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Evolutionary experience: Rule-fighting Arby's becomes A Patriot's Place
Forest Lakes Arby's owner Tom Slonaker has never been shy about promoting his business while expressing his libertarian beliefs, a tendency that's got him in some hot water with County officials over the years, and those beliefs appear to have helped create a new restaurant concept.
Slonaker has repeatedly defied a County zoning ordinance prohibiting commercial flags (an ordinance that has been in place since 1969) by hoisting an Arby's flag in front of his restaurant, along with signs for another business he owns. In 2003, Slonaker even hosted a "rally around the flag" event by handing out little Arby's flags for people to put on their cars, and portraying the situation as a property rights issue.
Later, he claimed the sign ordinance was enforced unevenly against businesses along 29 North, and he filed a civil suit against the county with the help of the Rutherford Institute, which argued that Slonaker's First Amendment rights were being trampled on.
Last year, however, a judge ruled that Slonaker had violated the sign ordinance and slapped him with $1,000 fines for several violations.
Meanwhile, Slonaker has also been having issues with Arby's corporate rules, which have not allowed him to
add his own menu items. Specifically, he's wanted to add soft-serve ice cream and "pressure cooked chicken," which he describes as "fried chicken without all the grease."
"People rave about it," he says. "We've invested quite alot in the equipment."
So, after 11 years as an Arby's franchise, Slonaker says he cut ties with the company and has yanked the Arby's logos off the side of the building. Indeed, almost overnight, the restaurant looked like a polling place around the time of Election Day. Slonaker had covered the roadside Arby's signs with white banners encouraging people to vote, put up American flags everywhere, and renamed the restaurant A Patriot's Place.
"This country, this town is so divided," says Slonaker in a distinctive radio announcer's voice. "I hope this new concept conveys to people that we have to come together to fix the problems of this country."
Slonaker says he hopes people can come to Patriot's Place to eat good American food and learn about the words and the ideals of the founding fathers. He's calling it a "revolutionary" experience.
Indeed, before the election Slonaker hosted a town hall meeting at his Arby's between eventually defeated Rep. Tom Perriello and local Tea Party activists.
"I've known Tom since he was a little boy," says Slonaker. "And I knew his father, Dr. Vito Perriello. I have a lot of admiration for him."
Slonaker points to the Perriello town hall meeting as the kind of thing he hopes A Patriot's Place will help promote, in which opposing groups can come together to work out their differences.
However, the success of the concept may also depend on the economy, which Slonaker admits has been rough on the business. Development and allegedly overburdensome county regulations haven't helped either, he says.
As Slonaker mentions, his Arby's was unique in that part of town a decade ago, but it had become just one of many fast food restaurants in the area.
"If I'm going to lose money," he says, "I might as well do it on my own terms."
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Can I still get that delicious and healthy Arby's food at the A Patriot's Place?
I never gave that Arby's any business because they never seemed to be open when I wanted to get something.
I do admire Mr. Slonaker for wanting to bring people together to try and solve our problems. I hope that is contagious. Maybe I will give 'A Patriots Place' a try.
Tom Slonaker is my new hero. I am going to A Patriots Place next to,e I am in Cville. Thank GOd for people like him!
Col. Forbin;
Were you born a tool or were you trained up to be one?
Seriously though, "rules are rules" as a statement is of a piece with "it is what it is" and is a classic tautology. There is a plethora of arbitary, capricious, and unreasonable rules extant in this society. Passive acceptance is a guaranty they'll remain in place and be supplemented by more of the same. Pushback against rules which have tenuous, at best, connections to any true public good is our duty if we wish to be a people with any prospects for individual self determination.
Tom just follow the rules. Nut case!
It's funny how, now that the tea-baggers got their boy in office, we're all supposed to come together and hold hands and sing kumbaya.
I predict he'll be out of business in six months. You can't make money off the Tea Party crowd with their senior discounts and insistence on using coupons for every meal.
Who is being a tool here?
Tom Slonaker's problem is that he behaves as if EVERY rule he encounters is "arbitary, capricious, and unreasonable." That just ain't the case.
this man sells slop produced by agribusiness and calls it food
what a hero and patriot
...and thus begins the ultimate demise of the restaurant formerly known as Arby's of Forest Lakes. I imagine Mr. Slonaker discounts the business he derived from the Arby's brand. And a previous commenter is right - the far-right/tea baggers have co-opted the word "Patriot" and using that will DEFINITELY turn away a huge percentage of the potential clientele. But Slonaker has been turning people off for years, so now he'll be turning off Democrats and Independents as well as people who find his very public stances annoying.
I wonder what it'll become next? Too small to become an Antique Mall, I suppose.
I would like to see Lowes become an antique mall.
Can't we get a Home Depot in Charlottesville? Or is politics still involved heavily in that too?
Thanks so much for clearing up what exactly happened. I'd been wondering what had happened, since it was clearly not an Arby's anymore.
However, I'm not terribly impressed with the man. As a resident of Forest Lakes, I've encountered and heard so many negative stories about him. As other posters have already pointed out, he seems to be the type of person that believes rules shouldn't apply to HIM. He complains constantly about how his rights are supposedly being violated. And yet, he has absolutely NO respect for other people's rights. Notice that he refuses to move his vehicles out of the Food Lion parking lot, blocking visibly in that corner while ignoring that it is NOT his property? He's got his own parking lot, but seems to think it's better to use what belongs to others.
Freedom of speech protects all speech including those of libertarians in liberal communities. This gentleman is only doing what he believes to be right... and his buffalo chicken wrap is awesome.
I still wonder why people become "residents of Forest Lakes", and then whine about the business district a stone throw away from their back door. Can you explain this phenomenon to us please, Harostar?
And if we go back to the beginning of the local Slonaker Adventures, the nerve of that man placing signs advertising his specials meals and deals in the windows of his business. Didn't he realize or care that this was going to make Forest Lakes look like a ghetto?
By the way, has the county forced nTelos to remove their armored car out front advertsing their business yet? What a clever way to get around the sign ordinances in Albemarle County! HAHAHA! In other words, Slonaker has been singled out for harassment, IMHO.
I suspect Conservative was "educated" in a christian "school." I went to some pretty awful public schools, but the kids who transferred in from former segregation academies always struggled to catch up when they arrived. No surprise they are struggling still.
Re: the statement "Slonaker is a patriot, perrello is a communist." It is quite possible to be both a patriot and a communist, so without speaking to both attributes of both Mr. Slonaker and Mr. Perriello, the attempted comparison is meaningless. That's ignoring the fact that M. Perriello has nothing to do with local sign ordinances, but lets just take things slowly for the differently abled among us.
Branding political opponents as "Communists" or "Marxists," etc. is kind of cute in a childlike way, but rather than damaging the reputation of the one branded with that attempted slur, it in most cases merely reveals the phenomenal ignorance of the accuser. Wikipedia is a poor source of in depth information, but even a cursory scan of that poor source would do wonders for those who mistakenly see any politician whose name is known to them as a communist or "far-leftist."
Yes, there are communists, anarchists, or what-have-you of any radical political persuasion among us, but the two party system we have does not often put anything but the most middle of the road among them in any sort of position where they may be elected or even run for office under a major party banner. The more radical that do make it tend to be those like David Duke or Ralph Reed whose right wing radicalism has perhaps shifted the apparent center for those who know little of what exists of the whole range of political beliefs in this country.
Back to the matter at hand. I don't want any more of the ugliness of NOVA or Fredericksburg even infecting the county, but I'm not seeing the harm in putting banners in a window to advertise a special. Reasonable does not seem to be in the vocabulary of a lot of our local code enforcement officials.
@Bud: If the County stopped enforcing sign ordinances, you would quickly learn why they are necessary.
@Gasbag: Somebody somewhere must've just won a bet - another Hook thread has devolved into you crying about how The Man has tried to screw you or your family.
Red cars draw more speeding tickets than other cars. But you'd better not cry about harrassment in front of the judge if you get ticketed in your red car. Much better to drive the speed limit - ESPECIALLY if you're in a little red sports car.
Likewise your dad dodging property taxes in the manner that you describe is no different than a business owner getting around a sign ordinance by LEGALLY parking a highly visible vehicle in front of his or her store. Perhaps you'd prefer to see the sign ordinances amended to ban that as well?
He's a rebel cause he never ever does what he should!
I can see the appeal of Franchises; you have an established name to start your business with and a proven menu and business model. But franchise agreements tend to get more complicated, restrictive, and expensive as time goes on.
whatever happened to gasbag's father (as if that has anything to do with this story), let's not kid ourselves about this guy. The article states that it is not just county ordinances that he has trouble following, but also Arby's corporate rules.
So while this guy can pretend to be Braveheart crying "FREEEEEDOMMM!!!!!" right before the axe falls, to everyone else he seems like a whining malcontent.
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You have a bad habit of putting words into people's mouths, Gas-hole. Nobody whining here except you (on Slonaker's behalf).
FYI, advertising on vehicles is allowed, and I'm pretty sure the nTelos van is on their own property. I think Harostar's point was that Slonaker should park his vans on his own lot.
Maybe you should stick to ragging on "Cop Shops."
You ever think that maybe Food Lion allows him to park his vehicles in their lot? Or maybe they just don't care? After all, it's an awful big lot. It's funny, Albemarle County wants all the perks of trying to be like Northern Virginia, but none of the stuff that comes with them.
Scrambling, I'm pretty sure his flagpole and building windows were on his property, yet the county still bullied him into removing them.
Mr/Mrs/Miss Scrambling Ambler, which would you rather see out there, a big old ugly armored truck right at the edge of the traveled roadway, or a sign in Slonaker's window saying "5 Roast Beef for $5.00"?
I don't object to the armored truck being parked there, I object to it being used as nothing more than a real big sign.
Does Albemarle County single out people to harass? They sure do. Out of all the county residents who were doing the same thing my father did, Albemarle County singled out my father around 1979 or 1980 and charged him with tax evasive. He used to buy new cars and trucks every year when he was living. He would sell his cars and trucks the last in week in December, and purchase his new cars and trucks the first week in January. Therefore, he never had to pay personal property taxes on motor vehicles. While I do not recall thejudge's exact words right now, he basically told Albemarle County to never bring a case this silly and unfounded into his courtroom again! The judge obviously dismissed the case against my father. And he made Albemarle County pay all my father's attorney fees and damages.
Speed limits are for safety, right?. Who has ever been harmed by a giant sticker in the window of an Arby's? It's not like the place had burned out cars in the parking lot and appliances strewn in the grass.
It just seems to me that the government should have better things to do than complain about signage in restaurant windows. And if they don't have better things to do, it's a clear example that what we need is less government.
Wuzzy, the county "bullied him" into complying with the relevant ordinances in the same way that I was "bullied" into driving the speed limit on my way to work this morning. Please.
Slonaker is a patriot, perrello is a communist.
I went there and had the "Ben Franklin." It's a pretty tasty sandwich. Turkey's real (and thick), bread's good, not too heavy on the mayo, awesome bacon. Came with waffle fries.
I'd return.
Why is it so easy for someone who refused to comply with local laws that apply to us all, and who willfully violated his contract with the company that supplied him his business, to wrap himself in the flag of patriotism and get free promo puff press pieces in all the local papers? Isn't this a country in which we are governed by the rule-of-law, rather than the cult-of-personality? If I wanted to live in a place where those who thumb their noses at civil law are treated as heroes, I'd move to Iran. This guy is no kind of "good American" -- he's just a scofflaw and a cheat.
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Yes, and freedom of speech protects the rights of commies and liberals in right wing communities, or does it?
Sloanaker isn't a libertarian. he's a businessman who thinks that he should do what he wants, when he wants, as he wants. He's a libertine. Big difference.
He's as much a hypocrite as the Tea Partiers who scream about smaller government while they roll around in their medicare provided wheelchair, pay their bills with their Vet benefits, and collect their social security.
When you run an Arbys franchise you are subject to your contract with Arby...which includes no added menu items.
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ya, keep deleting me moderator. we have a U.S. Attorney taking the fraud case on Tom Slonaker. just getting our ducks in a row. but just keep deleting justice you unpatriotic moderator. time will soon reveal the truth.
I went and had the terd-blossom fritatta, freedom fries and the "W" (all you can eat) Sunday. I am righteously full!
About "W": "We struggle to recover from the thoughtless carnage of his tenure."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2030739,00.html#ixzz15M...
I stopped in for lunch yesterday. There were flags and small signs everywhere! (Small signs out front near the road advertising all his menu selections.) He's definitely making some sort of statement to the selective enforcement officials in Albemarle County. And By God, I say more power to him!
So then, GBSOE, your pop was the reason why they do those taxes pro-rata now!!
Not really. There were thousands of people doing the exact same thing. Out of all these people, I have no idea how Albemarle singled out my father for the "test case".
I think Albemarle had to then start pro-rating taxes so they could come up with some cash to pay my father's attorney bills and damages. :)
The local government does everything in it's power--and beyond--to ensure that this is the dullest and ugliest community possible.
Business-wise: the hostility towards anyone who attempts to run a business at all is unfathomable.
I am certain that Slonaker will not "loose" money. He may lose it, but at least he's doing what he wants to do.
@Marijean: Sorry for the typo near the end. Now fixed!--hawes the editor
@Hawes: If you're fixing errors, would you please correct "helped" in the first paragraph? Also, thanks for fixing "alot"! :-)
Thanks Hawes. You rock.
Just another guy who thinks the rules don't apply to him. Rules are rules.
Hawes, while you are fixing errors, anything you can do about Washington D.C.?
I wonder why he didn't bother to paint over the Arby's label scar. Am I the only one who thinks that was intentional?
That's a little nutty, but I generally like mom & pop type restaurants better than chains anyway.
Those Arbys in Short Pump seem much different and have different items than I've seen in other Arbys, wonder how they get away with it?
cookieJar, I laughed.
Good to see someone fight the rules, change doesn't happen without a change maker.
I hear that mr Slonaker is making "the restaurant formerly known as Arby's" a drive-in voting place. Sounds cool' like "American Graffiti" for angry non readers.
First off, thanks to the Hook for telling us what's going on. I've been wondering for a while what was up with the Arby's.
Secondly, I'm all for libertarian values. But come one. Can't we go have lunch without politics involved? It's on the news 24/7. You can't get away from campaign signs. And we have elections practically every year. Can't I just enjoy my roast beef?
The more people that participate in politics the more likely the politicians will listen to the people instead of their big money contributors. All the money in the world can't get them elected if a majority of people voice their will - at least that is my opinion.
Thanks to the tea party and the right wing, the word "Patriot" has become associated with far-right politics. I think moderates and lefties, even if they enjoy a good political debate, will steer clear from his place.
Selective enforcement? Perhaps. From what little I've read it seems to me what happened was that Sloanaker was warned that if he didn't fix his signs, park his ad vehicles in actual lined and legal parking spaces, get the proper permits, and whatever, he would be cited. He didn't fix his signs, so they came out to cite him... and since they had to do that anyway, they cited him for everything, the big and the small. After all, if the county is going to get into a legal fight, they may as well get it all out of the way at once, right? If other business owners are less argumentative and respond to warnings about highly visible violations in a timely way, the county probably doesn't waste the time and effort hassling them over the little stuff. So is that the same thing as selective enforcement?


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Apache Tomcat 4.0 and later operate with paths that are relative to one of two locations. These two locations are known in the Tomcat batch scripts as CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. In the Java command that actually runs Tomcat, they appear as catalina.home and catalina.base system properties. The "home" location defines where the binary portion of Tomcat lives. This includes the bin, common, and server directories. The "base" location defines where the configuration and working directories for a Tomcat server instance lives. This includes the conf, logs, shared, webapps, and work directories. Tomcat servers created in WTP will have their "home" location set to the Tomcat installation associated with the Tomcat Runtime selected for the server. The "base" location will default to an internally created directory under the .metadata folder found in your workspace.
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The Tomcat server's configuration can be changed using the server editor. This editor is opened by displaying the context menu for the server in the Servers view and selecting Open. Double-clicking on the server in the Servers view also opens this editor. The editor contains two views, Overview and Modules, which display different portions of the Tomcat configuration. You switch between these views by clicking on their respective tabs at the bottom of the editor.
The configuration for a Tomcat server includes a number of WTP specific options and settings, shown in the Server and Automatic Publishing sections of the Overview view. More importantly, it also includes the set of Tomcat configuration files found in the folder specified by the Configuration Path field shown in the General section of this view. This server editor has the ability to make a limited set of modifications to the server.xml in that folder, such as modifying the server port numbers. Modifications to the other files and other modifications to server.xml will need to be made directly to the file.
The Modules view displays the contexts that the Tomcat server is configured to server. These contexts include Dynamic Web Projects that have been added to the server as well as contexts manually added using this view.
As a convenience, the launch configuration Properties dialog for the Tomcat server may be opened from the Overview view of the server editor by clicking on the Open launch configuration link found in the General section.
How can I view or modify the launch configuration properties for a Tomcat server?
The Java start-up environment for a Tomcat server is displayed in the launch configuration Properties dialog for the server. The most straightforward way to open this dialog is to first open the server editor for the Tomcat server. Once the server editor is open, click the Open launch configuration link found in the General section of the Overview view. This approach has the advantage of creating the launch configuration if it is a new server that has not yet been started for the first time. You can also open the launch configuration Properties dialog by executing Run -> Run... (or Debug...) and select the desired run configuration from those under the Apache Tomcat category.
What configuration option determines whether the Tomcat server uses a separate instance or the instance from the Tomcat installation?
The Run modules directly from the workspace (do not modify the Tomcat installation) checkbox of the server editor controls this option. It is found in the General section of the Overview view. If checked, a separate instance is used. If not checked, the instance from the Tomcat installation is used. The default is checked. It is best to change this option immediately after creating the server, or at least while no projects have been added to the server.
If my Tomcat server is using a separate instance, how do I find the location of this separate instance?
The best way to find the instance location, known as CATALINA_BASE in the Tomcat batch scripts, is to first open the launch configuration Properties dialog. Then select the Arguments tab in this dialog and examine the contents of the VM Arguments field. The value for the catalina.base system property specifies the instance location
How do I find the location of the conf, logs, temp, webapps, and work directories for my Tomcat server?
The conf, logs, temp, webapps, and work directories are all relative to the Tomcat server's instance location, known as CATALINA_BASE to the batch files. To find this location, see the previous question.
When I create my first Tomcat server, why is a Servers project created in my workspace?
The Servers project is created, along with a subfolder associated with the Tomcat server, to hold copies of the server.xml, catalina.policy, tomcat-users.xml, and web.xml files for that Tomcat server. This makes is easier to make modifications to those files. It also allows these files to be "working copies", separate from the copies that are found in the conf directory of the instance location. This avoids the possibility of interfering with a running Tomcat server if modifications are made to the files in the Servers project while the server is running.
This Servers project must remain open for Tomcat servers to function properly. Be aware that use of the Close Unrelated Projects command may unintentionally close the Servers project. Reopen the Servers project if this occurs.
How do I determine which folder in the Servers project is associated with a particular Tomcat server?
From the Servers view, open the server editor for the desired Tomcat server. In the General section of the Overview view, the Configuration path field displays the path to the associated folder in the workspace that contains the Tomcat configuration files. The default name for this folder is the name of the server with "-config" appended.
What does Publish do for Tomcat servers in the Servers view?
Publish updates the server instance with any server configuration changes, changes related to projects added or removed from the server, and content changes in projects already added to the server. This includes copying the server configuration files found under the associated subfolder of the Servers project to the server's instance location. In the case of server.xml, "adjustments" may be made to the file by WTP during the copy. For an example of an "adjustment", see this question.
Note the configuration files under the subfolders in the Servers project are not used directly by running servers. The running server uses copies of these files. This implies that any manual changes made to the copy will be overwritten the next time the server is published.
Also note that all files found in the subfolder of the Servers project will be copied. If you have imported additional files there, such as catalina.properties or logging.properties, they will be available to the running server in its conf directory.
Why are <Context> elements added to server.xml when Dynamic Web Projects are added to the Tomcat server?
Though the approach of declaring contexts by adding <Context> elements to server.xml has been deprecated in current Tomcat versions, it is still the only approach that works across all Tomcat versions. In addition, the handling for these <Context> elements is consistent across all Tomcat versions. The support for individual context XML files is not supported for Tomcat 3.2 and varies between the remaining Tomcat versions.
How do I specify the Tomcat context configuration for my Web Application?
The configuration within <Context> elements may be added to the server.xml file associated with the Tomcat server, after the project has been added to the server. Note that if the project is removed from the server, this configuration will be lost. You can save a copy of the configuration in some file in your project if you want to persist this information.
Another approach is use the support found in Tomcat 4.1 and later for specifying context configuration within a META-INF/context.xml file found in the Web application. If a project containing a META-INF/context.xml file is added to one of these Tomcat servers in WTP, the context configuration found in this file will be included in the server.xml when this file copied as part of publishing the server. When adding the configuration from the META-INF/context.xml file, all child elements of the <Context> are copied as well as its attributes, excluding path and docBase.
How do I make the Servlet and JSP API Javadoc in my Tomcat installation accessible within Eclipse?
The tomcat-docs Web application that comes in the standard Tomcat installation includes Javadoc for the servlet and JSP API classes. It is possible to attach this Javadoc to the appropriate JAR(s) in a Tomcat runtime and receive the benefits supported by Eclipse. Other Javadoc and source you acquire for the Tomcat runtime JARs can also be attached in a similar fashion. Caching of this information means that you only have to specify this once per Tomcat runtime in each workspace you use. You do not have to do it for each project.
- If you do not have one already, create a Dynamic Web Project which uses the Tomcat runtime to which you want to attach the Servlet and JSP API Javadoc.
- In the Package Explorer view, expand the Dynamic Web Project and its library folder for the Tomcat runtime.
- Right-click the API JAR (see table that follows) and select Properties.
- In the Properties dialog, select Javadoc Location in the tree on the left.
- With the Javadoc URL option selected, click Browse. Navigate to the appropriate folder (see table that follows) and click OK twice to exit the Properties dialog.
The JAR name and folder varies depending on the version of Tomcat. The following table gives the various choices.
|Tomcat Version
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How do I enable the JULI logging in a Tomcat 5.5 Server instance?
Tomcat 5.5 comes with an enhanced implementation of java.util.logging, called JULI, which is configured by default in a standard Tomcat 5.5 installation. This JULI logging configuration is not picked up automatically when creating a new Tomcat 5.5 server in WTP. Some manual steps are necessary to add this configuration to your WTP Tomcat 5.5 server.
- Open the server editor for the Tomcat server and note the folder specified by the Configuration path field.
- Import the logging.properties file from the conf directory of your Tomcat 5.5 installation into this folder in your workspace.
- In the server editor, click on the Open launch configuration link and in the launch configuration Properties dialog, switch to the Arguments tab.
- In the VM Arguments field, add the following two system properties substituting the catalina.base path where noted:
-Djava.util.logging.config.file="<put catalina.base path here>/conf/logging.properties" -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
The imported logging.properties file can be used to control the JULI logging configuration for the Tomcat server.
Can I add or remove a project from a server, or publish changes for a project already on a server, while that server is running?
If you are adding a project to a Tomcat server, it would be best to stop the server, add the project, then start the server again. The "autoDeploy" feature of Tomcat could automatically serve the Web application when it is published without stopping Tomcat. However, there is a good chance that the Web application will be served before it is completely published, resulting in a context that is incomplete in some fashion. For example, if Tomcat started serving the Web application before the web.xml had been copied, the Web application would be run with just Tomcat's built in web.xml defaults. Thus, it is best to add projects while Tomcat is stopped.
Likewise, when removing a project from a Tomcat server, it would be best to stop the server, remove the project, then start the server again. When using an OS that tends to lock files, such as Windows, stopping the server before removing a project will be necessary to avoid errors stating that certain files, typically JARs, could not be deleted. If this occurs, you will need to manually delete these files to complete the removal. Regardless of the file locking issue, it shouldn't be assumed that Tomcat won't have problems with Web applications being removed in this fashion while it is running.
For changes to projects already added to a Tomcat server, if the changes are only to JSP files or other static content files, there there should be no issues if the server is already running. For other changes, success is not typically guaranteed with the odds varying depending on exactly what changed and the current state of the running Web application.
If you make changes to the context configuration for the Web application, then the Tomcat server will need to be restarted. The context configuration appears in the server.xml for the running server and a restart is the only way to pick up those changes.
For Windows systems, there is an internal feature which may help or hurt with respect to making changes to Utility JAR dependencies of a Dynamic Web Project that is on a running Tomcat server. As mentioned above, JARs in use by a running Tomcat are locked by the Windows operating system and can not be deleted for replacement by a newer version. If the JAR can not be deleted when the publish operation tries to update the JAR, then the publish operation will rewrite the JAR instead. For this rewrite to achieve a useful effect, the Web application will need to be reloaded. If the context for the Web application has reloading enabled, this should occur automatically. If reloading is not enabled, then this rewrite will likely do more harm than good and you should restart Tomcat.
How can I debug with the Java source that Tomcat creates for a JSP?
This is feasible with Tomcat 5.0.x and later. However, you should be aware that if you are serving multiple Web applications, the debugger will not be able to tell in which Web application a break point is occurring. The hope is that the class will be unique across all Web applications and finding the right source file just requires searching all Web applications. In the case of JSP, the servlet class generated for a JSP will be the same in each Web application for JSPs with the same name and location. Thus, if you set a breakpoint in an index.jsp file in one Web application, you effectively set a breakpoint in all index.jsp files at the same location in all other Web applications.
The first part is to add the appropriate Tomcat "work" folder to the launch configuration source paths. Follow these steps to make this addition:
- Open the server editor by right-clicking on the Tomcat server in the Servers view and selecting Open, or double-clicking the server.
- Click the Open launch configuration link and select the Arguments tab in the launch configuration dialog that opens.
- In the VM Arguments field, find the setting for catalina.base system property. Select and copy its value, not including the enclosing quotes.
- Switch to the Source tab in the launch configuration dialog, click the Add... button, and select File System Directory. Then click OK.
- In the dialog that opens, paste the copied catalina.base value into the Directory field. Then click the Browse... button.
- Navigate to the work directory for the web application you are debugging and click OK. It will typically be something like work/Catalina/localhost/<webapp context-root>.
- Click OK two more times to exit the launch configuration dialog.
To get a JSP's Java file open in an editor you will need to to set a breakpoint in the JSP. In WTP, breakpoints can be set in a JSP only where there is Java code. If the JSP does not already contain something suitable, you can add a "<% %>" scriptlet to provide a location where you can set a breakpoint. Once the breakpoint is set, the following steps show how to open the Java file for the JSP.
- Execute Debug As -> Debug On Server for this JSP.
- When the breakpoint is hit, find the thread serving the HTTP request in the Debug view. The top line of the stack under this thread corresponds to the breakpoint in the JSP.
- Right-click on the top line of the stack identified in the prior step and select Show Source -> Java. This will open the Java file for the JSP.
You can step through the Java code in this file as well as set additional breakpoints. Breakpoint markers do not appear in the left hand margin of this editor, but they do appear in the Breakpoints view. Note that this editor does not show updates to the JSP. You will have to close the editor and hit a breakpoint again to see newer versions of the Java file.
Trouble Shooting
Why won't the New Server Runtime dialog recognize my Linux installed version of Tomcat?
To support searching for Tomcat runtimes, the contents of each directory being tested is checked for a set of content that uniquely identifies the version of Tomcat. These sets are based on the standard zip or tar.gz installs from Apache. The packaged install for various versions of Linux might not quite match the expected set of files.
This problem has been known to occur with Tomcat packages that install a version of Tomcat 5.0.x. When identifying Tomcat 5.0.x, a servlet-api.jar is expected to be present in the common/lib directory. The installation instead has a link named [servletapi].jar to provide the equivalent jar. To meet the verification requirement, you can create an empty jar file named servlet-api.jar in this directory to work around this requirement.
When I try to create a server, it says that it "Could not load the Tomcat server configuration." What is the problem?
When a Tomcat server is created, server.xml, catalina.policy, tomcat-users.xml, and web.xml are copied from the Tomcat installation to a folder under the Servers project in your workspace. These are the "working copies" that will be copied to the conf directory of the server instance when the server is run. If one of these files is missing or can't be read, then this error will occur. This error is most likely to occur when using a packaged Tomcat installation on Linux, since the user running Eclipse may not have permission to read one or more of these files.
What does it mean if WTP says my server "failed to start"?
WTP will start the Tomcat server and then try open a connection to the server's HTTP port. If the JVM that is running Tomcat terminates early, or the connection can't be established within a certain timeout, an error dialog appears displaying "Server <server's name> failed to start".
In addition to server configuration problems which prevent the server from staring, there are several known use cases which can result in this behavior. If none of these use cases apply, then you should examine the server logs or console output for clues as to why the server did not start.
The first use case that can cause this behavior is if the Enable Tomcat debug mode is, or has been, checked in the Tomcat server configuration. If so, then open the launch configuration for the Tomcat server and examine the Program Arguments field on the Arguments. Ensure that "-debug" is not present, or precedes the "start" argument. If it follows the "start" argument, it will cause the server not to start. If the Enable Tomcat debug mode is unchecked, delete the "-debug" string from the field and click Apply to save the change. Once checked, unchecking this option does not successfully remove the argument from the launch configuration, so it must be deleted manually. Note that in Tomcat 5 and later, there is virtually no benefit to enabling this option.
Another use case that can cause this behavior is using a packaged Tomcat installation on Linux. In a packaged Tomcat installation, the classpath specification normally found in the MANIFEST.MF of Tomcat's bootstrap.jar file may have been removed so that installed versions of one or more JARs might be picked up by the start-up batch scripts. You will need to modify the launch configuration to add the missing JARs before the server can be started. First, open the launch configuration for the Tomcat server. Then select the Classpath tab and add the JARs you find being added in the start-up batch scripts to the User Entries. Also, when using a packaged Tomcat install on Linux, you must ensure that the user running Eclipse has permission to read the JARs in the installation.
One other use case that can cause this behavior is if you have Launch in debug mode when workspace contains breakpoints enabled. This setting is found on the Launching preference page under the Run/Debug category of the Preferences dialog. If this setting is enabled and Tomcat is started with a Run command rather than a Debug command, the error can appear because the server did not start in the expected "run" mode because the mode was overridden by the preference setting.
If the error occurs, but the server starts anyway, then the problem may be that a Web project added to the server slows the start-up time sufficiently to exceed the timeout. In this case, you can adjust the Server timeout delay found on the Server preferences page of the Preferences dialog to lengthen the timeout.
The default location of shared/lib is relative to the Tomcat server's instance location. This means that the shared/lib location is not the one in your Tomcat installation unless the Run modules directly from the workspace (do not modify the Tomcat installation) option is unchecked. For details on this option, see this question.
If using a separate instance of Tomcat, you can create a shared/lib folder at the instance location and add the JARs there. Alternatively, you could import the catalina.properties file from your Tomcat installation into the folder in the Servers project associated with the Tomcat server. Once imported, you can modify the shared.loader property, which is responsible for configuring the "shared" classloader, to meet your requirements.
If I start my Tomcat server and try to display Tomcat's default page, why do I see a directory listing or 404 error page?
When creating Tomcat servers in WTP, the default is for the Tomcat server to use a separate instance from the Tomcat installation for reasons explained in this question. There is no attempt to serve the standard Web applications found in the installation. Instead, a simple "ROOT" Web application, containing just a minimal web.xml file, is provided as the default context. The URL "http://localhost:8080/" tries to display the welcome file at the base of this ROOT context. Since this ROOT context contains no welcome file, the default behavior for Tomcat is to display a directory listing. This is why you will see a directory listing for this URL with Tomcat 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 servers. Directly listings have been disabled in Tomcat 5.5, so the result is a 404 error page instead. To modify the Tomcat server in WTP to use the same server instance as the installation, see this question.
Why can't I access the standard Web applications in my Tomcat server?
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Necklaces & Pendants Guide
Jewelry serves to both accessorize and personalize any outfit. Your jewelry can make a statement about you and your individual style. Jewelry is commonly given as gifts for a variety of secular and Jewish occasions alike. A jewelry item can be given for a birthday or anniversary.
Judaism is full of celebrations where it is traditional to give gifts. These include a girl's Bat Mitzvah at the age of twelve or a Jewish wedding. Necklaces and pendants make for great jewelry gifts for these occasions.
Jewish jewelry is very common. Jewish themed necklaces and pendants may include the Hebrew words of the Shema, Star of David, Hamsa, and Chai symbols.
Necklaces are usually adorned with a central design, which often has symbolic meaning. In Judaism, these symbols can come from Kabbalah, the Torah, Jewish history, and tradition. Some of the more popular symbols include the Star of David, Hamsa, Chai, and Choshen design.
The Star of David, also known as the Magen David, is a historical symbol that has come to represent the Jewish community in modern times. The symbol originated from the shield of David and can be found in ancient Siddur prayer books and synagogues. Today this hexagram shaped star can be found on the Israeli flag and is a very popular design for necklaces.
The Hamsa symbol is an a hand symbol with the palm facing up and the thumb extended outwards. This symbol is common in Middle Eastern cultures and religions. The meaning of the Hamsa is protection against the evil eye. In modern times, the Hamsa is a Kabbalistic symbol and is displayed on wall hangings, blessings, and necklaces and bracelets.
Chai refers to the two letters that form the Hebrew word meaning 'life'. Numerology, the concept that letters have mathematical associations, is popular in Judaism. By studying the numbers associated with Hebrew letters, many scholars have found what they believe to be hidden meanings of the words. The letters of the word Chai add up to eighteen in numerology. Thus, the number eighteen has gained spiritual significance in Judaism. Gifts of money are often given in multiples of eighteen for this reason.
Choshen jewelry is a type of jeweled design that is common for Jewish jewelry items. The Choshen pattern shows twelve multicolored stones in two lines. This design was first found on the breastplate that was worn by the high priests of the Temple when performing holy duties. Each of the precious stones represented one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Necklaces and pendants can be made of materials such as metal, nickel, and stainless steel. More sophisticated and expensive necklaces can be made of 925 sterling silver and 14 karat yellow gold. The chain of the necklace itself can be made of silver or gold. Some necklaces feature disk on key flash drives for a more tech savvy option. Many necklaces display Hebrew text, such as the words of the Shema prayer "Hear O Israel: the Lord is our G-d, the Lord is one."
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As part of the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme, the Department for Children, Schools and Families is making a significant investment in short breaks for disabled children and their families. This increased investment has started in 21 Pathfinder local authority sites across England, with a national roll-out following one year later.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has commissioned the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University (CeDR) and the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) to evaluate the Aiming High for Disabled Children Short Breaks Pathfinder Programme and to investigate the impact of short breaks on disabled children and their families.
The NDTi are leading on the evaluation of the Pathfinder Programme, using a 'realist evaluation' method, which goes beyond asking "Does this programme work?" to ask: "How does this project work, in this particular situation, with these groups of people and why?". Phase 1 of the evaluation will capture the early progress of Pathfinder sites by reviewing documents, conducting interviews and discussion groups and using information from other parts of the project. For each Pathfinder site, we will produce, share and test CMO maps of the local Contexts (e.g. key environmental factors and population characteristics), Mechanisms (different types of local provision) and Outcomes (different data sources, participants' feedback, case studies etc). Interim findings from Phase 1 will be tested in more depth in Phase 2 using intensive case studies with families and the facilitation of clusters of Pathfinder sites to tease out how contexts and mechanisms contribute to positive outcomes. An additional part of our evaluation is to investigate how the actual provision of short breaks for families with a disabled child in Pathfinder sites compares to the likely population need for short breaks in each area. These parts of the project should be complete by the end of May 2010.
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Heritage Conservancy's Lasting Landscapes® initiative unites open space protection and historic preservation comprehensively at the "landscape level." We identify and map significant landscapes containing both natural and historic resources, and then develop and implement protection techniques to sustain the resources' integrity.
Lasting Landscapes® provides a single preservation strategy that combines complementary natural and historic resources, establishes large and contiguous preserved areas, achieves preservation objectives within an area's cultural heritage and regional context, and involves local communities.
The seven areas below are currently Heritage Conservancy Lasting Landscape® regions.
- Route 113 Heritage Corridor
The Route 113 Corridor spans more than 30 miles and traversing the counties of Bucks and Montgomery in Pennsylvania
- Quakertown Swamp
Quakertown Swamp is a 518-acre wetland which is recognized as significant by the Pennsylvania Natural Diversity Inventory because it is a haven for a variety of wildlife species.
- Pidcock Creek Watershed
The 8000-acre Pidcock Creek Watershed features steep wooded hillsides, rolling agricultural fields punctuated with historic houses and barns, and clear, beautiful streams.
- Musconetcong River Valley
The Musconetcong River is part of a major bird migratory route in North America, an important wildlife corridor, and part of one of early America's most important inter-modal transportation networks.
- Forks of the Neshaminy
The Forks of the Neshaminy is so called because of the narrow, winding stream valleys formed by the juncture of the Neshaminy and Little Neshaminy Creeks.
- Cooks Creek Watershed
The Watershed's forested ridges, deep spring-fed ravines and fertile valley feature prime farmland and the only viable coldwater fishery in Bucks County.
- Bushkill Creek Watershed
The Bushkill Creek Watershed encompasses 80 square miles of Northampton County, PA, stretching from Blue Mountain to the Delaware River in Easton, PA.
- Lasting Landscapes® Initiative


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Author Notes: Oh, how I love open-faced sandwiches. I've been on a bit of a kick lately, as all kind of lovely things come into season: radishes with sea salt and butter, roasted asparagus with cream cheese and cracked pepper, prosciutto and anything. This here tartine takes advantage of the spring garlic I picked up at the market this morning. —Cristina Sciarra
Makes: 4 long toasts
3 heads of spring garlic
sea salt
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 14-ounce can of chickpeas
freshly ground black pepper
4 long slices pain de seigle
goat cheese
4 slices prosciutto
In This Recipe
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Remove the long stalk from the garlic, so you are left with just the heads. In a bowl, toss them with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, as well as a pinch of sea salt. Wrap the garlic in aluminum foil, and roast for about 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, drain and wash the can of chickpeas. Heat the remaining olive oil in a shallow pan over medium-high heat, and add the chickpeas. Toss in a liberal sprinkling of black pepper and sea salt. Using tongs, toss the chickpeas around. Let them cook for about 5 minutes, until they are almost splitting, and quite hot. Remove them to a bowl.
- When the garlic is ready, squeeze the cloves into the chickpea bowl. Use a fork to mash everything together. Give it a taste; add more pepper and sea salt, if necessary.
- Toast your bread. Spread each one with some goat cheese. Pile the smashed chickpeas/garlic on top of that, and then layer with 1 slice of prosciutto. Repeat.
- I like to cut each slice of toast into fingers. They are good for lunch, or as finger food at a party.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dish with Meat as a Flavoring
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Spring Alliums
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SEO is not a new fad. Keyword stuffing, cloaking, link exchanges, link wheels, and spamming have been around for years. SEO has evolved into something much more since then. Why? Because Google has evolved into something much more.
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In the broadest sense of the term, social media marketing can and usually does embrace a number of outlets including: tweeting, blogging, viewer-supplied content sites, email campaigns and cell phone texting.
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Everyone likes free stuff. In fact, people will do a lot for a prize. Though sometimes, a lot has to be done to give away prizes, too. That's what we found over the last few months during our Small Biz Discovery Contest.
In May we began accepting entries to the contest that we hoped would provide increased visibility, positive sentiment, and quality content for our brand and contests can be an excellent form of link building. While the contest format and expectations were an improvement upon contests we had run in the past, we've recognized in hindsight that there is still room for growth.
In recognizing mistakes, we can hone in on ways to do better next time. We're documenting these lessons in order to learn from them. If you've ever considered planning a contest now or in the future, this contest confession may help you avoid our missteps and learn something, too.
In order to better serve subscribers around the world, the Bruce Clay, Inc. SEO Newsletter has partnered with Bruce Clay Australia to feature news and events from the fast-growing Internet marketing industry in Australia. Be sure to look for international news and content, which will be identified with an icon of the Australian flag.
In January 2010, Bruce Clay Australia released its annual SEO report including key 2009 ranking factors and major trends for 2010. Six months later, the search engine landscape has evolved dramatically, confirming these trends and introducing new dimensions to them.
The key factors with increased importance in 2010 are speed of site, mobile search, online brand presence, social media optimisation, personalised search, linking, richer search listings, spidering and new developments like Google's infrastructure update, Caffeine, and the Mayday algorithm update.
Hands down, this month's recognition goes to major hottie, the Old Spice guy, and the brand's steamy social media campaign. It's been a while since a marketing campaign has brought the Internet to a standstill, captivated an audience so intently, gone viral so quickly, and leveraged engagement quite so nimbly.
Over the course of two days, Old Spice, the makers of men's personal care products, elevated an award-winning ad campaign featuring actor Isaiah Mustafa to an engaging new level. The Old Spice marketing team created a series of YouTube videos responding in close-to-real time to questions and comments submitted through various social media channels. Responses to celebrities helped the campaign get early attention, but the campaign really shined through witty and humorous interactions with regular users and fans.
What Old Spice Did
That all sounds great, but what did Old Spice do to deserve this attention? Old Spice created original, remarkable and just plain fun content. And as far as marketing, they did everything right, including media involvement, real-time interaction, the creation of personal connections, and a highly addictive campaign.
What Old Spice Didn't Do
Despite speculation, YouTube has said that a crop of 503 errors on the site was not due to the popularity and traffic rush of the Old Spice campaign. It also remains to be seen if the marketing effort will positively affect sales. Following the launch of the original TV spot that racked up more than 12 million views on YouTube, sales of the brand dropped 7 percent.
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When enough time has gone by to analyze the final effects of the campaign, it's likely that Old Spice will see higher levels of brand recognition, brand loyalty and community engagement, as well as a larger potential customer base and a youthful repositioning of the brand as hip and cool. Notably, the parent company of Old Spice had to relinquish control of the campaign in order to allow it to live up to its potential. There's no doubt that this campaign will be a catalyst for a wave of engaging social media campaigns for brands of all sizes. Old Spice has set a new bar for the marketing world, and we may all be better for it.
Breaking up is hard to do. AOL sold social networking site Bebo for a paltry $10 million. AOL acquired the company in 2008 for $850 million.
Ask.com EVP of serach technology and an original co-founder of Teoma, Apostolos Gerasoulis, has resigned. Teoma was acquired by Ask in October 2001.
In acquisitions, The Huffington Post has acquired two person technology startup Adaptive Semantics.
Marketwire Inc. has acquired Sysomos an advanced social media monitoring and analytics platform.
The companies behind the new BlueGlassLA conference have combined to create a full service online agency. BlueGlass Inc consists of a merger between 10e20, Search and Social, Infinitenine and Brent Csutoras Inc.
Eightfold Logic launched Linker, a social marketplace for link building. The company likens the service to a Match.com for the link-building set. The aim is to enable search marketers to connect with businesses.
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PPC marketers in New York City have a couple more days to get in on the officially supported AdWords Seminars. This is the last stop on the East Coast this year.
Promoting thought leadership on topics related to Internet economy, the
3rd Annual Internet Summit occurs November 17 and 18 in Raleigh, NC.
Top experts in social media, search marketing and business gather for
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August 16-20 sees the return of search marketing event SES to San Francisco. Use code: 20BRU when you sign up to get a discount on your tickets. Check out the optional one-day training seminars in SEO, SEM and site architecture, as well as the various other conferences and workshops taking place as part of the first-ever marketing festival, Connected Marketing Week.
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Congrats to Google Voice for officially launching to the public on June 22. Google reports some of Voice's features were based on suggestions of more than a million users.
Kudos to Google for its GoogleServe program that allows employees to take a day off to give back through community service. More than 6,000 employees in 27 countries participated in June.
Bing rolls out of beta with improvements to its Web crawler, now called Bingbot. Bing says it will still honor robots.txt directives written for msnbot, so no change is required to pre-existing files.
Ask.com is continuing its mission to be the go-to destination in the question and answer space with a new Q&A engine to be released at the end of the month.
Bing has partnered with DonorsChoose.org, pledging $3 to the charity program for every person that chooses Bing as their default search engine.
Expanding on its popular Google Fiber experimental ultra-high speed broadband network, the search engine has launched a site to help Internet users raise awareness and garner support for changes to federal and local policies nationwide.
Google's has awarded 12 university projects research grants as part of its ongoing support of the digital humanities. Along with offering unrestricted grants for a year, Google will provide access to tools and technologies that will aid the work of digital humanities research.
Search Engine Land asks if Quora will challenge Google as the latest Web search platform launched in beta late last month. Search Engine Land categorizes Quora as an "Aardvark meets LinkedIn Q&A meets Twitter," and reports it can be categorized as an "answer" or "help" engine, facilitating questions and answers between people online.
The matter of Viacom versus YouTube was settled when a court ruled in favor of Google before the case went to trial for Viacom, Inc.'s claim that Google infringed on copyrights on its YouTube property by featuring certain Viacom content.
A recent poll by Weber Shandwick in partnership with Powell Tate and KRC Research showed 39 percent of Americans are tuning out of social media due to uncivilized dialogue online.
Despite the data of the previous news blurb, reports show social media use is up 230 percent since 2007. The report shows 43 percent of social media users visit the sites more than once per day.
How is Google making the Web faster, yet again? Google's senior VP of operation, Urs Holzle, spoke at O'Reilly Velocity 2010 conference and reinforced speed is at the forefront of Google's agenda. Hozle said in partnership with site owners improving their website speeds, Google is using its own infrastructure to create a faster Internet for all users.
The FTC closes its investigation of Twitter and it security practices after the Twitter agreed to implement the government institute's suggestions. The FTC began an examination of Twitter after several accounts were hacked in two separate instances.
Social giant Facebook is trying its hand at search. Users have found they can query a keyword and find third-party websites on a Facebook-hosted SERP, of sorts.
Site owners can now condense the amount of XML Sitemaps they need to create because Google's XML Sitemaps now has functionality to support multiple types of content (video, images, etc.) in one.
Take a sneak peek at the new Digg version 4.0 via BlueGlass' Brent Csutoras.
Bay-area headquartered Facebook and Google are at the center of this Oakland Tribune
post that reports on Google's partial block by the Chinese government and Facebook's new open-book policy on telling what parts of a person's profile are accessed for applications.
Google relaunches YouTube Mobile and introduces YouTube Leanback to give users a more personalized experience and enhanced mobile downloading speeds.
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DailyDirt: Beating The System...
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- Adverse Possession is an uncommonly-used section of the legal code -- that's allowed a Texas man to claim ownership of a foreclosed house for just a $16 filing fee. This guy has called "Finder's Keepers!" and needs to squat for 3 years -- unless the HOA figures out a way to evict him. [url]
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"With Microsoft, unfortunately it's not 100 per cent free-to-play because it requires the Gold subscription to Xbox Live membership," explains Kislyi. "But that's a Microsoft requirement which is valid for us and for Activision and for EA and all other partners. They cannot drop it for us because they would have to drop it for everyone and it would be a total mess for them.
"This we have to tolerate, which I am not happy about. I would rather add another 30-40 million non-golden members and they will monetise occasionally," he says.
Playstation plus is not required for Free-to-play. Just sayin.
nor youtube lol
and dont forget free cross game chat
who cares about a crappy tank multiplayer game, there are ton of better games to play
thats one thing about Xbox one that pisses me off, the pay-walls, it sucks
but i already have Live anyway so it doesnt really matter but i really like how sony is going about all these F2P games and i will definalty pick up a Ps4 in a year or two.
i will just Pre-order a Xbox one first


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Want to eat more organic food? A food forest is a great way to do that.
Permaculture design identifies seven layers in a food forest, from the tallest trees in the canopy continuing down below the soil layer.
There are many varieties of plants that are routinely available in Ontario garden centers, including a few examples below.
The Tilesius' wormwood requires between 10 and 32 inches of rain per annum. It is Native to ON.
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It's that time of year again! ToorCon 15 is coming so get your code finished and submit a talk this time around. We're letting you decide if you want to be a part of our 50-minute talks on Saturday, 20-minute talks on Sunday, and 75-minute talks for our Deep Knowledge Seminars on Friday depending on how much time you need to present your new ideas and techniques. We evaluate our submissions in the order that they're received so submit your talk before time runs out!
Please no vendor pitches or talks on old subjects. We try to keep ToorCon highly technical so please only submit talks on original research that isn't more than 12 months old. Talks that are submitted for a 50-minute or 75-minute slot may be asked to be reduced to 20-minutes if space on the lineup is limited. You must notify ToorCon if you are in any way unable to make it to your talk after being accepted.
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