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Louis Garneau Sports Inc. acquires Chlorophylle h. tech.
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Louis Garneau and Gilles Couët, founders-presidents of their respective companies, told their personnel today that Louis Garneau Sports Inc. had acquired Chlorophylle h. tech.
Louis Garneau stressed that "both brands will continue to exist and expand their distinct but complementary presence in world markets." The companies are well-matched, as they focus on different market segments and different continents.
Louis Garneau Sports Inc. specializes in designing, manufacturing and distributing up-market cycling and ski clothing and accessories, and swimwear. Chlorophylle h. tech. designs top-quality technical clothing for outdoor activities such as climbing, mountaineering, boating and kayaking.
The acquisition may be seen as the companies' innovative response to market globalization and stiffer competition, and will enable both prestigious outdoor and sports sector organizations to continue to operate out of Quebec. "We're small, but we're leaders when it comes to innovation and quality. That's why we are going to continue to grow," said Gilles Couët.
Gilles Couët and his team will remain at the helm of Chlorophylle h. tech. Indeed, Louis Garneau made this a prerequisite for the transaction: "We want to take Chlorophylle even farther, and we're going to achieve this with the people at Chlorophylle by offering them our expertise and solid network of over 4,000 North American clients."
Chlorophylle has carved out a worldwide reputation for itself in the upscale outdoor clothing industry. It employs over 30 people in Quebec and is present in Asia, Europe and elsewhere in North America.
The Louis Garneau group operates six factories, including its head office facility. It employs over 425 people and boasts a constantly expanding sales figure. Thanks to its original products and inspired marketing, Louis Garneau Sports Inc. has become a world leader in top-of-the-line cycling products
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It's already pretty straightforward to set up a Square account, but the company wants to streamline the process of registering with its app even further.
Today, the company is launching "Business in a Box" — a package that includes a cash drawer, an iPad stand, card readers and an optional printer for printing receipts. It costs $299 for the readers and cash drawer, and $599 if you include the printer.
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There is no stock way to do it in SMF, mostly because the sort of thing you're trying to do is pretty discouraged as users can reorder the board listing at their leisure.However if you wanted to guarantee the order worked the way you wanted it, you could edit the smf_topics table and change the is_sticky values. As long as they're all > 0 it should function the same and order them highest number to lowest, so if you have 5 topics, the first one should be 5, the second 4 until you get to the fifth topic being 1.It might get hairy if ever unstickied and stickied again but can't prevent that sort of shenanigan without code change.
fyi ... someone made the Order Stickied Topics mod - it's very outdated and probably doesn't work ... just saying
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The one br360 posted is the one I've been using for a long time.It does have one quirk in that when you want to unsticky something, you have to do it twice.
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The award-winning Spanish author Ana Maria Matute, best known for her books set during the Spanish Civil War, died Wednesday. She was 88.
Matute died in the northeastern city of Barcelona where she was born and lived, the Spanish Royal Academy for Language said.
The cause of death was not disclosed.
Matute won many Spanish literary awards, including the 2010 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary honour. She also won Spain's National Literature Award for Children's and Young People's Literature in 1984 and Spain's National Literature Award in 2007.
Among her most popular novels are "Los Abel" (The Abels), "Los Soldados Lloran de Noche" (Soldiers Cry By Night), and "La Trampa" (The Trap).
Matute was ranked as one of the country's best post-Civil War writers. Her work often centres on that conflict, which took place from 1936-39.
Admired for her lyrical style, Matute's novels commonly consider the lives of children and adolescents and focus on issues of betrayal and isolation.
Matute has also been praised for her children's books and young adult novels, including "Los Ninos Tontos" (The Stupid Children), and "El Verdadero Final de La Bella Durmiente" (The True Story of Sleeping Beauty).
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A Pre-Sale-Sale: PEGs do not typically buy 100% of your business. Instead, they buy a percentage of your business. They look at the money they put into your business as a short-term investment with the objective to sell 100% of your business to a third party within the next few years. They want a significant ROI.
A Form of a Financial Buyer: PEGs (Private Equity Groups) are financial buyers that tend to make direct investments in middle market companies and tend to pay four (4) to seven (7) times EBITDA for companies. They normally make control investments, however, many groups will take a minority position in the most promising deals. Private equity groups provide strategic capital for a number of activities, including recapitalizations, leverage buildups, management buyouts, and management buy-ins. PEGs are opportunistic investors and look at many deals before making an investment. Frequently, PEGs will create investment opportunities by sponsoring an executive team to target an industry in which the team has relevant experience and a strong track record. Many PEGs are comfortable investing in family businesses (Middle Market M&A, p. 13).
Possible Benefits of a PEG: Shareholders and partners may find a full or partial exit attractive for many reasons, including:
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Fort Worth Diocese Interrogated Sex Abuse Victim and His Mother in a Starbucks: Lawsuit
Fort Worth Diocese Interrogated Sex Abuse Victim and His Mother in a Starbucks: Lawsuit
From the Link: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/fort-worth-diocese-interrogated-sex-abuse-victim-and-his-mother-in-a-starbucks-lawsuit-7139543
By 2013, the stories of child molestation in the Catholic church, along with the archdiocese's attempts to sweep the allegations under the rug, were old news. In that year alone, sex abuse cases cost the Catholic church $108,954,109, according to a report by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bishops acknowledged the church's failings and laid out a series of recommendations to prevent more abuse and abuse cover-ups. "We pledge that we will work toward healing and reconciliation for those sexually abused by clerics," they wrote.
But that same year, the Fort Worth Diocese was working to cover up a new claim of sexual abuse, a lawsuit filed this week claims. The man identified in court documents only as John Doe 117 says he was the victim of sadistic "punishment" by Father John H. Sutton when he was a student at Wichita Falls' Notre Dame Middle-High School in the early 1990s.
Sutton, who died in 2004, was employed by the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth as the school's Chaplain, confessor and a history teacher. During a 7th grade history class, Sutton accused Doe of copying an assignment from an encyclopedia, Doe claims. For "penance," Sutton ordered the boy to pray in the chapel during his lunch hour. Soon, Sutton would look for Doe in the lunchroom multiple times each week, the suit claims, and escort him to the chapel.
In the chapel, Sutton stood over Doe while he knelt in payer, and then began groping him, Doe says. The assaults escalated, the suit says, and eventually Sutton was raping Doe with sex toys that he kept in a black bag:
Doe also recalls hearing the sound of a camera clicking during some incidents of abuse. Sutton even stuffed a towel in Doe's mouth to prevent his uncontrollable agonizing screams from being heard. "Shut up," Sutton threatened the child, "or it will be worse."
Doe claims Sutton also threatened him that "I have the power to ruin your life." Doe was later accused of selling LSD at school — a charge he says was brought on in retaliation for hinting to another faculty member that Sutton had been abusing him. He says the abuse lasted two years.
In 2013, the victim was a grown man living in Washington when, he says, he had a nervous breakdown. Suffering flashbacks from his abuse, he decided to talk to the Catholic Diocese. Fort Worth's Catholic Diocese acknowledges this much in a statement released to the media, the only comment they agreed to make about the case:
The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth was contacted by a former student of Notre Dame Catholic School in Wichita Falls. The former student made allegations of sexual abuse by a deceased priest, Father John H. Sutton. The Diocese offered and provided professional personal counseling and pastoral support to the former student.
Doe spoke to Fort Worth's victim assistance coordinator over the course of a year and began going to therapy. Finally, by September 2014, Fort Worth Diocese Bishop Michael Olson agreed to fly to Spokane, Washington to meet with the alleged victim. Olson requested they meet in a Starbucks, the suit claims, and asked if it was okay if he brought along a volunteer. Doe agreed to the conditions.
It wasn't until recently that Doe discovered the volunteer was also a Fort Worth police officer, the suit says. During the meeting, Olson agreed to be recorded. "At a busy local Starbucks, after giving in that very public place an emotionally grueling recorded account of the sexual assaults and abuses by Father Sutton," the suit says, "Doe asked Bishop Olson to go to Mass with him and pray with him …" But Olson refused to pray with the victim afterward, the suit says, making the excuse that he was too busy.
Olson also asked to meet with Doe's mother, separately, again in a Starbucks. While there, they also asked her to recount her son's allegations of sex abuse. "They did not tell her that she was being recorded secretly, a criminal violation of Washington State law," the suit claims. According to the lawsuit, the likely purpose of the recordings was to get a statement from the victim without an attorney present and to lull him into thinking the church was investigating his allegations while the statute of limitations ran out.
John Doe is asking for $1 million. The Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth's statement to the media doesn't address the allegations that the victim and his mother were recorded in a Starbucks. The spokeswoman says church officials did all they could to find more victims of Sutton. In early 2014, she says, Olson and other Diocesan officials visited "all parishes in the Wichita Falls area which had students at Notre Dame School during the tenure of Father Sutton. At the end of each of the Masses, the Diocese announced the allegations and formally asked for victims to contact the Diocese and civil authorities. "


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Shooting at deputy DA's home not tied to others
Investigators say there are no ties between recent shootings involving public officials and a Colorado shooting that killed a man outside the home of a sheriff's deputy and a prosecutor.
Grand County coroner's officials say Joshua Lee Stevens of Coral, Mich., died of multiple gunshot wounds.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says it appears that late Monday, Stevens pounded on the door at the home of Deputy District Attorney Heather Stein and sheriff's Lt. John Stein, who live in a former hotel building in Hot Sulphur Springs. Shots were fired after Stevens tried to force his way in. No other specifics on the shooting have been released.
Investigators said Thursday the Steins didn't know Stevens, who had been in town for about a week looking for work. Authorities are trying to determine whether alcohol or drugs affected Stevens' behavior.
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Studying in Europe: Low fees, more choice
With no points race, the chance to mix modules, and courses taught through English, many are seeing past the CAO
Dubliner Patrick Orr, now studying at University College Utrecht
Increasing numbers of Irish students and their parents are looking beyond Ireland for higher-level education: not just the traditional hop across the pond, and not just in search of hard-to-access programmes such as medicine and veterinary.
Patrick Orr has just started a three-year degree programme in liberal arts and science in Utrecht. As he approached his Leaving Cert in Sandford Park School in Ranelagh, Dublin 6, he became increasingly frustrated with the offerings available through the CAO.
"I come from a family of doctors and I'm interested in medicine, but I didn't want to tie myself to a career too early because I also have a keen interest in the arts," he says. "I was looking for a course that was more open and that combined science and humanities and an element of choice. I just couldn't find it in the Irish system."
Orr's aunt lectures in linguistics in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, and she drew his attention to a programme in her college that offered all the subjects he was looking for and the chance to specialise as he went along. The course is taught through English, along with hundreds of degree and masters-level courses right across Europe.
"I have so many interests and don't want to pigeonhole myself into a profession at 18 years of age," says Orr, who also has a keen interest in music and has worked as a band technician as well as performing. "This year I'm studying philosophy, literature and physics. I'm also taking a module in research and academic skills. Over the course of this year I'll take modules in anthropology, mathematics and sociology. There are loads of options and I don't have to specialise until further into the degree. It's very exciting to consider all the possible qualifications I could come out with."
Travelling to the Netherlands wasn't a major upheaval for Patrick; he's a keen traveller and has spent many summers with relatives in Europe. "I really liked the idea of studying in the Netherlands. It's an interesting country and the system is well-developed for this kind of teaching. This university seemed the best one, although I applied to others as well. I was offered a place on my chosen course in Utrecht even before I sat the Leaving Cert."
Orr's place in University College Utrecht was based on an interview which he did via Skype, a "letter of motivation", a letter from a sponsor and an aptitude test. His results in the Leaving Cert were considered, but only as a matriculation standard; he needed to get a certain amount of passes and honours rather than a points tally.
Degrees in Europe
This is one of the reasons so many Irish students – more than 600 this year – are considering degree courses in Europe, says Guy Flouch, the head of of Eunicas, a UK-based application support service that guides students through the process of applying to universities in Europe.
"The entry requirements for European universities are much more reasonable than here. In the Netherlands, for example, universities are forbidden by law to select students based on grades. Third-level education is regarded as a right.
"However, once students start a course they have to work a lot harder to stay on it. Skipping lectures is a common enough thing in Ireland; it wouldn't be tolerated in many of these European universities. Students have to apply themselves from day one."
Orr says his work schedule is quite tough and he's had to hit the ground running, from an academic point of view. "Everyone around me is very motivated. About half of the students here have travelled from other countries to study and they're focused on getting a good degree. It's good for me because I was very laid back in school and being in a culture of hard work is keeping me on task. I'm only a couple of months in and I already spend a lot of time in the library. The social life is very good here as well, so I have to balance it all out."
Orr didn't know anyone coming to Utrecht but he has since met Irish students from two other Dublin schools, Belvedere College and St Andrew's. "I have friends from 20 different countries already, people I sit in the dining hall with, cook with and go out with. It's amazing. Everyone speaks English, or wants to learn it, so it's the ideal environment for an Irish person."
Orr's parents and younger sister found it hard to let him go, he says, and they all made the journey on the ferry with him. However, he was immediately assigned accommodation and found it very easy to fit in. "I actually enjoyed walking into a classroom of strangers from all over the globe. At least I didn't have to contend with a bunch of lads talking about Gaelic."
By the third semester of this year Orr will be expected to have put some shape on his degree, or at least to choose his major subject. He plans to take all the science modules in the meantime, and a number of humanities and social science subjects. He's getting a sense of what he wants already, he says.
"I'm very interested in having a minor in philosophy and a major in physics. With the hard sciences, especially in the realm of quantum physics, there are so many different interpretations of what is going on and I think a training in philosophy is useful. It gives you an analytical mindset that many employers value as well."
Emily O'Reilly's son Daniel has recently started a course in the Hague University of Applied Sciences. He didn't go there because his mother has just been appointed European Ombudsman, but because he didn't get what he wanted through the CAO.
"I was listening to the radio in August and I heard a piece about Eunicas. I'd never heard of it before and I'd never considered study in Europe as an option," says O'Reilly. "We looked into it and two weeks later Daniel was on a flight to the Hague to start a degree course in European studies."
Two months in, O'Reilly says the move has been the making of him. "I realise it wouldn't work for every student. Daniel was able to take up a course he wouldn't have had the points for in Ireland, but so far he is managing it very well. It mightn't be advisable to take up medicine on the strength of a couple of Cs, for example, and some students wouldn't settle so easily outside Ireland. But for us it has worked out really well, and financially it's a better option than studying in Ireland. Daniel's fees are lower than the Irish student registration charge and we probably would have been paying for accommodation anyway."
Flouch lives in Ireland, where he has worked for many years in careers counselling. He says growing numbers of Irish students are now seeking arts, humanities and social-science programmes in Europe. It used to be health-science courses that attracted Irish students overseas, when they couldn't get a place on high points medicine, veterinary, dental and physiotherapy courses here. This year he has seen a diversification into other disciplines, and students coming from all over Ireland, not just from a cluster of private schools in Dublin.
"Liberal arts is a new trend but Irish students are looking to Europe for courses in international law, gaming, business, fashion design and a whole host of other areas. It's really taken off in the last year in particular. There are more than 800 degree programmes taught through English across Europe now. When you consider that there are several universities the Netherlands that rank higher than the best-ranked Irish university, and students don't need huge CAO points to get in, you can see the attraction."
Interest-free loan
Costs vary from country to country but there are some very attractive options for students who do their homework. In the Netherlands, the cost of a year's study is less than €2,000 and Irish students can access an interest-free loan from the Dutch government. There are also grants available for students who take up part-time jobs. In many EU countries there are no fees at all and there are various incentives for students trying to make the numbers work.
"It's a great adventure for any student with an interest in travel and since so many of them will need to have a global perspective on the jobs market anyway, it makes sense to start early and build an international network," says Flouch. "Irish students have the highest mobility rate in Europe, after Luxembourg, and with so many Irish families moving abroad to work now, we are constantly getting inquiries about accessing universities outside Ireland. It used to be all in the health sciences, but it's opening up now as people wake up to the fantastic opportunities that are available."
Students can find out more about studying abroad at an exhibition in the O'Reilly Hall, UCD on March 29th, 2014. See thestudentworld.com; eunicas.ie


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Earlier today, comics powerhouse DC unveiled a new logo. Well, new logos, as the idea behind the company's new "peeling" motif is that it can be customised for every piece of entertainment it appears on. While that'll mostly be comics, DC did go to the trouble of showing how the property's video games will look.
Above is the new logo as it would have appeared on material for last year's Batman: Arkham City, a Joker colour scheme covering up a piece of the game's wonderfully white-washed promotion art.
As for the idea overall...what do you guys think? I didn't like it when it was first teased earlier in the week, but seeing how it'll appear on comics and when "themed" makes it look pretty slick.


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HARRISBURG (AP) - Gov. Tom Corbett's administration says the federal government isn't enforcing a Jan. 1 deadline to shift tens of thousands children from a health insurance program for children to Medicaid.
Corbett's office said Monday the federal government has agreed to consider an alternate plan other than a transition in three weeks. Spokeswoman Christine Cronkright says the administration will give details later this week about its notification to families of kids covered by the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department says the switch is required by the 2010 federal health care law. However, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius offered in September to cooperate in a phased-in transition.
Private insurance companies play a larger role in shaping policies under CHIP, although Medicaid provides broader health care coverage.


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:: Two Sirs, with Love: Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Harrison Birtwistle among Many Visitors to Oberlin
:: Legendary Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne In Residence as Distinguished Professor of Voice
:: Oberlin on the Road
:: David H. Stull Appointed Dean of the Conservatory
:: Bridget-Michaele Reischl is New Conductor
:: New Faculty Appointments at the Conservatory
:: Andrea Kalyn Appointed Associate Dean
:: Oberlin String Quartet Redux
:: International Piano Competition Winners
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Two Sirs, with Love: Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Harrison Birtwistle among Many Visitors to Oberlin
Two knights of the British Empire crossed the pond to visit Oberlin this past year.
Sir Simon Rattle, famed music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in Finney Chapel last December, with soprano Alyson Cambridge '02 the featured soloist.
"Sir Simon Rattle is one of the great conductors of our time, and an inspiration to all of us as musicians," says Dean of the Conservatory David H. Stull. "This was an extraordinary opportunity for our students and surely a highlight of their Oberlin experience."
"Virtually everything about this performance was stamped by magnificence," wrote Plain Dealer music critic Donald Rosenberg. "Under Rattle, the Oberlin musicians played with superb cohesiveness and refinement."
Sir Simon had this to say about his Oberlin experience: "I was immensely impressed with my time at Oberlin. Not only were the students excellently prepared, they also emanated a joy in discovery and a corporate intelligence that was very moving. In this small community, there is obviously something special going on."
In May, the composition department hosted Sir Harrison Birtwistle in a weeklong residency that included lectures, master classes, and three concerts of the acclaimed composer's work performed by the Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Oberlin Wind Ensemble (conducted by Timothy Weiss) and the Oberlin Percussion Group (conducted by Michael Rosen). Featured soloists included soprano Tony Arnold '90 and Conservatory faculty members Marlene Ralis Rosen, Richard Hawkins, and Michael Rosen.
Sir Harrison is "literally one of a handful of composers who will be viewed as completely essential to the second half of the 20th century," says Lewis Nielson, director of the Conservatory's Division of Contemporary Music and chair of the composition department. "He is absolutely vital to the continuity of contemporary music in the present."
During the residency, President Nancy S. Dye conferred upon Sir Harrison an honorary doctorate of music arts.
Other visitors to Oberlin this year included jazz flute legend Paul Horn '52, who was on campus for a series of master classes and coachings in April 2004; and Dr. Carolynn Lindeman '62, professor of music at San Francisco State University and a board member of the International Society for Music Education, who presented music education workshops in September. The music education division named Lindeman a Distinguished Music Educator. Violinist Jennifer Koh '97, pianist Kotaro Fukuma, cellist Steven Isserlis '80, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)—whose members are all Oberlin alumni—the Pacifica Quartet, organist Olivier Latry, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore, and conductor Oliver Knussen, who led the Cleveland Orchestra, featuring violinist William Preucil, were all on campus under the auspices of the Artist Recital Series. Percussionist Steven Schick was in residence in November; visiting harpsichordists throughout the season included Christopher Sternbridge, Robert Conant, and Skip Sempé '80. Conductor and composer Alice Parker visited in conjunction with a hymn and folk-song festival in October; Madame Marie-Louise Langlais, professor of organ at the Paris Conservatory, conducted a master class; pianist Russell Sherman's March residency included master classes and a concert; and composer Daniel Pinkham arrived in December for a mini-festival of his work that included the American premiere of Organ Concerto No. 2. Avant-garde and multi-faceted new music pioneer Meredith Monk, in a residency sponsored in part by the art department, engaged in a workshop with composition, TIMARA, percussion, and contemporary music students. Jazz pianist Eric Lewis was invited to Oberlin in February by the Black Musicians' Guild to perform a concert honoring Emerita Professor of Piano Frances Walker Slocum '45. Also in February, the Conservatory hosted the first-ever Classical Guitar Studio Alumni Festival, featuring Brian Dowdy '02, Joshua Millard '99, Dan Lippel '98, Rami Vamos '97, Matthew Hinsley '96, and Adam Tully '97.
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Legendary Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne in Residence as Distinguished Professor of Voice
The legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, whose five-decade career in opera, concert, and recital has been celebrated throughout the world, will be in residence as Distinguished Professor of Voice from October 14 through 17, 2005.
Regarded as one of the greatest operatic mezzo-sopranos in history for the power and artistry of her unique and dazzling coloratura as well as for her revival of many forgotten Rossini, Handel, Vivaldi, and Bellini operas, Horne will present four master classes in Oberlin, two of which will be open to the public. She will also teach private lessons to Oberlin voice majors.
"Marilyn Horne is an icon," says Dean of the Conservatory David H. Stull. "Her stature as a singer, secured by an astonishing performance career, is preserved not only by her discography but also by the legacy she has created as a teacher and mentor. We look forward to welcoming her to Oberlin."
Horne created the Marilyn Horne Foundation in 1994 to support young singers and the art of the song. She
is vocal program director at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
Oberlin on the Road
During the 2004-05 season, Conservatory students and faculty either headlined or participated in numerous performances throughout the country.
Singers from the Conservatory joined the Cleveland Orchestra, under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst, and an international cast of singers in concert performances of Richard Strauss's Elektra at Severance Hall last May. The Oberlin cast members were sopranos Jean Lowe '04 and Marie Masters '05, baritone Todd Boyce '05, and mezzo-sopranos Karen Jesse '04, Rebecca Ringle '02, and Kathryn Leemhuis '05. Boyce, Leemhuis, and Masters made their Cleveland Orchestra debuts with the performances. The one-act opera, sung in German, received laudatory reviews in the New York Times, the Plain Dealer, and the Akron Beacon Journal.
This May, the Cleveland Orchestra, in an all-Stravinsky program under the baton of Pierre Boulez, again welcomed Marie Masters, along with mezzo-soprano Robin Hok '06, tenors Thorsteinn Arbjornsson '06 and Michael Sansoni '07, and bass Dashon Burton '05. Masters was the soloist in Four Peasant Songs; the others sang in Le Rossignol.
Again in Severance Hall, the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra performed in April under the baton of James Gaffigan, assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, in a concert dedicated to distinguished voice professor Helen Hodam, who taught at Oberlin from 1963 until 1984. The program featured works by Debussy, Stravinsky, and Mussorgsky. The concert was produced with the generous support
of the Kulas Foundation. Music critic Robert Finn, writing in the Plain Dealer, noted the ensemble's "solid and technically assured" playing as well as its "brilliant sound." This was the second year in a row that one of Oberlin's large ensembles graced the Severance stage; April 18, 2006 will mark the third occasion.
The Oberlin Baroque Orchestra, led by Jeannette Sorrell '92, founder and conductor of Apollo's Fire, performed at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights as well as in Finney Chapel in February. The Plain Dealer reviewed the Finney performance, which was "marked by strong, emotional music-making ... the performances by [the Conservatory students] would have made the baroque composers proud."
Also in Cleveland, in December, the Oberlin Jazz Septet (OJS) headlined at the Bop Stop before taking to the road for a winter-term tour that included stops in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Denver and ended in Aspen, Colorado, for the winter concert series and outreach program at Jazz Aspen Snowmass.
Members of the OJS are trombonist Ryan Snow '05, a student of Associate Professor of Jazz Trombone Robin Eubanks; guitarist Max Hellermann '05, a student of Associate Professor of Jazz Guitar Robert Ferrazza; percussionist Kassa Overall '06, a student of Assistant Professor of Jazz Percussion Billy Hart and Professor of Percussion Michael Rosen; pianist Phillip Jones II '06, a student of visiting teacher of jazz piano Dan Wall; tenor saxophonist Matt Nelson '06, a student of Visiting Professor of Jazz Saxophone Gary Bartz; bassist Ben Purcell '06, a student of Professor of Jazz Studies and Double Bass Peter Dominguez; and, on trumpet, Theo Croker '07, a student of Visiting Professor of Jazz Trumpet Marcus Belgrave.
The Oberlin Jazz Ensemble also hit the road, performing at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival in February. They returned with a certificate of merit honoring what the organizers called their "excellent performance."
New York, New York
The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME), under the direction of Associate Professor of Conducting and Gardner Professor of Music Timothy Weiss, made two sojourns to Manhattan in less than a year.
At Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in March 2004, the ensemble, under the auspices of the International Artists Alliance, presented a program showcasing the music of Professor of Composition Lewis Nielson. Music critic Anthony Aibel, writing in the New York Concert Review, declared Nielson "a master composer, an American original" who "deserves to be better known."
Under Weiss's direction, the CME presented, according to Aibel, "unbelievably polished, superb performances—impeccable performances."
When the ensemble returned to the Big Apple in January, with Weiss again at the helm but this time at Merkin Hall, Aibel was ready to give them another assessment. He was not disappointed.
This time the varied program included the world premiere of Nielson's Anabasis, whose "subtle evolutions of canonic treatment and development are comparable to a recapitulation in a Beethoven symphony," wrote Aibel.
"One hopes [the CME] will continue performing annually in New York, a city that deserves great performances such as these," Aibel wrote in the New York Concert Review. "Other contemporary ensembles present fascinating programs in town, but rarely do they perform them with such polish and conviction."
The following month the CME had another off-site commitment to fulfill: under the baton of Weiss they performed chamber music by Oliver Knussen
at Severance Hall as a special lead-in to the Cleveland Orchestra's concerts featuring the composer as conductor.
The Conservatory Project
The Jasper Quartet, pianists Yury Shadrin '05, Yingying Su '07, and Scott Meek '05, violinist Yuncong Zhang '07, baritone Todd Boyce '05, and oboist Emily Brebach '05 represented the Conservatory in the prestigious Conservatory Project Series at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in February.
The series, a program for developing and presenting young talent from the nation's leading music conservatories, is part of the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage Initiative. National Public Radio recorded the performances, which were broadcast via the Kennedy Center's web site.
"By inviting Oberlin to participate," says Associate Dean Andrea Kalyn, "our nation's performing arts leaders have affirmed that we offer one of the country's finest music programs."
Music critic Daniel Ginsberg, writing in the Washington Post, agreed: "The historic Oberlin College Conservatory ... showed why the school is such a national treasure with its wonderfully varied concert."
David H. Stull Appointed Dean of the Conservatory
When David H. Stull '89 was appointed the new dean of the Conservatory last May by Oberlin College President Nancy S. Dye, she called it "great news" for Oberlin, and noted that his appointment "was greeted with unanimous enthusiasm and support by Oberlin's faculty.
"David has a keen understanding of Oberlin's unique place as a top-tier music school and the challenges of the professional music world," she said. "The young musicians who study at Oberlin—and the artists and scholars who teach here—will find him to be an excellent advocate for their interests and a tireless promoter of their efforts."
Stull, who is also professor of brass studies, officially took office July 1, 2004, after serving as associate dean of the Conservatory for four years and acting dean during the spring 2004 sabbatical leave of Robert K. Dodson.
"I am very pleased and honored to undertake the leadership of the Conservatory," Stull said upon his appointment. "I look forward to continuing a legacy of excellence that will grow and flourish in the coming years. This is an outstanding community of performing artists and scholars, and I am privileged to be a part of it."
Prior to Oberlin, Stull was at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he served as a member of the brass faculty, director of admissions, and ultimately as assistant dean. Before his tenure at Lawrence, Stull was associate director of admissions at the Juilliard School. He also served as director of residential life at the Aspen Music Festival from 1992 to 1994.
A tubist, he has performed with the American Brass Quintet, the Milwaukee Ballet, the Bravo Colorado Music Festival, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra, among others. His performances have included appearances in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, and Merkin Hall in addition to tours throughout the United States and Europe. He has also recorded for commercial radio and television.
Stull has served as a guest speaker at the Interlochen Arts Academy on numerous occasions, has been a competition judge for Midwest Young Artists and for Juilliard's pre-college division, and has appeared on National Public Radio's Performance Today.
A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Stull studied tuba with Ronald Bishop at the Conservatory, obtaining a bachelor of music degree in performance and a bachelor of arts degree in English literature from the College. He also pursued further study at the Juilliard School in the American Brass Quintet program and holds a master of music degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Bridget-Michaele Reischl is New Conductor
Bridget-Michaele Reischl, music director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra since 2001, will join the Oberlin faculty in July as visiting associate professor of conducting and music director of the Oberlin Orchestras. She will retain her directorship of the Green Bay Symphony.
Since becoming the first American to win Italy's Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition in 1995, Reischl has been an active guest conductor internationally and throughout the United States.
From 1992 through 2004, Reischl was music director of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and associate professor of conducting at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin.
"Bridget Reischl is a phenomenal musician and teacher and a very gifted conductor," says Dean of the Conservatory David H. Stull. "We are enormously pleased to be bringing her to Oberlin."
Reischl is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. As a student of Robert Spano '83, she continued her studies as a conducting fellow at both the Aspen and the Tanglewood music festivals, where she worked with Seiji Ozawa, David Zinman '58, and Murray Sidlin. She is recorded on the Velut Luna, CRI, and Sea Breeze Record Company labels.
Reischl's first concert will be with the Oberlin Orchestra on Sunday, October 2, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. She will also conduct the spring opera, The Merry Wives of Windsor, in March 2006.
New Faculty Appointments at the Conservatory
New faculty appointments at the Conservatory for the 2004-05 academic year included Salvatore Champagne, associate professor of singing; Ross Feller, assistant professor of composition; Amelia Kaplan, assistant professor of composition, and Jan Miyake '96, assistant professor of music theory.
Feller recently served as an assistant professor at Georgia College and State University, where he coordinated music theory and composition programs. A specialist in contemporary saxophone techniques, he directed and performed with the GC&SU Jazz Combo. He studied composition with Henry Brant, Morgan Powell, and Salvatore Martirano. Feller's compositions have been finalists in the Gaudeamus Foundation International Composers' Competition (Amsterdam) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Young Composers' Competition (New York City). His work has been nominated for awards from the Theodore Presser Foundation and American Academy of Arts and Letters and has been performed throughout the United States and in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain. He earned a doctor of musical arts degree in composition-theory from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor of music degree, also in composition-theory, from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.
Kaplan earned a PhD in music composition from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in physics from Princeton University. A recipient of an ASCAP Young Composers' Grant for Chicago Chanson (1992), she also held a fellowship that year at the prestigious Gaudeamus International New Music Festival. She served as visiting assistant professor of composition and theory at the University of Iowa for four years and has held residencies at the McDowell Colony, Ucross, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Kaplan has studied with such composition scholars and composers as Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, John Eaton, Ralph Shapey, Franco Donatoni (at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where she received a diploma of merit), and with Tristan Murail and André Boucourechliev at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, where she earned a diploma. Her recent commissions include solo works for German violinist Annette Barbara-Vogel and bassoonist Benjamin Coelho.
Miyake has been visiting instructor of music theory at Oberlin since 2002. She earned bachelor of music and bachelor of arts degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Oberlin College in 1996, a master of arts degree from the Aaron Copland School of Music (Queens College), and a PhD from the Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2004. She has presented papers at annual meetings of the New York City Graduate Students in Music, the Society for Music Theory, and the Music Theory Society of New York State. Trained as a violist—at Oberlin she studied with Jeffrey Irvine and Lynne Ramsey—she is a research assistant to the acclaimed violinist Midori.
Andrea Kalyn Appointed Associate Dean
Andrea Kalyn is the Conservatory's new associate dean for academic affairs. She joined Oberlin in January 2005 after serving four years as assistant dean and musicologist at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
"Andrea brings a wealth of administrative and teaching experience to this position," says Dean of the Conservatory David H. Stull. "Her energy, musicianship, and extensive professional background will serve Oberlin extraordinarily well in the coming years. I am very pleased she has joined our staff."
At Oberlin, Kalyn will oversee curricular development and program evolution and will assist the dean with managing the Conservatory.
"I'm honored to be at Oberlin," says Kalyn. "The Conservatory is a remarkable place. The students are among the best in the country, and I'm looking forward to getting to know them and helping them meet their academic goals. The artists and scholars on the faculty are also second to none—it will be a professional as well as a personal joy to work with them."
Kalyn earned her PhD in musicology from the Eastman School of Music; her scholarship focuses on American music of the 20th century. Her bachelor's and master's degrees, also in musicology, are from the University of Western Ontario. She also holds an ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Kalyn has published articles on
composers Howard Hanson and Daniel Gregory Mason and has presented papers on the chamber music of Brahms and Schubert, among others.
Oberlin String Quartet Redux
In 1958, the same year that Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 1 premiered in Basel, Switzerland, the Oberlin String Quartet won the fourth prize in the Concours International de Quatuor, sponsored by H.M. Queen Elisabeth, in Liege, Belgium.
Bartók's concerto, inspired by his short-lived relationship with the violinist Stefi Geyer, was first heard 50 years after it was composed. It would be nearly that long before music by the Oberlin String Quartet would once again be heard. The ensemble disbanded in 1959, after four brief seasons.
Now a new Oberlin String Quartet has emerged. Formed in 2004 by Conservatory faculty members (violinist Gregory Fulkerson '71, violinist Kyung Sun Lee, violist Peter Slowik, and cellist Darrett Adkins '91), the ensemble made its first public appearance in Finney Chapel in December with a concert featuring Beethoven's String Quartet in
E-flat, Op. 127 and, with Associate Professor of Piano Angela Cheng, Brahms' Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. The quartet then embarked upon a tour of the West Coast that culminated in February with a performance at Cleveland's Reinberger Hall in Severance Hall.
The first Oberlin String Quartet also consisted of Conservatory faculty members and was formed at Oberlin in 1955 by violinist Andor Toth Sr. and violist William Berman. Violinist John Dalley and cellist Peter Howard joined in 1958.
International Piano Competition Winners
Wang Da, 17, from Shenyang, China, won the 10th Annual Oberlin International Piano Competition, held July 31, 2004, in Warner Concert Hall.
Second prize went to the Korean-born Sejoon Park, 14, of Falls Church, Virginia. The third-place award went to Sun-A Park, 16. Originally from Korea, she now lives with her family in Little Ferry, New Jersey. Kei Niedra, 14, of North Ridgeville, Ohio, and Hyo Kyun Shin, from Seoul, Korea, shared the fourth-place prize; Niedra also won the audience favorite award. Ying Cheng Yang, 17, of Shenyang, China, took fifth place.
Professor of Piano Robert Shannon is director of the competition, which is for pianists 13 through 18 years old. The 2005 event takes place July 24 through July 31.
The Steinway Technical Academy at Oberlin
The Steinway Technical Academy at Oberlin debuted in July 2004, marking the first time that the venerable piano builder has collaborated with another musical institution to provide off-site training for its field service technicians. Seventeen technicians from across the country were selected to participate, learning from Steinway and Oberlin technicians, including Director of Piano Technology John Cavanaugh. The company is "thrilled to be partnering with our oldest all-Steinway school," says John Patton, director of technical services for Steinway & Sons. "The technical support here is excellent and makes having this academy here possible." Steinway is partnering with Oberlin for a second workshop this summer.
Corporate Support for Live Broadcasts
Thanks to the generous support of three Oberlin alumni, the Conservatory is on the air.
Béla Szigethy '77 and Stewart A. Kohl '77 are the chief executive officers of the Riverside Company; Béla R. Schwartz '79 is its chief financial officer. A leading private equity firm specializing in premier companies, the Riverside Company sponsored the Conservatory's live broadcasts on 104.9 WCLV of the finals round of the 10th Annual Oberlin Piano Competition, violinist Jennifer Koh '97, the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, the Oberlin String Quartet at Reinberger Hall, and the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra at Severance Hall, conducted by James Gaffigan. Upcoming are delayed broadcasts of recent recitals by pianist Kotaro Fukuma and cellist Steven Isserlis '80 and, on July 30, 2005, the finals round of the 11th Annual Oberlin Piano Competition. All of WCLV's broadcasts are simulcast on www.wclv.com.
"The generosity of Béla, Stewart, and Béla has made it possible for alumni, friends, and parents of current students—not only in Cleveland but around the world—to hear music from Oberlin," says Dean of the Conservatory David H. Stull. "All of us are grateful for their outstanding contribution to our program."
Nights at the Opera
The cast of Albert Herring included, from left: Kate Lerner '06, Damien Pass '06, Megan Hart '05, Desiree Brodka '05, Michael Sansoni '06, and Todd Boyce '05. "No one stood out in Wednesday's cast ... They all did," wrote Donald Rosenberg in the Plain Dealer. "Only space restrictions prevent a detailing of every singer's sterling accomplishment."
The ensemble
of Orpheus in the Underworld
(photo by Jamilla Clarke)
All that jazz ... er, opera. The ensemble of Orpheus in the Underworld, seemed, wrote Rosenberg, "to be having an irreverent ball."
Steven Smith conducted both operas, with stage direction by Associate Professor of Opera Theater Jonathon Field.


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In Kodo, each factory maintains a set of resources shared by all the
EntityManagers or
PersistenceManagers produced by that factory.
Sharing common structures like connection pools and data caches
drastically reduces the resource consumption of each manager,
increasing your application's scalability. Kodo takes this concept
one step further by also giving its factories the ability to
act as servers for
PersistenceManagers or
EntityManagers on remote machines. You can
thus leverage the full JDO or Java Persistence API in your client
tier without duplicating limited resources like database connections on
each client.
In addition to ensuring that your application scales as more clients are added, this model may allow you to use Kodo in situations where the client machine cannot directly access the necessary server-side resources itself - for example, when the database is only available to the local network.
This remote capability means that you can design your application as a simple two-tiered servlet-database application, and then migrate to a more scalable servlet-Kodo middle tier-database architecture as the load on your system increases. This end picture looks much like a standard J2EE application server architecture, except that the code that uses the persistence APIs in the servlet does not need to change at all to toggle between the more performant two-tier architecture and the more scalable three-tier architecture.
Additionally, Kodo's remote capability is useful for applet and Java Web Start application development. In conjunction with the compressed HTTP transport, you can deploy code that uses standard persistence APIs in an applet or a Web Start application.
EntityManagers and
PersistenceManagers in these applications
will then connect back to the server that they were downloaded from in
order to access the database.
To configure a factory act as a standalone server to remote clients,
the factory's
kodo.PersistenceServer configuration
property to a plugin string (see
Section 2.4, "Plugin Configuration") describing the
implementation to use for remote communication. You can implement
your own
Transport, or use one of the
bulit-in options:
false: The default value. No server is
tcp: An alias for
, a TCP transport layer. This transport layer has
the following settings:
Port: The port the server will
listen on. Defaults to 5637.
Host: The host name of the
server. Defaults to
This setting is not used by the server, but by
clients. We discuss client configuration below.
SoTimeout: The socket read
timeout in milliseconds. Defaults to 0 for no
Decorators: See
Section 11.2.4, "Data Compression and Filtering"
Example 11.2. Configuring a Standalone Persistence Server
JPA XML format:
<property name="kodo.PersistenceServer" value="tcp(Port=5555)"/>
JDO properties format:
kodo.PersistenceServer: tcp(Port=5555)
kodo.remote.Remote class
Javadoc details the methods Kodo exposes for manually managing
a persistence server thread.
Example 11.3. Starting a Persistence Server
After obtaining the server factory for the first time, you must start the server thread. Attempting to start the server thread when it is already running or when there is no persistence server configured will have no effect.
import kodo.remote.*; import org.apache.openjpa.persistence.*; ... EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory ("kodo"); if (Remote.getInstance (OpenJPAPersistence.toBrokerFactory (emf)).startPersistenceServer ()) // server started... else // server not started; may have already been running or not configured
import kodo.jdo.*; ... PersistenceManagerFactory pmf = JDOHelper.getPersistenceManagerFactory (kodo.properties"); if (((KodoPersistenceManagerFactory) pmf).startPersistenceServer ()) // server started... else // server not started; may have already been running or not configured
Your Kodo distribution also includes a program to start a standalone
persistence server. You can run the program through its Java class,
kodo.jdbc.kernel.StartPersistenceServer, or
through the provided
startserver command-line
script. The script accepts the standard Kodo command-line arguments
outlined in Section 2.3, "Command Line Configuration".
Kodo's remote managers can communicate with the server
over HTTP, allowing you to use them through firewalls that shut off
other ports and protocols. In order to receive HTTP requests from
remote clients, Kodo includes the
. You can deploy this servlet into any standards-compliant
servlet container.
PersistenceServerServlet services
remote requests using an internal factory. The
servlet provides several mechanisms for configuring this factory:
First, the servlet checks the value of the
kodo.jndi servlet initialization parameter
(servlet initialization parameters are specified in the
web.xml deployment file; see
your servlet container documentation for details). If the
value of this parameter is non-null, Kodo attempts to look
up the
kodo.kernel.BrokerFactory at
the indicated JNDI location. (A
is the native Kodo component that underlies
PersistenceManagerFactory or
If the
kodo.jndi initialization parameter
is not set, Kodo checks the
initialization parameter. The value of this
parameter is a resource path to
an JPA XML
a JDO properties
file containing Kodo configuration properties.
Finally, Kodo checks the remainder of the servlet initialization parameters for Kodo configuration properties. These parameter values override the value supplied in the configuration file (if any).
If you use servlet parameters alone to configure the
persistence server, Kodo will not know whether to apply JPA
or JDO defaults. Set the
kodo.Specification servlet parameter to
ejb or
jdo to tell
Kodo which specification defaults to apply.
You can make sure that the servlet's factory is configured as expected by navigating to the servlet in your web browser. The servlet will display a simple web page detailing the configuration of its internal factory.
EntityManagers and
PersistenceManagers are remote
proxies to server-side managers created by the server-side
factory you are communicating with. From an API standpoint, a
client manager is exactly like a local one, complete
with all Kodo API extensions. Behind the scenes, however, the
actions you take on a client manager are sent to the
corresponding server-side manager for processing. For
performance reasons and because your persistent objects are not
proxies themselves, each client manager has a local
cache of managed objects, synchronized with the server-side
manager's cache.
You obtain client
EntityManagers and
PersistenceManagers in
the same way you obtain local managers: from an
EntityManagerFactory or
PersistenceManagerFactory that you have constructed
through JCA or the
Persistence helper /
JDOHelper helper.
Client configuration properties are the same as those used for
local Kodo operation, with the following exceptions:
You must set the
kodo.BrokerFactory property to
kodo.PersistenceServer setting is
used to find the remote server. If you are using a
server, the value of this property is typically the
same as its value on the server. If you are using the
HTTP servlet
, the value of this property on the client is:
http in the setting above is an alias
for the
, whose
URL property indicates
the URL to connect to. You can also specify a
Decorators property, as discussed in
Section 11.2.4, "Data Compression and Filtering".
kodo.ConnectionRetainMode property
controls how the client handles connections to the server,
not how the server handles connections to the database.
The available values are the same as the options for
database connections:
always: Each client manager
obtains a single connection to its server-side
counterpart and uses this connection until it is
transaction: A connection is
obtained when each transaction begins, and
relinquished when the transaction completes.
Nontransactional connections are obtained as needed
and released immediately.
on-demand: A connection to the
server is obtained when needed, and immediately
closed when the request has been fulfilled. This
is the default.
kodo.ConnectionFactoryProperties controls
pooling not for database connections, but for connections
from the client machine to the remote server. The following
pooling options are available:
ExceptionAction: The action
to take when when a connection that has thrown
an exception is returned to the pool. Set to
destroy to destroy the
connection. Set to
validate to
validate the connection (subject to the
TestOnBorrow, and other test settings).
Set to
none to ignore the fact
that the connection has thrown an exception, and
assume it is still usable. Defaults to
MaxActive: The maximum number of
connections in use at one time. Defaults to 8.
MaxIdle: The maximum number of
idle connections to keep in the pool. Defaults
to 8.
MaxWait: The maximum number of
milliseconds to wait for a free connection to
become available before giving up. Defaults to
MinEvictableIdleTimeMillis: The
minimum number of milliseconds that a
connection can sit idle before it becomes a
candidate for eviction from the pool. Defaults to
30 minutes. Set to 0 to never evict a connection
based on idle time alone.
TestOnBorrow: Whether to to
validate connections before obtaining them from the
pool. Defaults to
TestOnReturn: Set to
true to validate connections
when they are returned to the pool.
TestWhileIdle: Set to
true to periodically validate
idle connections.
The number of milliseconds between runs of the
eviction thread. Defaults to -1, meaning the
eviction thread will never run.
The minimum number of milliseconds that must elapse
before a connection will ever be re-validated. This
property is usually used with
TestOnReturn to
reduce the number of validations performed, because
the same connection is often borrowed and returned
many times in short periods of time. Defaults to
300000 (5 minutes).
WhenExhaustedAction: The action
to take when there are no available connections
in the pool. Set to
exception to
immediately throw an exception. Set to
block to block until a connection
is available or the maximum wait time is exceeded.
Set to
grow to automatically
grow the pool. Defaults to
Remember that persistent connections to the server consume
server-side resources, and therefore should be minimized
if possible. To disable pooling altogether, set
MaxActive to
Database connectivity and JDBC-related properties are
ignored by the client factory. All
database communication takes place on the server, so these
properties are only valid on the server-side factory.
There are, however, two exceptions to
this rule. If specified, the client will transfer your
settings to the server. This allows different
remote clients to connect as different database users.
Other than the bullet points above, you configure client factories in the same way as local factories. Keep in mind, though, that the configuration you specify on the client only applies to the client factory, not the server. For example, if you configure a data cache and query cache on the client, these caches will only "see" changes made by the client; they will not automatically synchronize with changes made by any other client or changes made on the server. Thus, you will typically want to configure components like the data cache, query cache, lock manager, etc. on the server only (where clients can still benefit from them by proxy), and turn them off on the client.
Example 11.5. Client Configuration
JPA XML format:
<property name="kodo.BrokerFactory" value="remote"/> <property name="kodo.PersistenceServer" value="tcp(Host=kodohost.mydomain.com, Port=5555)"/> <property name="kodo.ConnectionRetainMode" value="transaction"/> <property name="kodo.ConnectionFactoryProperties" value="MaxIdle=3, ValidationTimeout=60000"/>
JDO properties format:
kodo.BrokerFactory: remote kodo.PersistenceServer: tcp(Host=kodohost.mydomain.com, Port=5555) kodo.ConnectionRetainMode: transaction kodo.ConnectionFactoryProperties: MaxIdle=3, ValidationTimeout=60000
Example 11.6. HTTP Client Configuration
JPA XML format:
<property name="kodo.BrokerFactory" value="remote"/> <property name="kodo.PersistenceServer" value="http(URL=http://jdohost.mydomain.com/tomcat/pmserver)"/> <property name="kodo.ConnectionRetainMode" value="transaction"/> <property name="kodo.ConnectionFactoryProperties" value="MaxIdle=3, ValidationTimeout=60000"/>
JDO properties format:
kodo.BrokerFactory: remote kodo.PersistenceServer: http(URL=http://jdohost.mydomain.com/tomcat/pmserver) kodo.ConnectionRetainMode: transaction kodo.ConnectionFactoryProperties: MaxIdle=3, ValidationTimeout=60000
Kodo's built in transport implementations -
http - allow you to wrap their data streams in decorators
to add additional functionality such as data compression and
filtering. Each accepts a
configuration property specifying a semicolon-separated list of
to decorate the input and output streams between the
client and server. Each item in the list can be the full class
name of a custom decorator, or one of the following built-in
gzip: Use gzip compression when
transferring data.
Example 11.7. Enabling Compression with the TCP Transport
On the server, set the
property to:
tcp(Port=5555, Decorators=gzip)
And on the client:
tcp(Host=jdohost.mydomain.com, Port=5555, Decorators=gzip)
Using Kodo's remote features involves deploying Kodo to the server machine as well as one or more client machines. Deploying Kodo on the server is exactly the same as deploying Kodo for local use. You must include all Kodo libraries, your configuration properties file (if you use one), your logging configuration file (again, if you use one), your JDBC drivers, your enhanced persistent classes, your metadata, and your O/R mapping information. All of these topics are covered in other sections of this manual.
Deploying Kodo on the client is also the same as deploying Kodo for local use, with two small exceptions:
JDBC libraries are not required on the client.
O/R mapping information is not required on the client.
Note that you may include the above information in your deployment; it is simply not required.
The Kodo remote package provides a mechanism for your application to
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This is how my room looks like (picture from the web, just example - Sliding doors with vertical blinds).
I'm looking for an easy solution. And I do know that sleeping masks exist, I just hate them.
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I think only the owner of gotop100 can delete your account. Our sites are only sub-domain which we don't have much control of it.
Not that we need to encourage people to remove themselves from a topsite but I find it odd there is no removal option when a member wants to remove themselves from a topsite. I recently tried to remove a site from a topsite and found there was no option to do so. I made an attempt to contact the topsite manager but I never got a reply. I had to resort to changing my info and using REMOVE ME as my site title. I was just curious as to why there currently isn't an option to remove oneself.
I think only the owner of gotop100 can delete your account. Our sites are only sub-domain which we don't have much control of it.
I don't mean being able to remove a topsite all together. Though that should be an option too, or at least to flag your topsite for removal.
What I'm talking about is if your a member of a topsite... being able to remove your listing from that topsite.
Even.... dare I say it (dont hurt me!), Ultimate Topsites has these basic options.
Along those same lines, it would be great if someone who has not clicked in for say, 3 months, would be automatically deleted.
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Texas ban on gay marriage ruled unconstitutional
Judge says law demeans same-sex couples but delays order until appeals can be heard
A Texas federal judge handed gay rights advocates another major victory on Wednesday, this time in one of the nation's largest and most conservative states, when he declared its prohibition of same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia of San Antonio follows similar rulings in at least four other states and paves the way for a ruling by the nation's high court on the polarizing issue.
"Texas' current marriage laws deny homosexual couples the right to marry, and in doing so, demean their dignity for no legitimate reason," Garcia wrote.
The judge prohibited the state from enforcing its 2003 law against same-sex unions and the 2005 state constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman.
But he stayed that order until expected appeals against his ruling have been heard by higher courts.
Constitutional scholar Josh Blackman said Wednesday's ruling would likely join the torrent of other recent court decisions about same-sex marriage.
"The Supreme Court will have to resolve this," said Blackman, a professor at Houston's South Texas College of Law. "They'll have the one from Utah, the one from Virginia, Texas, there's a bunch of them. They'll take them all at once."
The Texas lawsuit, filed by a lesbian couple from Austin who married in Boston in 2009 and wanted it to be recognized in Texas, and two gay men from Plano who want to marry, is one of three such active lawsuits in the state.
Conflicting laws
Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government cannot refuse to recognize valid same-sex marriages in states where they are permitted.
Now, Garcia said in his ruling, lower courts must decide "whether a state can do what the federal government cannot - discriminate against same-sex couples."
"After careful consideration, and applying the law as it must, this court holds that Texas' prohibition on same-sex marriage conflicts with the United States Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process," Garcia wrote.
The state's laws, he added, deny same-sex couples the same rights to marriage enjoyed by other citizens simply because they wish to be married to someone of the same sex.
"Today's court decision is not made in defiance of the great people of Texas or the Texas Legislature," Garcia wrote, "but in compliance with the United States Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.
"Without a rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose, state-imposed inequality can find no refuge in our United States Constitution."
Blackman said politicians in Texas will likely try to get an expedited hearing in front of the appeals court at the next level, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Even if the conservative 5th Circuit overturns the ruling, the decision will ultimately be decided by the nine Supreme Court justices in Washington, Blackman said.
Candidates differ
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the putative Republican candidate in this year's gubernatorial election, said the state would appeal Garcia's ruling.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled over and over again that states have the authority to define and regulate marriage," Abbott said. "The Texas Constitution defines marriage as between one man and one woman. If the Fifth Circuit honors those precedents, then today's decision should be overturned and the Texas Constitution will be upheld."
State Sen. Wendy Davis, the likely Democratic candidate for governor, issued a brief statement in support of the judge's decision.
"I believe that all Texans who love one another and are committed to spending their lives together should be allowed to marry," she said.
Gov. Rick Perry said the ruling was yet another attempt by the federal government to tell Texans how to live their lives.
"Texans spoke loud and clear by overwhelmingly voting to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman in our constitution, and it is not the role of the federal government to overturn the will of our citizens," he said. "We will continue to fight for the rights of Texans to self-determine the laws of our state."
Two of the plaintiffs in the Texas case, Cleopatra De Leon and Nicole Dimetman, met in 2001 and were married in Boston in September 2009.
De Leon is the biological mother of their only child, but because of Texas law, Dimetman could not be considered the child's legal parent without going through an expensive adoption process.
The other plaintiffs, Victor Holmes and Mark Pharriss, have been a couple in a committed relationship since 1997. Last October, they applied for a marriage license in Bexar County and were refused because they are men.
Garcia noted the "politically charged and controversial" national debate over same-sex marriages on both the federal and state level.
Most states, he said, have either legalized gay marriage or enacted laws and constitutional amendments prohibiting it.
Six states - California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New Mexico - have legalized same-sex marriage through court decisions; eight states - Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont - have done so through legislation; and three - Vermont, Maryland and Washington - have legalized it through popular vote.
Parker not surprised
Houston Mayor Anise Parker, who is gay and recently married her longtime partner at a ceremony in California, said she was not surprised by the ruling.
"I have known all along that this is where we are heading in my home state and across the country," she said. "It is one more step in a long quest for equal rights that will end at the Supreme Court."
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, who authored the amendment to the state constitution that banned same-sex marriage when he was a state senator in 2005 issued a short, but to-the-point Tweet on the ruling:
"Having carried the constitutional amendment defining marriage between 1 man & 1 woman, I will change my definition of marriage when God does."


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Positive changes in South Burlington
Editorial aired on NewsChannel 5 on Friday, May 10, 2013
We heard some good news this week for folks in our area.
Trader Joe's efforts to get a store built in South Burlington are one step closer to reality.
The trendy, value-oriented grocer still has another hurdle or two to clear – but overall, we're happy to see this project moving forward.
Having high-quality established businesses looking to put down roots in our communities is a good thing.
We think the store will be complementary to the existing businesses in that area by bringing more people into all of the stores and keeping the economy chugging along.
And, it's not just the Trader Joe's addition – this expansion coupled with the City Center development and a new interim city manager signal exciting times of growth in South Burlington.
The city is an important part of the Chittenden County economy – and it's encouraging to see things moving in the right direction.


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Student or Learner
Could anyone tell me whether the following sentences are grammatical and natural?
1. May I know if you will go to school tomorrow?
2. May I know will you go to school tomorrow?
I tried to search for the usage of "May I know" in both British and American corpora, but I cannot find any "May I know if" pattern... It makes me wonder whether it is an idiomatic English saying or not...
Thank you!
Could you tell me/let me know work better for me.
How about if I would like to ask in a more polite way, what should I say?
Can I say "May I ask if you will go to school tomorrow?"
Or is there any better way of saying?


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I really don't see the problem.
Books are essential... e-books are not. Therefore they are a luxury.
No, I don't think I will be signing any petitions about this.
Many of those finding e-book readers under their Christmas tree have been surprised to discover that electronic titles attract value added tax, despite the dead-tree versions being VAT-free. As the UK VAT rate returns to its pre-recession level of 17.5 per cent, owners of e-book readers are finding out that they have to pay it …
To be honest, I'd rather scan and OCR a physical book than buy an ebook. I'm just an old luddite at heart, but I don't buy anything that comes with DRM infection, even if it's easy to remove... and I certainly don't buy electric copies of books I already own in paper form.
There's certainly a VAT on the readers, and it's a fair chunk of change, so they're getting you twice if they charge you for the text as well.
Interesting that the tax is there at all though. The Gummint[tm] is obviously making a distinction between a book with words in, and the words themselves. Is VAT payable on a blank notebook? I rather think it is, and in that case, they're implying on the one hand that the words have a negative VAT applied when they're stuck to paper and a positive VAT when they're stuck in a file. Illogical, captain!
Who else can see the wrinkle? Buy this nice shiny e-book - its VAT free!
(oh, and by the way, it comes on a reusable 32GB SD card or whatever other storage device would benefit from being punted VAT free).
I was about to say, cue future budget and watch Gordo back pedal with cries of "Oh you naughty people, I never intended you to take advantage of my legislation like that!", but with a bit of luck Gordo and mates will be history by then.
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"i, or j, is not the result of calculating the square root of -1 (which is impossible).
i, or j, simply represent the square root of -1."
No, sorry. Try again. (There are three reasonable viewpoints: either only the non-negative whole numbers exist, either all rational numbers (fractions) exist, or you can have any number system you want, so i is an element of the complex numbers, and its square is -1. Just because it's called 'imaginary', and real numbers are called 'real', doesn't make one more acceptable than the other. Indeed, i is a much nicer number than the vast majority of 'real' numbers, which are impossible to ever write down.)
i (or j) isn't just a symbol and does have a meaning on the complex number plane - it represents "1 unit" of the axis at 90° to the axis where what we would consider normal numbers lie on.
If you think -1 is really 1 going the otherway - then you can think of it as -1 = 1 @ 180°, then j = 1 @ 90° - google "complex numbers"
Normally most of us don't need to use complex numbers - but just image the headaches if we needed more than 2 dimensions to our numbers as I am sure String theory probably does
While it's not likely that someone would want tens, hundreds or even thousands of books on a train journey they may want to own a large number of books -- where would you suggest someone store hundreds or thousands of real books? We don't all have houses large enough for libraries you know.
That's forgetting the fact that, for example, carrying a book in a language foreign to yourself and a dictionary may be a little heavier than carrying one ebook.
You may not personally benefit from ebooks, but I would have thought you could appreciate why others might.
For the same reason that many people have a few days worth of music on an MP3 player that only has a day's battery life.
I have about 50 books on my reader right now. I'm still only reading one at a time, but if the storage is there, why not. And if I am delayed somewhere, and I have my reader with me, running out of book is not a problem.
Seriously.. The storage thing is nice, but not a huge advantage. The ability to carry a a big thick book in a device that is about a centimetre thick is nice too, but even that is not the killer feature.
The killer feature.. For me at least, is the ability to change the font size. Something you don't appreciate until your eyes start going. And the huge amount of free (and legal) books out there is not bad either.
Tech manuals for hardware engineers? DBAs and system Admins ( Win and Unix ) visiting remote sites? Both will instantly have all their manuals and books to hand to look stuff up rather than visit, say they can't do the job and have to charge you for another site visit?
The only reason I want one is for tech manuals when I am out and about on jobs.
So there you go.
All I do is go back to my billiard days, and just put one colour of balls into the shape of the letter "J". I can 'imagine' how to do that, even when completely rat-faced on Friday lunchtime.
How can a Gummint impose that with legal download (Gutenberg) and illegal D/L (available on p2p networks - not illegal in themselves, natch) beats the bejeezus out of me.
VAT == artificially man-made == doomed. Doomed, I say!
"How can a Gummint impose that with legal download (Gutenberg)"
VAT is a percentage of sale price ("value" added tax is a misnomer). 17.5% of free = 0. And 0 tax is easy to collect.
"and illegal D/L"
Hmmm... Last time I checked, the plague of drug-fuelled happy-slapping hoodie-shoplifters terrorising our inner cities (as defined by the Daily Mail) hadn't caused the government to abolish VAT on the items most commonly shoplifted....
You could argue that paper books result in the destruction of forests, leading to global warming etc, in this argument paper books would be taxed at a higher rate than e-books.
Back in the real world until (if ever) e-books really take off and the hardware gets to be cheap as chips this could not be considered.
I could argue that books mean more forests planted to produce paper. Less paper needed, less forests needed. Forests are the lungs of Gaia or whatever. RealBooks thus help sequester carbon so should be cheaper. Plus I can read RealBooks in the bath. Not sure I want to do that with an expensive lithium battery powered gizmo.
Would the eco-mentalists please stop with the idea tht an e-Book is more eco-friendly ?
Wood-pulp used to make paper comes from forests that were planted for that very reason, not from hardwood forests that suck up most of the CO2, and those same forests are replaced by the same companies that harvest them. It's no different to a farmer growing wheat, the timescales between planting/harvest are just longer.
As for the e-Book, well, we'll just ignore the heavy metals involved in the manufacture of them, the strip mining that got the copper, the corrosives used to clean the ICU's and so on and so forth with the whole thing.
This doesn't even take into account that my paper book works all the time. Lets not forget the Doomsday book, the original (hundreds of years old) can still be read, the new version put on laser-disk in the 80's, cant.
But don't forget that processing wood pulp to paper is actually quite a chemically intense process. There is a huge amount of bleaching that goes on and quite a lot of energy is used.
Indeed similar to any crop such as wheat the paper locks up the CO2 until it ultimately degrades. With wheat that will happen fairly quickly as we eat our cereal but for a book there is a good chance that it will sit on a shelf for years or decades locking up the CO2 in the process.
I'd suggest you do not ignore the pollution involved in manufacture of the reader. Then the fact that it takes some energy just to keep the thing lit up to be able to read the 'book' that would otherwise cost nothing to read in paper version means it keeps on polluting (arguably not by very much).
I'd be curious to know if there has been a proper life cycle analysis comparing a paper book to a digital book.
There's an official project for a PC-based reader.
There is a working one in the hands of a fellow Acorn enthusiast:
(complete with more details than you ever needed to know...)
It is still around, and the data (which I believe to be largely analogue) is still available, so it isn't dead yet. It might be "largely unavailable", but then I've never seen the real domesday book...
the article specifically mentions "children's clothes", if vat's only on essentials, does that mean adults are legally allowed to walk around naked?
-i don't think that's the case, it just seemed odd that it didn't just say clothes, i would have thought they would fall into the category of essentials more than books really, no matter the age of the person wearing them..
Sod that idea just to bring VAT into line with a product, that unless the publishers are willing to give up a chunk of margin to ensure e-books are significantly cheaper than their paper versons, will slowly fall into non use except for a few gadget boys and tech peole who are sick of lumping wads of tree body around.
Books educate people as do libraries and should be VAT free.
Firstly I would argue that e-books are non-essential and the government shouldn't drop VAT on anything until the budget defecit is eliminated.
Secondly I would expect removal of VAT to be only briefly noticible, retailers would probably increase the prices back to the price point ebooks were at previously simply increasing their margins and not benefiting the consumer (or tax payer) at all.
>Firstly I would argue that e-books are non-essential
All e-books just because they are electronic?
So a nursing manual as an e-book is non essential but a Jeffery Archer on paper is?
Or do we setup a dept to go through each book deciding if its essential or not?
The 'essential' test was the result of an early test case which greatly expanded VAT's reach. It is easier to include something in the VAT rules by showing it is not essential than it is to force something to have VAT by proving its a 'luxury'.
Here is a paper on environmental impact of ebooks:
Overall, the conventional book system required more raw materials and water inputs,
consumed more energy, and produced more air and water emissions and solid wastes than
the e-reader system under baseline conditions. Major conclusions from the baseline LCI
are as follows:
• For the conventional book system, LCI results were largely driven by three
factors: (1) textbook paper production, (2) the relatively large amount of
electricity consumed during book printing operations, and (3) personal
• For the e-reader system, LCI results were driven by the electricity generated
for on-screen viewing.
E books cost less to make but are priced at levels that mean higher profits for vendors. If vendors are worried about customers paying tax they should cut the price. We all have sen the way that when VAT was cut some vendors just kept the price the same, keeping more profit.
Anyway, e books aren't books. A book is a thing you can give or lend or sell on. You can't do that with e books because vendors will want to keep as much control as possible, Some can even take them out of e book readers.
"Anyway, e books aren't books. A book is a thing you can give or lend or sell on. You can't do that with e books because vendors will want to keep as much control as possible,"
Just because vendors don't allow ebooks to be lent (well, in the main anyway) and resold, is not the ebook's fault.
As you correctly say, the current near fatal flaw with eBooks is that the vendors are being greedy. Their margins must be huge on these things. They haven't learnt a thing from the music industry. The one thing that stops me buying ebooks is their ridiculously high price.
What really gets my goat is that they continue with the ridiculous notion of hardback pricing on a electronic medium. The ebook comes out at £15 and then 6 months later drops to £6.99 for exactly the same file! Paper hardbacks are genuinely a different product from the paperback.
Unless ebooks become affordable, they will continue to fizzle as they have done for years.
The EU statement about e-book VAT clarly states that it applies to "any similar physical medium" (similar to paper books). That rules out e-books which are electronic files and only perhaps applies to ebook reading devices. Written as such, it looks dumb and useless.
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As an expat on assignment out of the UK for a year, ebooks are a godsend given the weight limits, import restrictions, etc. of the country I am in. And I use my smartphone as an ebook reader so the environmental cost of the reader is nothing because I had the phone already. Well, maybe I charge the battery slightly more now.
Of course, here's a petition that might actually do something:
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