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JCR Management
- 1 JCR Mangement (JCRM)
- 1.1 The Contributions
- 1.2 The Status
- 1.3 The Architecture
- 1.4 The Tooling
- 1.5 The API
- 1.6 Tasks
- 1.7 Next Milestone
- 1.8 Ideas
- 1.9 Values
- 1.11 Try it out
JCR Mangement (JCRM)
JCR Management will provide tooling and a JCR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_repository_API_for_Java) persistence framework for EMF with pluggable JCR implementations.
The Contributions
- Johan Gielstra:
- posted a code contribution that enhances the JCRM New Project Wizard by automatically setting the project name in an oAW property file (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=244969)
- added namespace handling to the node type registration. The ecore package namespace is used now for the node types of its classes.(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245739) This is an important first step for mapping JCR namespaces to Ecore packages.
- changed the model to model transformations to generate better property names (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/process_bug.cgi). This makes the generated ecore model a lot more readable.
- enhanced JCRM to allow adding many nodes without needing to specify it's name. (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=245450) Before this patch only one node with a fixed name "NewNode" could be added. The contribution increments the node name by one if it exists.
- reviewed the first version of the JCRM tutorial
- My employer inovex GmbH (http://www.inovex.de) contributes 2 person days to work on this project within working hours.
- Ed Merks:
- helps as a mentor for questions regarding the Eclipse foundation.
- implemented a new feature request for EMF that I had (dynamic feature delegation)
- answers a lot of my questions in the newsgroup
- My employer inovex GmbH (http://www.inovex.de) contributes 5 person days to work on this project within working hours.
- Ed Merks:
- helps as a mentor for questions regarding the Eclipse foundation.
- answers a lot of my questions in the newsgroup
- The ATL team contributed an initial meta model and transformation that will speed up ATL integration.
- Nick Boldt created the initial JCR Management (CVS, website, ...) setup at eclipse.org
The Status
JCRM is not production ready at the moment. The current code base consists of prototypes that serve as a basis for concrete discussions about requirements and solutions. The prototypes are tested exclusively with the example library EMF model.
The Architecture
JCRM is based on a mapping between EMF and JCR. One part is responsible to map EMF type elements to JCR node type elements and the other part maps EMF objects to JCR nodes. The main advantage of that architecture is, that many EMF frameworks can now work on JCR node types and nodes. The following JCRM tool prototypes are just examples how this mapping can be used. More ideas JCR tools or Eclipse projects are certainly welcome. They will be logged in the ideas section of this wiki. The most interesting ideas will be provided to the community for priorization and for validation the use cases. After that the JCRM team (at the moment it's just me - Sandro) will work on it.
Mapping of type elements
There is a seperate page that explains how to map EMF type elements to JCR node type elements.
The Tooling
EMF Class Editor
The class editor is based on the EMF Ecore model. This model is generated from the node types in the repository.
Jackrabbit XML Nodetype Editor
This editor saves the content in the XML format that can be used for Jackrabbit node type registration. It completely supports drag 'n drop, copy & paste and undo/redo. The editor is basically the sample model editor of EMF enhanced with the JCRM type mapping semantics. You can use it to create a new XML file for the node type registration in Jackrabbit and you can also read the node types from the repository save it and manipulate it with this editor.
Jackrabbit CND Editor
This text editor validates the content against the Jackrabbit CND format. It also contains minimal code completion. For this editor the XText framework of oAW is used. The JCRM type mapping framework makes it possible to use the JCR node type structure in the grammar for the XText editor. This way the CND file can get generated from the node types in the repository on the fly. At the moment only a small subset of the XText features are used in this editor.
Domain Model Editor
The domain model editor is a sample tool that is generated from EMF. It usually has a XML backend. Just the backend configuration changes it to be an editor of JCR nodes.
Every change in the model immediately changes the underlaying repository. E.g. if you add a "Book" object in that editor node.addNode("NewNode","Book") is called. As soon as you save the editor session.save() is called.
The API
The API uses the classes generated by EMF and the JCRM type mapping. At runtime you can see the JCRM object mapping at work. You can find more detailed descriptions in the comments.
public static void main(String[] args) { // Create an EMF resource set to hold the resources. ResourceSet resourceSet = new ResourceSetImpl(); // Register the appropriate EMF resource factory to handle the file // extension "mydomainmodel" resourceSet.getResourceFactoryRegistry().getExtensionToFactoryMap().put ("mydomainmodel", new demo.MyResourceFactory()); // Register the EMF package to ensure it is available during loading. resourceSet.getPackageRegistry().put (MyDomainModelPackage.eNS_URI, MyDomainModelPackage.eINSTANCE); try { // Create an EMF resource using the registered "mydomainmodel" extension Resource resource = resourceSet.createResource(URI.createURI("http:///My.mydomainmodel")); // Create a domain object. The constructor is initially generated by EMF to be protected // but you can make it public if you want. Library library = MyDomainModelFactory.eINSTANCE.createLibrary(); // In contrast to the JCR specification EMF generally allows to have many root nodes // hence the content of the resource is designed to be a list in EMF even though the // JCRM Framework needs only one element in the content. // JCRM puts the root object containing the corresponding root node of the repository // in the content of the resource where it can get retrieved. "root" is the type // of the rootObject that corresponds to the node type of the root node. root rootObject = (root) resource.getContents().get(0); // As soon as an object is added to it's containing object it also get it's // node injected. In this case the library object is added to the "residual // definition" feature of the rootObject. That calls addNode() on the // node that is contained within the rootObject. The resulting node // is then injected in the library object. rootObject.getResidualDefinition_base().add(library); // Every domain object contains it's corresponding node and every modification // is delegated to the node. In this case setName...("MyLibraryNameByAPI") actually // calls nodeOfTheObject.setProperty("name","MyLibraryNameByAPI") // This way the objects don't need to have own copies of the property content. // At the moment there is not something like a detached mode where you can // modify properties without the object having an injected node. library.setName_1_false("MyLibraryNameByAPI"); library.setNodeName("MyLibraryNodeNameByAPI"); Book aBook = MyDomainModelFactory.eINSTANCE.createBook(); library.getResidualDefinition_Book().add(aBook); Writer aWriter = MyDomainModelFactory.eINSTANCE.createGuideBookWriter(); aBook.setAuthor_Writer(aWriter); aWriter.setName_1_false("aGuidBookWritersNameByAPI"); aBook.setTitle_1_false("Book-TitleByAPI"); aBook.setPages_1_false("200ByAPI"); // that calls session.save() and persists the changes made above. resource.save(System.out, null); } catch (IOException exception) { exception.printStackTrace(); } }
- See Bugzilla for an overview of the ToDo's https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=EMFT&component=JCR+Management&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&order=Importance
Next Milestone
Create a first downloadable presentation of the project to show the potential of Eclipse modeling to the Jackrabbit community.
- Using Cedrics Compare editor inside the JCR Manager
- simplicity
- transparency
- no dependency on JCR implementations
- What's the relationship between JCR Management and Jackrabbit JCR-OCM?
One part of JCR Management has the same goal as JCR-OCM - exposing node data and operations to domain models - but JCRM uses an MDSD approach based on Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). This makes it depending less on reflection and using more generated classes instead. It will delegate as many calls on JCR node data as possible to minimize copying node data to domain model objects. Additionally JCR Management also has many other goals. But find out the details of JCR-OCM and check out the source code and the documentation.
Try it out
- Jackrabbit:
JCRM expects the currently latest Jackrabbit version remotely at "//localhost:1099/jackrabbit.repository". Please make sure it's available there.
- Eclipse:
JCRM is tested with the Eclipse modeling package (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/) together with oAW (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/gmt/oaw/43/openarchitectureware-sdk-4.3-release.zip)
- Check out all modules from org.eclipse.emf/org.eclipse.emf.jcrm/plugins as plugins using this repository connection:
Server: dev.eclipse.org Repository Path: /cvsroot/modeling User: anonymous Password: (leave blank) Connection Type: pserver Checkout As: Empty EMF Project
- In the "org.eclipse.emf.jcrm.conversion" plugin in the source folder you find the general build.xml file. It is used to build all projects.
- Right-Click it and choose "Run As/Ant Build..."
- In the "JRE" tab choose "Run in the same JRE as the workspace"
- Press "Run"
If there are no errors anymore you successfully checked out JCRM.
Running JCRM
- In the main menu choose "Run/Run Configurations"
- Create a new Run Configuration for "Eclipse Application"
- Give it a name like "Start JCRM" if you want
- In the "Arguments" tab enter "-Xmx512m" in the "VM arguments" field
- Press "Run" to start a new Eclipse instance
- You can also start your Jackrabbit server now
This puts all plugin projects that have been checked out (and maybe modified) into the new Eclipse instance.
Creating a demo domain model
- In the new Eclipse instance create a new JCR Management project using the "New Project..." wizard. You can give it a name like "Demo" if you want.
- Paste the example library EMF model as library.ecore into the generated "model" folder. I tested JCRM basically with this model but the current features should also work with other models.
- In the "workflow" folder open the "workflow.properties" file and change the "projectFolderName" to the one you have choosen in the New Project-wizard.
Registering the domain model and create the tooling
Now the fun part starts as the tooling can be generated.
- Right-Click at "workflow/registerModelToRepository.oaw" choose "Run As/oAW Workflow" to register your Ecore model to the Jackrabbit repository.
- "src-gen/library.jrxmlntmodel" is the xml file that has been used to register the domain model as Jackrabbit XML.
- "src-gen/library.nodetype" is a native JCRM model that serves as a basis for transformations into other models.
- Right-Click at "workflow/loadModelFromRepository.oaw" choose "Run As/oAW Workflow" to create a new EMF model from the native JCR node types and your own node types that are currently registered to your repository. This basically puts your domain model in the context of the node types of your repository.
- "src-gen/loadedLibrary.ecore" is the Ecore model that contains the domain model, the native JCR node types in Ecore format and the annotations that map the Ecore elements to node types elements.
- "src-gen/loadedlibraryNodeTypes.nodetype" is a native JCRM model that serves as a basis for transformations into other models.
- "src-gen/loadedLibrary.jrcnd" is a generated file that contains all node types in the Jackrabbit CND format.
- Right-Click at "loadedLibrary.ecore/Initialize ecore_diagram Diagram file"
- Press "Finish" and you will see how the EClasses (node types) relate to each other in the Diagram
Configure JCRM for the use as API and as domain model editor
- Copy the loadedLibrary from the src-gen folder to the model folder to avoid that it is overwritten by subsequent calls on loadModelFromRepository.oaw
- To make JCRM aware of changes in the model instance, all domain model classes need to extend from JCRM's JCRMNode class instead of Object or EMF's EObject. As now basically all domain model classes inherit from the "Base" class (nt:base) we only need to make the Base class inherit from JCRMNode. To do this you can do the following steps:
- Open the mode/loadedLibrary.ecore file
- Right-Click at the root node of the tree and choose "Load Resource..."
- Choose "Browse Registered Packages..."
- Select "http://www.eclipse.org/jcrm/0.8.0/dmodel, finish the dialog and save the model. This references the domain model (dmodel) base of JCRM for the object-node mapping.
- Open the properties editor for the "base" EClass
- Assign the JCRMNode EClass as the ESuper Type for "base"
- Right-Click at loadedLibrary.ecore and create a new "Eclipse Modeling Framework/EMF model" (loadedLibrary.genmodel) based on the Ecore model.
- Click throuch to the 4th page and press "Load".
- At the "Package Selection" page check "myDomainModel" as "Root packages" and "Domainmodel" as "Referenced generator models". Then you can finish the dialog.
- Open the properties editor for the root element of the genmodel and change the "Model/Feature Delegation Field" to "Reflective". That delegates all calls on the model to the JCRM framework. Later an other value instead of "Reflective" will be used which will provide more flexibility.
- Right-Click at the root element of the genmodel and select "Generate All". That generates the model classes, initial source code for a test class and the tree based editor for the model.
- Add org.eclipse.emf.jcrm.userdependencies to the list of the plug-in dependencies in the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file. Make sure the "reexport" option is selected.
- Add the "org.eclipse.emf.ecore.extension_parser" extension to the list of extensions in the plugin.xml file (it's the same editor as the manifest.mf file.
- Use "mydomainmodel" in the type field. That declarates that every resource that ends with *.mydomainmodel will handled by the JCR backend we declare in the class field
- Click at the link in the "class*:" label. This opens the "New Class" wizard.
- You can use the /Demo/src-resource folder as source folder, "demo" as package and "MyResourceFactory" as class name.
- Choose "JRRMIResourceFactoryImpl" as supertype for that class and finish the dialog.
- In the resulting Java class use the Eclipse quick tip to import the "JRRMIResourceFactoryImpl" class and to add the unimplemented method.
- Instead of "null" return "myDomainModel.MyDomainModelPackage.eINSTANCE"
- Navigate to the "Runtime" tab of the manifest.mf editor and add the demo package to make the resource available to the depending plugins. Now the JCRM class-node type mapping, the object-node mapping and the backend (resource) configuration are finished.
Starting a test case using the API
- To test the JCRM API you can replace the Demo.tests/src/myDomainModel.tests.MyDomainModelExample.main() method with the one from http://wiki.eclipse.org/JCR_Management#The_API . If you run it as an application within Eclipse you need to add "-Xmx512m" to the VM arguments in the "Arguments" tab of the run configuration. This should add some nodes and give you a quick example of the JCRM runtime API.
Starting the domain model editor
- In the main menu of your current (2nd) Eclipse instance choose "Run/Run Configurations"
- Create a new Run Configuration for "Eclipse Application"
- Give it a name like "Start Editor" if you want
- In the "Arguments" tab enter "-Xmx512m" in the "VM arguments" field
- Press "Run" to start a new Eclipse instance open a new simple project like that:
- In the new Eclipse instance (the 3rd):
- Click at "File/New/Project...".
- Choose "General/Project".
- Give it a name like "Editor".
- Now you can create the domain model editor by using the new file wizard:
- Right click at your project and choose "New/Other...".
- Choose "Example EMF Model Creation Wizards/MyDomainModel".
- Give it an arbitrary name.
- Choose an arbitrary Model Object in the following page and finish the dialog.
- Now the editor opens and you can edit your Jackrabbit backed model.
- The properties editor can be opened by right clicking on a model element and choosing "Show Properties View".


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Everyone has favorite Thanksgiving traditions. Food plays a major role in Thursday's holiday, as does entertainment and shopping.
Local residents talked about what they prefer:
Turkey or ham;Potatoes or stuffing;Corn or green beans;Pumpkin pie or apple pie;Movies or football;Black Friday shopping or sleeping.Favorites of Sarah Atkins of Sturgis, include turkey, potatoes, corn, apple pie and sleeping rather than shopping. As for entertainment, "It depends on who is playing," she said.
Logan Brown, 14, of Sturgis, likes turkey, stuffing, corn, pumpkin pie, sleeping and "Definitely football."
Christopher Dunson of Sturgis prefers ham, potatoes, green beans, apple pie, movies and sleeping rather than shopping.
Alondra Garcia, age 10, likes turkey better than ham, "mashed potatoes," corn, apple pie, watching movies and sleeping rather than shopping.
Sebastian Garcia, age 5, likes turkey, but doesn't know whether he likes potatoes or stuffing better. He does know he likes corn, apple pie, football and shopping.
Sherry Hibbard, of Sturgis, would choses a meal of ham, potatoes, corn, and apple pie. She'd watch movies over football and choose sleeping over shopping.
Mary Ellen Jefferies of Sturgis, likes turkey, stuffing, green beans, apple pie, football and sleeping.
Kathy Parkhurst of Sturgis, would choose turkey, "stuffing, potatoes and gravy," green beans, both apple and pumpkin pie, football and sleeping.
Andrew Rambadt, age 11 of Sturgis, likes ham, stuffing, corn, apple pie, "movies about football" and sleeping more than shopping.
Of the options, Francisco Sandoval of Sturgis, would choose turkey, potatoes, corn, apple pie and movies. On Friday, he will be working rather than sleeping or shopping.
David Whisler of White Pigeon likes turkey, stuffing, green beans, pumpkin pie and football. On Black Friday, he will be working along side Sandoval.
Nancy Wilson of Sturgis would choose both turkey and ham, stuffing, green beans, pumpkin pie, watching movies and sleeping rather than shopping.


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I just learned that the Noyes Port-of-Entry will be closing on July 10th of this year.
For me personally, it will be an end of an era. I can't tell any of you reading this how many times I travelled through the USA-Canadian border at that crossing. I took it to Emerson for shopping with my Mom, for piano lessons, to visit Dr. Goossen the veterinarian, to go to Winnipeg, to visit churches in Altona, to go to the rodeo in Morris, to vacation at Riding Mountain National Park...the list goes on.
My father worked a good share of his adult life for the railroad in Noyes, working closely with many men who worked at the Noyes port. Someday, I can envision some sort of automation of the 'cutting' process (as my father would call it, a term that covered doing inspections and paperwork allowing the train to cross the border) so that the depot will close, too. Noyes will become a ghost town, and it will be as if it never was.
Time marches on...
UPDATE April 1 2012: The border crossing station at Noyes was established in 1905, after having been previously located in the nearby town of St. Vincent. During the first three decades, most of the customs business at Noyes pertained to railroad rather than highway traffic. In fact, between 1905 and 1931 the Noyes customs office was located in the Great Northern depot. The current red brick customs building was built in 1931. - MN/DOT Historic Roadside Development


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otsohiru wrote:
. . .wow! That looked incredible! Went through all the pictures! ( \o/ yay for lunch breaks ) Looks to be absolutely fantastic! Been hearing about Japan from a friend of mine who was recently there. I'm now looking into flights and accommodations :P. Hopefully I can book something for some time later ^-^!
What cities are you looking at going to? My friend in Kyoto helped us book a night at the Super Hotel Kyoto Shijo ( http://www.superhoteljapan.com/en/s-hotels/shijyogawara.html ). It was about 5800 yen for the night, and the room had free internet, free breakfast, the hotel was brand new, clean, comfortable (but small), 32" LCT HDTV, and choose your own pillow based on hardness. One of the best and cheapest places I stayed. We liked it a lot more than a certain Ryokan that costs us over three times that a night, no breakfast, and we felt a bit disappointed by it (room had an odor of dirty socks, sweaty feet, and dirty sneakers, which grossed us out a bit).
The trip was amazing, and I am working on the plans for a second trip. I am also trying to pencil in time each day for studying Japanese, so I am able to at least read and speak a little bit. Last trip, I had zero ability to communicate.
I'm not fussed about accommodations I'm happy so long as i'ce got a spot to store items and sleep. Was looking at the capsule hotels! They look funky yet terrifying! Always thought that Akita, Mito, Chiba, Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka looked like remarkable locations :)!
A royal gun salute to mark the king's birth!
I am trying to figure out a 2013 trip, but work has been a royal pain in the ass about me taking time. I earned 45 vacation days, and it's a huge headache every time I want to take any. Not sure if there will be a 2013 trip. Funds are there, but so are work issues.


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'Fixing Service'
On occasion, UBS traders also asked brokers to help mislead traders at other banks by altering the cash rates they displayed on clients' electronic screens, the CFTC said.
UBS paid 15,000 pounds ($24,000) a quarter to an unidentified broker over an 18-month period for the provision of a "fixing service" for yen Libor, the FSA said in its settlement with the bank. The broker, which provided Libor panel banks with a daily "run-through" on where it estimated benchmark rates would be set, would tailor its commentary to suit Hayes's requests.
Brokers were willing to help traders to win future work. Some were also rewarded with so-called wash trades, where counterparties place two or more matching trades through a broker that cancel one another out while triggering a payment of fees to the middle man, according to transcripts released by regulators on Feb. 6.
'Some Bro'
Hayes colluded with RBS derivatives trader Neil Danziger to make almost 211,000 pounds of illicit payments to two brokers, regulators said in filings that didn't identify the individuals and firms. One of the brokers was RP Martin, people with knowledge of the matter said. Danziger didn't return messages or a request for comment left with his lawyer.
"Can you do me a favor," the broker asked Danziger on Sept. 19, 2008, according to a transcript released by the CFTC. "You're not going to get paid any bro for this and we'll send you lunch around for the whole desk." As the broker outlined the trade, he said "Take it from UBS, give it back to UBS. He wants to pay some bro," referring to fees.
"Yeah, yeah," Danziger replied.
Later that day, the broker asked Danziger if he could "do another 100 yards" or 100 billion, increasing the size of the transaction. "Flat switch," the broker said. "I know I'm pushing my luck."
The broker netted about $31,000 in fees from the trades, according to the CFTC.
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It's Only A Miracle If You're Not In The Business Of Selling Loaves & Fishes
from the unauthorized-reproduction-of-food dept
After reportedly feeding a crowd of five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, Jesus Christ of Nazareth was recently served with formal legal notice from industry trade associations, demanding that he cease and desist from what they charge is an illegal food-sharing operation under the terms of the Miracle Millennium Anti-Replication Act (MMAA).There are some more such examples, including concerns about turning water into wine and healing people without a physician's license. Good stuff. Of course, as was pointed out in the comments to that post, others have come up with similar ideas, including this Nerfnow comic, in which a bread seller complains that "bread piracy will kill the bread industry."
Miracle-working rabbis like Mr. Christ, and their alleged property rights infringements, have been the center of controversy in recent years. They're the subject of a public education campaign by the Foodstuffs Producers Association of Galilee and Judea. Loaves and fishes producers argue that unauthorized replication of food, since it deprives them of revenues to which they are entitled, amounts to stealing. Sympathetic rabbis in synagogues throughout Palestine are reading FPAGJ public service announcements, aimed at countering public perceptions that "everybody does it" and "it's just a little thing," to their flocks: "Don't bakers and fishermen deserve to be paid?" Many Torah schools have adopted FPAGJ "anti-foodlifting" curricula.
The thing is, there is a flipside to all of this. Just as people talk about the ability to create new things out of nothing or through some sort of magic replication as being "a miracle," it does seem worth noting that the digital era, and the fact that we've turned a ton of goods from scarce goods into abundant goods, is something of a miracle for society. It's really still quite stunning to think that so many people don't recognize how abundance is a good thing for the economy. The only people it hurts are those who continue to rely on business models that believe the abundant good is still scarce. Everyone else is better off.


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Families need not be Verizon customers or make a purchase at the store, and children do not have to meet any guidelines to receive backpacks.
The giveaway is part of a nationwide effort on the part of The Cellular Connection. The company will hand out 60,000 backpacks at its more than 400 locations across the country. Any leftover backpacks will be given to local schools.
Call the local The Cellular Connection store at 815-625-2096 for more information.


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It didn't take long for the Clippers to reveal their confidence level on the eve of preseason training camp.
When the theory that it takes NBA championship teams to advance incrementally in the playoffs over the years before reaching the pinnacle was mentioned, Chris Paul seemed incredulous.
"Do we feel like we can win one or two more rounds? No, no we don't think so," Paul deadpanned before going full CP3 mode. "We're here. We don't come into the season hoping to fail."
Fail, as in not win that NBA championship. That's where the Clippers' state of mind is heading into the 2013-14 season, one that begins with spitting out the bitter taste of a first-round defeat to Memphis and savoring the sweet smell of expectations as they hit their week of two-a-days at UC San Diego beginning on Tuesday.
New coach Doc Rivers wasn't even being too cryptic about it.
"I talk a lot of stuff," he said Monday at Clippers headquarters. "I'll let you say that, but I believe we can, yes. But we have a lot of work to do first. It's realistic for some, and hopefully we're in that some, and I believe that."
With that said, the Clippers, coming off a franchise-record 56-win season, are serious about proving their retooled roster has the right stuff to be a contender.
"We've proven we can win games," Rivers said. "What we haven't proven is that we can stay winning in the playoffs, and that's what we're here for."
It starts with Rivers, who led the Boston Celtics to the 2008 title. It goes to Paul, the engine and the will of the team. From there it goes to Blake Griffin, the all-everything talent who is aching to take the next leap not just to stardom, but being a difference-maker on a championship team. Then it heads to center DeAndre Jordan, who has been challenged to be the gatekeeper of a defensive-oriented team.
They're joined by the returning talents of Matt Barnes, Jamal Crawford, Willie Green and Ryan Hollins, and the three key acquisitions of J.J. Redick, Jared Dudley and Darren Collison.
It's going to take a lot to shake the confidence of this group.
"(Expectations) are going to be on us anyway, so you might as well embrace them," Rivers said. "I guess they're on us, I don't know what people are saying we should do. I know what I believe. I've always thought I would rather be with a group that has high expectations than a group that doesn't.
"Are we ready to embrace that? I don't know yet. That's what we're going to go on this journey and find out. I think we are."
"We have higher expectations for ourselves than anybody else," Griffin said. "We have made some strides as a program but we don't have any championships. That's the goal, that's the bottom line. We haven't really accomplished anything yet."
Rivers laid out the nuts and bolts of the challenges before the team, and they're really nothing new since Vinny Del Negro's contract was not renewed and he was hired following the Clippers' first-round flame-out against Memphis.
Rivers wants to see one of the premier offensive transition teams pay just as much attention to getting back on defense. Once there, he wants to see more defensive effort in the progression from guarding the paint to stretching themselves to get in the face of 3-point shooters.
"Vinny Del Negro did a sensational job with them defensively," Rivers said. "When you look at the numbers, we were a good defensive team last year. The areas where we struggled were huge.
"One was transition and with the athleticism we have, we should be a better defensive transition team and that comes from them. That doesn't come from the coaches or whatever. It's my job to force that. Then guard the 3-point line. In a league that shoots 3s, we have to get better at that."
To a man, the players acknowledged those team factors.
What may be most important to the Clippers in the long run is also embracing that their individual improvement must advance in order for the team to advance.
"I spent a little bit of time with Doc, we've talked a couple times," Paul said. "With all of us as professional athletes in anything, you always want somebody to push you and motivate you. The first meeting I had with Doc, he pretty much told me I wasn't anything. He told me I hadn't done anything in this league and he was right. You don't always want somebody who's going to tell you everything that you want to hear.
"Til somebody goes 100 percent from the field and stops someone every time on defense, you can always get better."
Griffin caught Rivers' eye with his offseason work and how he prioritized basketball over "other stuff." Griffin wasn't doing it just to earn favor with the new coach.
"This is a big year," Griffin said. "I need to step up and be one of those guys we can count on at the end of games. We put a lot on CP at the end of games to go make plays for us. This is a year where I feel like for us to take that next step, to get to where we want to, I need to take a step with us and make sure I'm a guy we can always count on — and not just scoring-wise, defensively, whatever it is, just making plays, just making things happen."
Jordan simply wants to live up to the challenge of becoming the premier defender in the league.
"I know that defensively it starts with me down there and I have to communicate to my teammates, but I have to set an example as well," Jordan said. "Defense is my main priority and offense is going to come second. I'm confident, he (Rivers) makes me even more confident and so do my teammates. It's going to take me to go out there and play the right way and help our team win."


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exercises its jurisdiction over United States citizens and vessels, and foreign persons and vessels otherwise subject to its jurisdiction, in the exercise of the high seas freedom to engage in exploration for, and commercial recovery of, hard mineral resources of the deep seabed in accordance with generally accepted principles of international law recognized by the United States; but
does not thereby assert sovereignty or sovereign or exclusive rights or jurisdiction over, or the ownership of, any areas or resources in the deep seabed.
(b) Secretary of State
The Secretary of State is encouraged to negotiate successfully a comprehensive Law of the Sea Treaty which, among other things, provides assured and nondiscriminatory access to the hard mineral resources of the deep seabed for all nations, gives legal definition to the principle that the resources of the deep seabed are the common heritage of mankind, and provides for the establishment of requirements for the protection of the quality of the environment as stringent as those promulgated pursuant to this chapter.
Until such a Treaty is concluded, the Secretary of State is encouraged to promote any international actions necessary to adequately protect the environment from adverse impacts which may result from any exploration for and commercial recovery of hard mineral resources of the deep seabed carried out by persons not subject to this chapter.
(Pub. L. 96–283, § 3, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 555.)
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PHILADELPHIA, May 5 (UPI) -- Limiting prolonged bottle feeding -- using a bottle at age 2 -- may be effective in helping children prevent obesity later in life, U.S. researchers suggest.
Dr. Robert Whitaker and Rachel Gooze of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University in Philadelphia and Dr. Sarah Anderson of The Ohio State University College of Public Health analyzed data on 6,750 children concerning bottle use at 24 months and the risk of obesity at age 5 1/2.
The study, published in The Journal of Pediatrics, found 22 percent of the chilren at age 2 used a bottle as their primary drink container and/or were put to bed with a calorie-containing bottle.
Nearly 23 percent of the prolonged bottle users were obese by the time they were 5 1.2 years old, the study says.
"A 24-month-old girl of average weight and height who is put to bed with an 8-ounce bottle of whole milk would receive approximately 12 percent of her daily caloric needs from that bottle," Gooze says in a statement.
Weaning children from the bottle by the time they are age 1 year is unlikely to cause harm and may prevent obesity, Gooze says.


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I recently got to spend some time with MeeGo, an Intel-sponsored Linux distribution designed for netbooks and other mobile devices (such as Nokia's extra-geeky N900 smartphone). I tested MeeGo on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook and I was extremely impressed.
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Really, this only sound childish in English speaking countries. In the rest of the world it is OK. webOS sounds like huevos in Spanish. I believe at the end of the day people don't care that much about the name.
FYI, webos is extremely hillarious in Spanish. We Spanish-speakers use "huevos" or "cojones" in an absurd variety of situations.
For instance: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&l...
So, when nissan discover to the rest of the world their then new model "pajero" was swiftly rebaptised in Spain as "montero" officially, since pajero is an obsesive masturbator.
Therefore, "webos" as a SO name is a STRONG handicap in Spanish-Speaker countries


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MOREHEAD CITY � Anglers had an additional challenge on their hands Tuesday during the second day of the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament.
MOREHEAD CITY � Anglers had an additional challenge on their hands Tuesday during the second day of the Big Rock Blue Marlin tournament.
As if finding and catching the elusive billfish isn�t hard enough, Mother Nature added another obstacle.
With 21 mph winds blowing in from the southwest and creating less-than-desirable weather conditions, only 10 out of the 100 boats entered in the tournament went out.
No marlin were brought in to the weigh station.
The winds created 4- to 7-foot swells, which would keep many captains off the water on any day.
�From what the guys that went out told me, they said, �It was like fishing in a washing machine,�� said Lee McLamb, owner of the Magic Moment. �It was really rough. The guys said that they couldn�t even get the outriggers out until after about half the fishing day was gone.�
Many may have hoped to catch lightning in a bottle and hook a blue marlin despite the poor conditions.
The crew of the Sensation landed a 423.8-pound big blue on Monday, the only blue marlin brought to the docks the first two days.
Big Rock regulations require each boat to take two days off from fishing, which the Sensation and 89 others did today.
Despite zero marlin, a massive Wahoo and several sizable dolphins were brought in. The Wahoo weighed in at 65.8 pounds to grab the lead in that category.
Alan Carroll of Smithfield reeled in the Wahoo aboard the Magic Moment.
Last year�s champion Wahoo was 53.1 pounds and fetched $4,675.
Builder�s Choice brought in a 32.5-pound dolphin, which was trumped by a 48.8-pounder caught on Goin� Deep.
Better conditions are expected today before things get ugly again Thursday, according to many captains who did not go out Tuesday.
Briefly: Fight-N-Lady won the billfish division of the 16th annual Keli Wagner Lady Angler, catching and releasing a blue marlin after an 11-minute fight to win $5,100. The normal one-day Lady Angler was expanded to Sunday because of Tropical Storm Andrea. As a result, no boats fished Saturday.
A total of 48 teams took part in the tournament, which saw 16 releases � five blue marlin, eight white marlin and three sailfish.


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March 18, 2013
News Release
Colorado recognizes 14 Highly Effective School Libraries
Today's most effective libraries are centers of activity with students sharing ideas and creating online displays of what they're learning. Those are hallmarks of the 14 Highly Effective School Library honorees announced today by the Colorado Department of Education.
In comparison with libraries in past decades, which were associated with keeping quiet, reading, and maintaining order, today's school libraries are the interactive hub of the school. They are places where active learning and inquiry are encouraged and explored. Students at these recognized libraries created blogs during an argumentative writing unit, created web pages to demonstrate learning in a science unit and offered constructive peer feedback to one another using Google comments.
"Twenty-first century skills are an essential component in education today, and effective school libraries and librarians are critical links for attaining these skills," said Eugene Hainer, assistant commissioner and state librarian at CDE. "Students can benefit from the district's support of these highly effective programs and the staff in the honored libraries."
Prior to applying, each teacher-librarian, along with their respective principal, assessed their library program using the "Highly Effective School Library Program Evaluation Rubric." This assessment tool outlines what a quality school library program should look like in areas such as student and teacher collaboration, differentiated instruction, curriculum development and leadership both within and outside the school community.
State and national studies conducted over the past two decades show that students in schools with endorsed librarians score better on standardized achievement tests in reading, compared with students in schools without endorsed librarians. The presence of school librarians positively impacted students' standardized reading scores even when controlling for student poverty (free and reduced-cost meals). Even if schools had overall staff declines between 2004 and 2008, students' standardized reading scores were better in schools that maintained or gained a licensed librarian.
Go to www.lrs.org/documents/school/school_library_impact.jpg to view a complete list of the study and its findings.
Commissioner of Education Robert Hammond will recognize the 14 libraries at the April State Board of Education meeting.
The Highly Effective School Library 2013 recipients are:
- Bennett High School, Bennett School District
- Bill Roberts ECE-8 School, Denver Public Schools
- Chipeta Elementary, Colorado Springs School District 11
- Deane Elementary, Jeffco Public Schools
- Eaglecrest High School, Cherry Creek Schools
- East Middle School, Mesa County Valley School District 51
- Holmes Middle School, Colorado Springs School District 11
- Horizon High School, Adams 12 Five Star Schools
- Ken Caryl Middle School, Jeffco Public Schools
- Martinez Elementary, Colorado Springs School District 11
- Ralston Elementary & Parmalee Elementary, Jeffco Public Schools
- Ryan Elementary, Boulder Valley School District
- Thomas Jefferson High School, Denver Public Schools
For more on these school libraries, click here.


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By Jessica Bowman – email
GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - Local and state dignitaries along with a member of the Obama Administration joined to applaud the rebuilding efforts of the Gulf Coast. They also recognized all those who have helped along the way. Hundreds of people gathered in front of Gulfport's City Hall to listen in as dignitaries praised their hard work and also took a look back at this day five years ago.
Sen Roger Wicker said, "My hat is off today to the resilient people of Mississippi. Particularly, South Mississippi for this time to rebuild."
Applause echoed through the streets as South Mississippians, volunteers and others gathered to remember the Katrina. Although Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was not here when the natural disaster struck, she re-assured the crowd that the Obama Administration feels the same pain.
"When President Obama entered office he made a commitment to stand with the people of the Gulf and finish the job of Katrina recovery. Over the past year and a half we have worked to uphold that promise.
Although South Mississippi shines bright once again, that devastating day five years ago plays back in the minds of many. First Lady Marsha Barbour was among many speakers to take the podium and share their personal experience with Katrina.
"A time to weep, a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance," said Sen. Wicker.
Bringing tears of pain back to life.
Marsha Barbour said, "We all know what a horrible week it was and how precious life can slip away so quickly."
As Barbour took a moment to recognize those who lost their life fighting during the storm, the crowd sympathized. But in the end those emotions turned into tears of happiness. Looking at where the coast has come 1,825 days later.
"We have a lot to be proud of, a lot to proud of and there are going to be many lessons learned all over the world because of Katrina," said Governor Haley Barbour.
Among the other speakers at the ceremony was Congressman Gene Taylor. Musician Paul Overstreet performed during the ceremony.
Copyright 2010 WLOX. All rights reserved.


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They say that when one door closes another opens and this is exactly what happened to the teenage boy who asked Kate Upton to be his prom date.
ABC reports that Jake Davidson, the boy who made a YouTube video inviting Upton to prom, won't have to attend the dance alone after she declined. Instead, he'll be taking Danish model Nina Agdal, who was named Sports Illustrated "Rookie of the Year" this year.
It is not clear how Davidson, 17, got in touch with Agdal, 21, but we might get some answers when the duo appears in an episode of "Inside Edition."


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Smedley's Force India comments 'a bit out of order' - Head
Williams co-founder Patrick Head believes Rob Smedley's criticism of Force India after Felipe Massa and Sergio Perez tangled at the Canadian Grand Prix was "a bit out of order".
Smedley, Williams' head of vehicle performance, said Perez was to blame for the shunt and questioned whether the Force India should have been running after radio calls between driver and pit wall about the car's brakes. Smedley argued that Williams had ordered Valtteri Bottas to back off with brake issues in the same race and, in reference to Perez's Force India, said: "Why you leave a car out when you've got that sort of problem is a little bit beyond me."
After his comments had been reported, Force India responded with a statement from Perez saying the car was "perfectly driveable". Head believes Smedley's criticism was misplaced and probably made out of frustration.
"Any team that starts fourth and fifth on the grid, if you finish with one car seventh you are going to be very disappointed," Head told Sky Sports F1 Midweek Report. "I saw that Rob Smedley, the operations manager, had criticised Force India, which I think was a bit out of order. But it told me that he was massively disappointed after the race, and I think they would be and should be."
Head is no longer on the board of the F1 team but remains involved with the company through Williams Hybrid Power Limited. He believes the team has underachieved so far this season given the car at its disposal.
"I hope there will be other chances [to win] going forward, but it [Canada] was certainly a very good opportunity. Williams have really not achieved what the car is capable of this year, and they know that. Here was another event where that happened. It's something I'm sure they will put right, but you want to walk away with a lot of points and those are missing a bit at the moment."


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YREKA, Calif. — The accomplice of a Medford woman accused of murdering her husband in Siskiyou County last fall was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday afternoon after family members from both sides of the case spoke passionately for and against a stiff sentence, prosecutors said.
Amber Lubbers, 27, of Medford, pleaded guilty Thursday in Siskiyou County Superior Court to one count of being an accessory after the fact to the November murder of 34-year-old Michael Christopher MacCallum. She received the maximum sentence allowed by California law, said Siskiyou County District Attorney Kirk Andrus.
"She was there during the commission of the crime and she participated in trying to cover it up," said Andrus.
MacCallum's body was found Nov. 20 at the base of a steep cliff south of Applegate Lake and the California border. An autopsy revealed MacCallum had been shot.
The main suspect in the case is MacCallum's wife, 26-year-old Patricia MacCallum, who is facing a first-degree murder charge. She and Lubbers were arrested Dec. 7 in Medford.
Lubbers pleaded guilty to the single count in February, as she and MacCallum appeared together in a preliminary hearing. Lubbers then testified against MacCallum in court that day. Lubbers, the first to be arrested in the case, had previously made statements to investigators about her role in the alleged cover-up, Andrus said.
"She gave us a lot of information about the event, and even in the planning," Andrus said. "Her testimony is the way we will prove our murder case. We still have a murder trial to go through."
Michael MacCallum worked in Medford as a driver for Checker Cab and as a bartender. The victim had celebrated his birthday Nov. 17, and had been on a camping trip in northern Siskiyou County near the Oregon border.
His mother made an impassioned speech at Lubbers' sentencing, seeking the maximum penalty allowed by law, Andrus said.
"She made a very powerful statement on behalf of her son," he said, adding that Lubbers did not contest her sentence.
Lubbers' friends and family members also attended the sentencing, Andrus said. Lubbers father-in-law also spoke, he said.
"He reminded the judge that Lubbers' children also needed her," Andrus said.
Both Lubbers and Patricia MacCallum have young children.
Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey has said investigators have a motive and evidence against MacCallum, but he has declined to reveal them.
MacCallum's trial date is set for Aug. 1. If convicted on the first-degree murder charge, MacCallum faces a sentence of 25 years to life under California law.
Andrus does not anticipate offering a plea agreement to MacCallum.
"Certainly not anything that's not life in prison," Andrus said.
Reach reporter Sanne Specht at 541-776-4497 or e-mail email@example.com.
Murder accomplice sentenced to 3 years
YREKA, Calif. — The accomplice of a Medford woman accused of murdering her husband in Siskiyou County last fall was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday afternoon after family members from both sides of the case spoke passionately for and against a stiff sentence, prosecutors said.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the
Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
Scattering Seeds
By John A. Murphy
As an institution, the United States Supreme Court has a profound impact upon our country and its citizens. Its nine justices, appointed for life, but with no power to tax, to legislate, and limited power to enforce their decisions, must rely upon their persuasive powers, and the consent of the governed, to carry out their critically important mission.
. . .
One little understood tool used to accomplish that task is the writing of dissenting opinions. A knowledgeable author has recently opined that dissents from the majority (ruling) opinion serve three important purposes: first, they play a role in the dialogue that the justices have among themselves. Second, a dissent can play a critical role in the ongoing dialogue the Court has with the executive and legislative branches of the national government. Third, a dissent are an important part of the dialogue the Court has with all of us, that is, the citizenry of this nation.
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Dissents have, in a number of important instances, become precursors of majority opinions rendered years after the dissent. In these cases, the lonely dissenter, initially viewed as a voice crying out all alone, later becomes seen as prescient, a true visionary of what our constitutionally protected freedoms can do for each and every citizen.
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Homework assignment: name a biographical fact that the first Portuguese American justice, the first African American justice, the first Italian American justice, and the first Hispanic American justice, have in common.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, June 16, 1911
Mr. George B. Wakes has the record for the big tautog of the season thus far, having taken one weighing 10 pounds at Ferry wharf recently.
The fleet of small boats off the shore is being increased daily. Already there are quite a number in commission and more are being put in readiness to launch.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 16, 1936
A gala day was held at the Beaver Tail Country Club Sunday, when a buffet luncheon was tendered by Audley Clarke to the men who have been working at the club for the past few weeks getting it in readiness for the opening day, June 26.
From the Newport Daily News, June 19, 1936
The flag was raised on the Conanicut Yacht Club Thursday morning, although the official opening and the first races of the season will be held July 4. U.S. Gooby, in charge of the club, reported W.W. Watson's Cape Cod knockabout, "Teen," and Slingluff's Marconi "Panther," moored off the club's pier. Miss Marguerite Levey's yacht, "Wild Duck," is expected to arrive today.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, June 13, 1961
The Jamestown police department is preparing for the heavy traffic expected during the June 30-July 3 Music at Newport Festival weekend. Arthur Meyers, chief of the ferry division, asked the [town] council to giver special police status to the [ferry] pursers. He felt that they "run into situ- ations when a badge is necessary." From the Newport Daily News,
June 14, 1961
Joseph W. Walsh, Jamestown school committee chairman, proposed changes in the curriculum and in school policies last night at the School Committee meeting.
1. Science should be taught by a science teacher in all grades, beginning with the first grade.
2. We are considering the possibility of children changing rooms for some subjects studied.
3. We are going to study the possibility of Group teaching such as first aid, health and safety, R.I. history, and music and use the allpurpose room for these classes.
4. We are going to make a study of homework policy.
5. We wish to see more done in all grades to emphasize creative thinking, writing, and speaking.
6. We intend to investigate the marking system this summer to evaluate it in terms of what areas it does not cover and what might be done to improve it.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News,
June 11, 1986
More than $100,000 in repairs are needed on the piers and under the deck of the Jamestown Bridge before the new span is completed. The bridge will remain open through out the project, but some of the time traffic will have to be restricted to a single lane. From the Newport Daily News,
June 12, 1986
Save the Bay's directors want some of the Jamestown Bridge saved as a fishing pier and for "passive" public recreational use. From the Newport Daily News,
June 16, 1986
The R.I. Parks Association will celebrate the Tall Ships "Parade of Sail" with two days of special events at Beavertail and Fort Wetherill State Parks, June 30 and July 1 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds from the celebration will benefit the renovation of the assistant keeper's house at Beavertail Light.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 13, 1986
For the first time in many years, Jamestown may have its own Fourth of July fireworks, but they would be a little early – on July 2. The Town Council Monday voted to grant Community Chorus leader B.J. Whitehouse and Community Band drummer Fred Brome use of the town beach at Mackerel Cove as the staging area for a public fireworks display.
Plans were unveiled this week for a new Veterans' Memorial at East Ferry. The 10 wars or confl icts in which Jamestowners have served are represented on new granite markers inscribed individually the set flush within the brick.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
June 14, 2001
Last Friday, Gov. Lincoln Almond's office released a report to the state General Assembly requesting that the legislature appropriate $2.5 million in the year's budget to begin a lengthy permitting process to determine the economic and environmental feasibility of putting a container port at Quonset Point.
The island's windmill will be the centerpiece of an event that is guaranteed to draw crowds of all ages to celebrate its re-opening this Saturday in a day being called "1895 on Windmill Hill."


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Can VMware boost profits by expanding from data centers to clouds?
Gelsinger & Co. think so – and thus Virtzilla is born
Analysis Big cloudy startups build their infrastructure on custom – or, at the very least, cheap – iron, and they use open source software because they like to – and often need to – tweak the systems software to make their workloads hum. And that's a problem for VMware.
And it's a big problem, one that makes the company irrelevant except to enterprise customers who have by and large chosen its server virtualization technologies for their data centers and who have not yet decided what to do about all this cloud noise.
If companies decide to be more like Google, Facebook, and Amazon – which is by no means a foregone conclusion – they will do a radical change in the way applications are developed and deployed.
And incidentally, in that world the new Pivotal spinoff from VMware and EMC, which was detailed by the two companies on Wednesday at a meeting with Wall Street analysts in New York, will perhaps be a lot more relevant than VMware, so VMware had better hope and pray and sacrifice whatever chickens it can find that companies do not want to be like hyperscale web operators, and that they just want to virtualize their servers, storage, and networks and automate the operation of them, largely on plain-old x86 rack servers.
Because in that world, VMware still has a place, and one that it can expand from a fairly modest addressable market of maybe $6bn to what VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger explained to Wall Street would be a $50bn market by 2016 according to VMware's prognosticators.
As Gelsinger explained, the server virtualization racket is doing just fine, with a total addressable market (TAM) of $6bn and a compound annual growth rate of 10 per cent per year over 2012 through 2016, by VMware and EMC estimates. This is a pretty good business, and one that is growing considerably better than the actual physical server biz, which most industry analysts expect to go flat over the same period in terms of revenue and see modest shipment increases if all goes well.
All may not go well as virtualization software improves and vendors cram more and more cores into a CPU socket. The desire for more computing capacity among the elite hyperscale cloud operators who might account for 25 per cent of server shipments has to grow a lot faster than the relatively more modest needs of enterprise data centers for the overall server racket to grow.
VMware's total addressable market will expand to $50bn by 2016, says CEO Pat Gelsinger
At some point, virtualization (which lets a server run multiple workloads interleaved on the same system) and cloud computing (which interleaves computing across multiple divisions or groups within a company on private clouds and across companies in public clouds) work against the Moore's Law advancements. Server makers want to sell more boxes at given price points, which is where there margins lie, but chip makers want to sell just enough more computing per per chip to catch the interest of buyers, but not so much that it grossly impacts volumes and therefore unit costs.
There is a lot of tension in here among users, server makers, and Intel and AMD and their non-x86 competitors.
Small wonder that Gelsigner said this week in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that he doesn't want to be the next CEO at Intel. It's going to be a lot tougher to run a chip business than to run VMware.
Unless, of course, you believe that VMware's attempts to virtualize networking and storage turn out to be incredibly more difficult than the virtualization juggernaut believes. The server-virtualization wave was done with server makers, despite the fact that it went against some of their own interests (selling more boxes regardless of the ridiculously low efficiency of compute on the boxes). It's hard to imagine that network vendors are just going to roll over and let VMware own software-defined networking – but thus far, Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, HP, and IBM show no such interest.
VMware, with its Horizon tools, has put a big stake in the ground to virtualize and stream end-user computing in many different ways from the data center, and Gelsinger believes that the TAM for end-user computing will be $8bn and grow at a 20 per cent or higher growth rate compounded between 2012 and 2016.
The software-defined data center – or SDDC as VMware likes to call it – consists of all of the vCloud orchestration tools that ride on top of the ESXi hypervisor and plug into the vCenter Server management console to turn it into a cloud plus the underlying compute virtualization. This aggregate SDDC market is growing at around 20 per cent per year or higher, by estimates cooked up by VMware, and will have a market size of about $28bn by 2016. That implies that the management and orchestration extensions in the vCloud stack that VMware has developed and will develop over the next few years will have a growth rate on the order of around 25 per cent.


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GEORDIE Shore lass Vicky Pattison is set to tie the knot. And who better to be bridesmaids than her mint co-stars?
Lads, lots of strippers, shots, dancing, the best party we have ever thrown
Despite her relationship with Ricci Guarnaccio having more ups and downs than a Geordie girl drinking Jägerbombs, Vicky, 25, can't wait to get wed.
So we invited Newcastle's finest foursome into Daily Star HQ for a hen-party photoshoot to find out exactly what sort of send-off her pals are planning.
Vicky might have nicknamed her bridesmaids Dopey (Charlotte Crosby, 21), Slutty (Holly Hagan, 19) and Vulgar (Sophie Kasai, 20), but they are determined to make sure she has the night of her life.
"Vicky's last night of freedom will have to be off the scale," says Charlotte. "We will make sure it is the most outrageous and best night she has ever had."
Man-eater Vicky fell for new housemate Ricci, 25, in the last series and we watched him propose during their summer show, Chaos In Cancun.
She asked her fellow housemates to be bridesmaids earlier this month. But did she make the right decision? "I love the movie Bridesmaids and I wanted it to be just like that," she tells us.
And she jokes: "Besides, I will get them the most hideous meringue, taffeta bridesmaid dresses I can find to make me look better. So everyone's a winner."
Luckily, the other lasses are too busy rolling around the floor of the studio and trying on our bag of hen-party goodies to hear.
Vicky adds: "This slumber-party is pretty tame compared to how mine is going to be."
As it's the bridesmaids who normally plan the hen party, we can't wait to ask Charlotte, Holly and Sophie what they're plotting.
Holly squeals: "Lads, lots of strippers, shots, dancing, the best party we have ever thrown. And I can tell you now it will not be in Newcastle. We've done it all in Geordie Shore so we have to top it."
Charlotte adds: "Alton Towers! Drinking shots on the rides and the haunted house."
Sophie says: "I want a My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding bridesmaid dress. Flashing lights, loads of layers.
"Lets all chip in for a private party jet to Ibiza for the hen do.
"We will go on a three-day hen party to the best clubs in the world." Vicky grins: "That sounds canny good for a start."
For the wedding she wants the dress worn by Carrie in the Sex And The City movie, and lots of booze.
In the meantime in tonight's episode, with Ricci and Sophie having been asked to leave the house after a row at the engagement party the week before, the rest of the gang decide on a trip to Liverpool to cheer themselves up.
However, when housemate James Tindale reveals a secret he's been keeping from the house and mortal drunk Charlotte climbs into Gary's bed, things don't seem to be getting any better.
Vicky explains: "Nothing's right after our engagement party. I'm missing Ricci.
"Plus I've noticed a change in James. He's not running around after Scott and Gaz pulling birds."
Sophie reckons there will be more action to come from Vicky and Ricci before they live happily ever after.
"Every relationship in Geordie Shore has its ups and downs," she says. "There's bound to be lots of drama along the way."
Watch Geordie Shore tonight at 10pm on MTV – it's MINT! mtv.co.uk/geordieshore


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You thought the big news would've been Jimmy Rollins being activated, but the move the Phillies made to accomodate him is an eyebrow-raiser.
The Phillies have designated Greg Dobbs for assignment, essentially meaning they have 10 days to either trade or release him or place him on waivers.
Dobbs, who was one of the top pinch-hitters in the National League in 2007 and 2008, was 1-for-25 as a pinch-hitter while hitting .152 with one home run and six RBI overall.
The Phillies have also placed catcher Carlos Ruiz on the disabled list while recalling leftander Mike Zagurski from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
In 2007 and 2008, Dobbs hit .284/.331/.467 (.798 OPS) with 19 home runs and 95 RBI in 598 plate appearances. During the Phillies' run to their title in 2008, he went 7-for-14 with two runs scored and two walks. But he struggled throughout last season, hitting .247/.296/.383 (.679 OPS) with five home runs in 169 plate appearances, including a 9-for-54 performance as a pinch-hitter.
Dobbs battled a calf injury that he suffered in 2008 throughout the 2009 season, but proclaimed himself healthy this spring.
In 28 starts last season, he hit a respectable .309/.340/.489 (.829 OPS) with four home runs in 103 plate appearances.
This year, though, he has made just five starts, going 8-for-36 (.222) with two doubles and one home run.
Zagurski appeared in 25 games in 2007 as a 24-year-old, allowing 14 earned runs, 25 hits and 11 walks in 21.1 innings (5.91 ERA) while striking out 21.
He suffered a season-ending hamstring injury that year, then missed all of 2008 after undergoing Tommy John surgery. In 45 appearances at Double-A Reading last year, he posted a 3.57 ERA while striking out 63 and walking 27 in 53 innings. This season, he posted impressive strikeout numbers (45 in 30.2 innings) at Triple-A Lehigh Valley while posting a 2.35 ERA and 1.141 WHIP.
Ruiz was hit in the head with a bat on a follow-through in the eighth inning against the Twins Friday night and was taken to the hospital for tests. Ruiz has not played since with a concussion, but two days ago the Phillies said they did not think he would need a stint on the disabled list.
Ruiz, who has been replaced by journeyman Dane Sardinha, will be eligible to return on July 4, when the Phillies are wrapping up a series in Pittsburgh.


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BUFFALO — The Cuomo administration will have to wait to hammer a handful of school districts, including Fallsburg, for lacking a contract on new teacher evaluations.
BUFFALO — The Cuomo administration will have to wait to hammer a handful of school districts, including Fallsburg, for lacking a contract on new teacher evaluations.
A state Supreme Court judge Thursday blocked New York from withholding the money. Gov. Andrew Cuomo wanted to hold back $250 million from New York City schools and hundreds of thousands of dollars from Fallsburg. In granting a preliminary injunction, Justice Manuel Mendez said a lawsuit brought by a group of parents challenging the penalty has merit.
He froze any sanctions pending final outcome of the case. Cuomo's administration said it would appeal. The lawsuit contends it would be unconstitutional to withhold money from students who had nothing to do with an impasse between the city and the United Federation of Teachers about how to measure the performance of teachers and principals.
A state law pushed by Cuomo to protect federal Race to the Top money required all of New York's nearly 700 school districts to have an approved evaluation system in place by Jan. 17 in order to receive a state aid increase in the current school year.
New York City was among a handful of districts to miss the deadline.
Fallsburg, in Sullivan County, did as well. It faces losing $109,000, according to the state education website. Fallsburg schools Superintendent Ivan Katz said state education officials told him the penalty could be as high as $500,000. Katz said the district received a state aid payment Jan. 8 and there was no reduction.
"I am absolutely aware of it (the lawsuit); I am absolutely watching it," Katz said. He said the district and the teachers' union have been working "at a feverish pace" and were close to completing the evaluation plan.
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I used to collect baseball cards, but I sold most of them nine years ago when Tracy and I had to make room for cribs and baby strollers. Today, I'm a novice collector of deer hunting memorabilia, and this photo is as valuable as Honus Wagner's Pittsburgh Pirates card from 1911. Well, it's more valuable to me, anyway.
Interestingly, this deer camp photo might be older than those rare Wagner baseball cards. The photo, I'm told, was taken sometime between 1904 and 1918 in northern Wisconsin. It appears that at least two of the hunters were shooting flintlocks — not exactly the best deer rifle in the woods, but it looks like it most certainly did the job.
What I find even more interesting is the fact that one of the hunters (third from the right) is a woman. Of the thousands of old-time deer hunting photos that I've seen over the years, this is only the second one in which a woman hunter is pictured. The fact that she participated — and apparently was successful — makes her one of our sport's true pioneers. From the looks of it, she might have even been responsible for the biggest deer on the meat pole. Whatever the case, her group certainly knew how to hunt deer.
Fast forward to today. According to a survey by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the female demographic is the fastest growing segment of the hunting population. True, only 9 percent of America's 10.6 million deer hunters are females, but that only tells part of the story. Of those 954,000 hunters, 300,000+ are ages 6 to 15.
If that isn't a sign of hope for our future, I don't know what is.


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It's always perplexing when people assume that once one's past a certain age, that they stop caring about how they look (not sure what that age is exactly). That somehow reaching the milestones of life: marriage, divorce, kids, career and the need to carry reading glasses) sends a woman straight into shapeless clothes and uninspired outfits. I think this is a load of b.s. Nearly everyone I know cares about how they look at some level, even if they don't take it to the heights of being a devout fashionista.
Probably, more often than not, what happens is that our life changes, but our closets don't really keep up with us. There are the unavoidable weight gains of pregnancy and menopause that force us to eye our pants with increasing loathing or roll our eyes when our shirt no longer skims easily over our belly. This is life and it happens to all women. The best thing we can do for ourselves is to build a closet full of clothes we love — whatever moment we are in, in our life. I would much rather have fewer clothes and love them, than to have a lot of things that make me feel cruddy when I put them on.
It's not often that I run across street style shots of older women. So many of the shots I find are of women who look like they're in their 20s or not much beyond. Today I'm happy to share some pictures of women who've seen some milestones. I can't be sure what those milestones are, but I like that they are still dressing for life, whatever that life is right now. These women are keeping up with the times, looking modern, confident and vibrant. I'd even venture a guess that none of them wish they were 20 again.
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You may have recognized notifications confirming that the recipient of your Facebook Messages and Chat had seen your messages in the first place. They're being held accountable for the conversation and you no longer have to wonder if the recipient had seen those messages. Facebook announced that it is now bringing the same concept to Facebook Groups, which will display the names and number of people that have seen each post.
The notification will appear as a small "Seen by [X number of members]" button next to the number of likes the post has received — an invasive feature which could end up causing users to log on so much. Hovering over the button will reveal who and exactly at what time the member has seen the post. Any group member who you have given permission to view the post to will see the notification.
Other social networks including LinkedIn and Path already offer features that notify users about who viewed your profile or content. On LinkedIn and Path, visitors to your profile can be viewed. Path on the other hand also offers users a feature to see who has "read" or scrolled through your content. While it's a feature that could offer analytics to Group members and Fan Page administrators as well as hold members accountable for their participation, a "read receipt" feature such as this may be best suited solely for productivity purposes. For non-professional uses, it just seems creepy.


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Amanda Wolfe had been studying in the Hannon Library Sunday when she received news that a five-month search for her missing grandfather was over.
Her dad called to tell her, but spotty cellphone service prevented her from getting the whole message at first.
"All I could hear was that they found grandpa," Wolfe said.
A 20-year-old sophomore studying elementary education, Wolfe ran outside to confirm. The body of 87-year-old Truman Tollefson had been found, five months to the day after he'd gone missing.
A Rogue River man on the hunt for firewood spotted Tollefson's vehicle, a 1981 Buick Century, near milepost 9 of Upper Grave Creek Road at 11 a.m. Sunday.
A body, whom police believed to be Tollefson's, lay nearby. Authorities do not suspect foul play. The Jackson County Medical Examiner's Office is expected to confirm the body's identity this week.
"I'm doing OK, just because it's good to know that everything's over," Wolfe said. "It's also really sad to find out he isn't alive."
Tollefson disappeared on Dec. 5, 2012. He'd gone on a couple of errands, first to the bank, then to Safeway. It was a routine he'd done many times before. The last known image shows him in Wells Fargo Bank at 5:13 p.m. When Tollefson failed to return home, Medford police and Jackson County Sheriff's Department's Search & Rescue combed rural areas across the region, from the ground and air, looking for him.
"All evidence indicates that it's a situation where he got disoriented, confused, drove up into the middle of nowhere and died as a result of exposure," said Medford police Lt. Mike Budreau.
"I don't think we're ever going to know why he took a right or a left," Budreau added.
As days turned into months, Wolfe said she and other family members began to come to terms with Tollefson's disappearance.
"We kind of moved on. Now it's like we have to relive this all over again," she said.
"It's really hard for me to picture him and understand that's how he died."
Family members said Tollefson was lucid and did not exhibit signs of dementia prior to his disappearance.
"That's the only part that you're like, 'What the heck happened?' How he got from point A to point B in such a wrong manner," Wolfe said.
Wolfe added she and her family can now start to move on, though Tollefson will be missed. She remembers him as a selfless man and hard worker who loved sports and his family. He was a chocolate fan and shared that love with chocolatey gifts he gave to family members.
"He always had something for you," Wolfe said.
Wolfe also remembers riding in Tollefson's old Chevy pickup, the one he named Walter. Because of that, many of Wolfe's family members have also named their own cars.
"I think that's probably my biggest memory of him," Wolfe said.
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Amanda Wolfe had been studying in the Hannon Library Sunday when she received news that a five-month search for her missing grandfather was over.


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Demi Lovato Admits There's "Nothing Going On" Between Her and One Direction's Niall Horan
Months ago, the rumor that Demi Lovato and Niall Horan were dating was like, the best news we'd heard in ages. We even put Deniall up against Jelena for best sorta-celeb couple! But guys, it looks like the rumors are just that — rumors — and the pop star and the 1D dude are "just friends." Psh. Yeah. We've heard that one before. But Demi, while doing press for TONIGHT'S premiere of The X-Factor, insisted that "there is nothing going on" between the pals and, as it turns out, they met for the first time just last week after the MTV VMAS! And there you have it, ladies and gents. Just don't blame us for lying if they get married and have babies one day because we're just the messengers in this situation.
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela' acting president, Nicolas Maduro, accused his opponent over the weekend of seeking to provoke violence by scheduling a dueling campaign rally in the same western state next week.
Opposition leaders countered that it's reasonable to expect that both campaigns can hold events peaceably on Tuesday in the state of Barinas, where the late President Hugo Chavez was born.
Campaigning in Barinas, Maduro told a crowd of supporters that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles' decision to campaign in the city of Barinas, the state capital, was a "provocation," especially because Maduro had announced plans to campaign the state by bus that day. It was unclear so far whether the candidates would be campaigning in the same city at the same time Tuesday.
Maduro urged his followers to resist the temptation to fall into violence.
"They have decided to commit the first act of violence on Tuesday, here in Barinas. That's why [Capriles] decided to come here, to provoke the people," Maduro said. "I have proof of what they're planning."
However, Maduro offered no details.
During a heated and often personal campaign, Maduro and Capriles have traded insults, and Maduro has occasionally alluded to plots to destabilize the country, again without any evidence.
Carlos Ocariz, a top adviser to the Capriles campaign, told a news conference that Maduro's statements reflected "nervousness" about the election's outcome.
"We believe that in Venezuela, various political events can be held on the same day" in the same locale, Ortiz said.
Nominally, Tuesday marks the official start of Venezuela's abbreviated campaign before the April 14 election. In reality, the campaign started just days after Chavez's death March 5 from cancer, and it has only intensified since. Both candidates have relentlessly campaigned across the South American country.
Maduro was Chavez's vice president and became acting president after Chavez died. He is seeking outright election to a six-year presidential term.
Capriles is governor of the central state of Miranda. He lost a hard-fought presidential election to Chavez in October.
The city of Barinas is located 390 kilometers (230 miles) southwest of Caracas and is near the plains town of Sabaneta, where Chavez was born in 1954.
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How do I wear a skirt with boots?
We've watched boots go from a boys-only shoe to a girls' wardrobe essential. And while we love these sturdy kicks styled with a good ole pair of jeans, we have grown to love them most worn with ultra feminine skirts. Here are three parings you must try!
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A cut-off, cowboy-inspired boot can look sweet and ironic paired with a little skirt that fits and flares. Be sure to find a boot that hits below the ankle and has a roomy opening to strategically flatter the leg. We love a dusty brown or black boot—reminiscent of the real deal—and a skirt that has enough flounce and femininity to add shape and playfulness to your look.
So you've ordered your '70s-inspired boots, seen all over the fall runways, and now you are wondering how to wear them. Our advice? Be directional. Try an A-line skirt that fits to right below the knee, ideally in a denim, plaid tweed, or cord. Throw on a chunky cable knit sweater or cardigan and perhaps some thick tights, and you are straight out of Love Story.
If you don't already own a pointed ankle boot with a serious heel, then drop what you are doing and go buy a pair. Think of this shoe as an edgier version of a heel, but with equal swag and sex appeal. We love this boot paired with an at-the-knee (or right below the knee) pencil skirt that hugs your hips and elongates your legs. The tighter the better! While you can't strike out with a classic black bootie, take a risk with a print or pattern—like leopard or checkerboard—and watch how it works seamlessly with any skirt you have.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 22:31 UTC
Ars has reviewed the brand new iMac. They conclude: "The Intel Macs are fast, the majority of apps have been released as Universal Binaries, and Apple's product line - including the new iMac - is in a good place. The iMac is also competitive on price with other all-in-one PCs, so if you absolutely love the all-in-one form factor, the iMac is one of lower-priced options available. If you've been holding on to your Power PC Mac and waiting for the right time to make the big switch to Intel, the appearance of the new iMac marks an excellent opportunity." CNet also has a review.
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I think it's great that the new iMac is available now but isn't this bad timing on Apple's part?
Well, on one hand it's just in time for the back-to-school season (I don't know, maybe there's a student out there who is fine with their laptop and just wants an iMac) but Leopard is only a few months away. I'm sure a lot of people are still holding out on upgrades till Leopard. Like me for instance.
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