - Chase Field Work Camp is a minimum security state prison located at 4304 Highway 202 in Beeville, TX operated by the Texas Department of Corrections. This institution is considered the best situation to be in if you have to be incarcerated. Inmates assigned to minimum security prisons generally pose the least risk to public safety. Inmates live in dormitories on a campus that resembles a school more than a prison. Inmates must have less than 8 years on their sentence, be non-violent with a clear disciplinary history to qualify for minimum designation. There is much less supervision of inmate movement within the prison than at any other custody level.
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There are strict procedures for everything related to "sending things to an inmate" in a State - minimum facility. This includes sending money for commissary packages, sending mail like letters with photos, magazine subscriptions, buying phone time, postcards and greeting cards, and even distance learning courses (get your degree, you've got a lot of extra time). You also need to know about visitation, what are the hours and rules.
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These are general guidelines for sending money to an inmate's commissary account. Inmates need money to access several privileges like weekly shopping at the commissary, making phone calls, using the email service where offered, using the electronic tablets where offered and paying their co-pay when needing the medical or dental services.
A commissary is a store within the correctional institution. Commissary day is usually held once a week and can only be enjoyed if the inmate has funds in their commissary account. An inmate's commissary account is like a bank account within the prison. If the inmate has a job, their paycheck is deposited into this account, too.
The Commissary sells various products that the inmates may purchase if they have money on their books. The commissary sells clothing, shoes, snacks and food, as well as hygienic products like soap, shampoo, and shavers. The commissary might also sell entertainment-related products like books, magazines, televisions, radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, electronic tablets like an iPad (no internet access), songs and educational programming.
How you send money to an inmate?
Sending money to an inmate varies from state to state, depending if it is county, state or federal, their ways of accepting money for inmates' changes by the money transfer company they've contracted with.
Federal Prisons and some state-level prisons have centralized banking systems which means that you do not need to know where they are specifically, just that they are in the state systems of for instance the California, Texas, Florida DOC or the FBOP to name a few.
Some facilities will allow you to deposit cash through the lobby window stand-alone kiosk in the lobby or visitation room. Most facilities will also accept a postal money order mailed to the institution's inmate mailing address made payable to the full inmate's name.
Electronic banking allows friends and family members to send the funds online, and correctional departments are starting to favor this method because it is less work for staff and more accurate/easier to keep track of, as well as being more convenient.
Regardless of the method of sending funds, there are several key things you will need to know:
• Inmate's full committed name
• Inmate's ID number
• Inmate's location – or a system like the federal BOP
Before sending any funds you should find out what online transfer companies the institution your inmate is incarcerated in uses. You can find this information on our site by navigating to the facilities page click on the Money Transfer button under the address and phone number. Pay close attention to the rules of the facility. Sometimes they will require money senders are on the inmate's visitation list. Some correctional facilities have a deposit limit, like $200-300 at a time, but in federal, there is no limit.
Some of the money transfer firms are MoneyGram, JPay, OffenderConnect, Access Corrections, JailATM, CommissaryDeposit
An inmate with fines or restitution will be subject to commissary/trust account garnishment. If the inmate has these financial obligations, they will be extracted from the inmate's bank account. It may be a percentage or the entire amount depending on the situation. We recommend inmates who are going into their bid contact the counselor and make an arrangement beforehand. If you go in knowing they are taking 20-25% of all deposits is better than have them take it all and you find out in the commissary line when the account is zero.
This is generally a signal that the inmate is doing something they shouldn't and need money to get them out of or through a situation. It could be gambling, it could be extortion it could be other things you don't need to know on this forum (for now). Set boundaries with your inmate. Tell them that "this is the amount I can send each month" and that is it. There are no extras beyond the boundary. Also, NEVER send money to the account of another inmate on your inmate's instruction. This is a sign that something is not right. If the corrections people discover this, and they do more times than not, it will result in some severe disciplinary action to the inmate, and certainly the loss of all privileges.
We recommend speaking with the counselor or case manager of the facility and use a generic reference in the event that your suspicions are wrong. You needn't put them in a more difficult position if they are.
Show your loved one how much you care – order a package today! The facilities usually have a weekly limit of about $100 per inmate, plus processing and tax. The orders do NOT count towards the inmates weekly commissary allowances Deposits can be made online for inmates 24/7 using a credit/debit card
There are also a few services that allow you how to order inmate commissary online. These trusted providers are approved and share revenue with the prisons from the sales to the inmates.
Here is a list of other similar programs prison commissary: Keefe Group, Access Securpak, iCareGifts, Union Supply Direct, Walkenhorst's, CareACell
Prison commissary (also sometimes referred to as inmate canteen) is a store for inmates housed within a correctional facility. While the very most basics may be provided for by a given correctional department, there are also other important goods/services that Florida prisoners and inmates must buy. For instance, supplies such as supplementary food, female hygiene products, books, writing utensils and a plethora of other things are examples of things that can be purchased as part of an inmate commissary packages for goods.
When you add money to an inmate account, the prison funds are stored on an inmate trust fund. This prison account basically acts as a personal bank account of an inmate. They will use this account to make Inmate Calls, pay for postage to Send Photos from Inmates, send emails from inmates, purchase Items from Commissary, receive wages from jobs, and more.
Incoming and outgoing inmate mail is subject to inspection for the presence of contraband that might threaten the safety, security or well-being of the jail/facility, its staff, and residents. Inmates may receive only metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4" x 6" as mail. Writing must be in pencil or blue or black ink. Any other mail will be returned to the sender. If no return address is available, unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate's locker until the inmate's release.
Inmate mail cannot contain any of the following: Create an immediate threat to jail order by describing the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape that realistically are a danger to jail security; Advocate violence, racial supremacy or ethnic purity; No current inmate-to-inmate mail will be allowed and will be destroyed.
The easiest workaround is to look over the mailing services of InmateAid. We have an automated system for sending your loved one that special message or picture. We send thousands of pieces of mail per month with NO issues with the prisons or jails. The envelopes display the InmateAid logo, the mail room knows for certain that the contents will not be compromising. This trust was established in 2012.
Greeting cards are great for the holidays and birthdays. The ones from the store often have more than just the message because the policies surrounding appropriate content (no nudity or sexually suggestive material no matter how funny), and they cannot have glitter, stickers or anything else that makes the card different from a normal plain old card. Instead of going to the Hallmark store in the mall and looking around for hours - go to our easy to search Greeting Cards service.
It takes literally 45 seconds and it's very affordable for what you're getting (and what they are getting, too!). Select from 100s of birthday, anniversary and every holiday you can think of, and VERY easy to send from your phone on InmateAid:
Don't forget Christmas, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day, New Year's, Ramadan, Hanukkah, Passover, Easter, Kwanzaa or Valentine's Day!
In less than a minute and only $0.99, this act of kindness will be worth a million to your inmate. If you have a picture or two and don't want to write a long letter. Type out a little love in the message box and send your latest selfie... only 99 cents!
Don't wait until the moment has passed, it's easy and convenient to let them know you're thinking of them at every moment.
Send the best magazines and books to your Inmate in jail or prison, it's the gift that keeps on giving all year round, There is nothing more exciting to an inmate (besides their release date) than getting their favorite magazine every month at mail call.
Magazines and books must come directly from the publisher. You are not allowed to send single magazines in an envelope. They need to come directly from the publisher with your inmate's name affixed to the address label. Magazine subscriptions are easy to set up, it takes literally 2 minutes.
You know when you go into the grocery and browse the new magazines on display? You see hundreds. Inside they place a little card that if you fill it out and send it in with your inmate's name, ID number and facility address - you drop it in the mail and in 8-12 weeks your inmate gets an issue every month for a whole year. Thankfully, there is an easier way, just CLICK here and browse yourself. Select a title or two and add your inmate's name to the order. It's fast, it's reliable and it's at a discounted rate for your convenience.
The prison phone companies have a monopoly at the facility they have a contract with. Profits are shared so there is no incentive for their representatives to show you how to save money. They post their rates and in almost every case, there are at least two pricing tiers. Depending on where you are and where your inmate is, the type of phone number you use will make all the difference.
In federal prison, the answer is simply that a new local number will change your inmate's call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute. Fed gives you only 300 minutes per month, the local line service is only $5.00, no hidden fees or bundling of other unwanted service charges
For the other facilities that are not federal, it used to be that a local number was the answer. Now, its market intelligence and InmateAid has made it their business to know what the best deal is in every scenario. And we can tell you that in 30% of the cases, we cannot save you a penny - and neither can anyone else. But we will give you a refund if we can't save you money.
For more specific information on inmate calls, you will want to navigate to the facility your inmate is incarcerated in through our site by going to Prison Directory and following the links to the Discount Telephone Service - get an honest estimate before you buy.


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Domestique Matt Busche pips veteran and hometown favorite George Hincapie to win the USA Cycling Professional National Championships.
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When a four-man breakaway made its way toward downtown Greenville, South Carolina, for the finale of the USA Cycling Professional National Championship road race in May, RadioShack's Matt Busche faced long odds.
The second-year pro was up against the godfather of Greenville cycling, George Hincapie, and two capable pros with significant results on their palmarès. The foursome came to the line after 115 miles in 90-plus-degree heat that saw the race blow apart on the final climb of Paris Mountain.
Tejay van Garderen forced the final selection and would surely attack early on the ramps southeast of town. He couldn't hope to win a sprint against Hincapie. If he didn't escape, Ted King was on top form and would try to beat Hincapie with a well-timed surge a few kilometers from the line. Both suffered from cramps, however, and neither man attacked until the final kilometer.
A week after pulling Chris Horner to overall victory at the Amgen Tour of California, Busche sat patiently, showing the resolve of a rider years his senior. Finally Busche burst out of the group around King and led through the final corner.
Hincapie leapt out in pursuit onto the downhill finish straight, exposed in the final 250 meters to the line. Twice a winner in Greenville, Hincapie passed Busche, taking the point; he would surely make it three hometown titles in six years.
But Busche did not fade, and instead clung to Hincapie's wheel. The former collegiate cross-country runner surged a second time, coming onto Hincapie's left shoulder, and threw his bike for the line.
In the most improbable scenario, Busche pipped the BMC veteran — and hometown favorite — by a tire width. The domestique was the new U.S. champion and for the second year in a row, Greenville delivered a must-see finale.
Coming Wednesday: 2011's Most Dramatic Day.