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Iloveyourbackpack posted a topic in Game Server FeedbackTotal War | Chicago Provided by FFO https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/squad/3362671 Teamspeak: ts3.ffosquad.net:9991 Website: https://ffosquad.net/ Discord: https://discord.io/FFOSquad Live stats; Deaths and Incaps that update every 10 seconds: http://ffosquad.net/stats Server Rules: -No bigoted language Although we are usually concerned with the intent behind language rather than the use of any particular words, we make an exception for language which is primarily associated with hate speech towards a particular demographic. Regardless of intent, the cultural associations with these words makes their usage unconducive to a friendly environment. Depending on the severity of the infraction, you may be kicked, and or banned immediately. -Do not consciously hinder your team Examples of this include, but are not limited to, intentional teamkilling, building irrelevant superFOBs, sitting in main, etc. This is not about player skill; all skill levels are welcome as long as a player is making an honest effort to contribute to their team. This rule is an effort to facilitate teamplay. -Squad Leaders are required to have a microphone We support and encourage new Squad Leaders to step up and try the reigns. However, we do expect you to utilize your voice comms to better facilitate communication and teamwork on the team. -No Intentional Glitching, Cheating, or Hacking Intentional glitching will result in a kick, Cheating and Hacking will result in a ban, and will be promptly reported to the Squad Devs, with all available evidence. -Pretending to be FFO Member, Admin, or Mod This will result in an immediate ban, no warnings will be given. -Ban evasions of any kind will result in a permanent ban If you attempt to evade a ban regardless of the initial offence, you will receive a permanent ban. This includes disconnecting after breaking rules. -If the server is full you may be removed for being AFK This is in no way meant to be a punishment, this is just to make room for people who want to play.


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Simplicity attracts brilliant and positive thoughts. It is as though you are compelled to contemplate new philosophies and ideas when you are within a bare room. It allows you to dream of making ships and building towers in order that the world will benefit from your lofty ideas.
It seems that the value of Japanese interior design lies in the creation of simple interiors with great potentials to permit the people within to go about their lives with constant vigor and consistent productivity. The elements are controlled in their colors, styles and distribution so as not to hinder on the path of human growth.
Japanese interior design is composed of simple indoor structures, unadorned furnishings and one or two focal points. These interior elements combine in a harmonious way, each element playing its part to enhance the appearance of a space and come up with the perfect balance of austere environment and tranquil indoor setting. It is the aim of Japanese interior design to be functional and beneficial, and at the same time, to infuse beauty in the most unexpected places and the most inconspicuous elements. The rich texture and subdued color of the tatami mat can seem negligible but in an interior that is clean and simple, the tatami mat blends and adapts rather well. The appearance of the shoji screens as wall partitions, although uniform and continuous, creates an understated elegance that cannot be compared to the warm and appealing texture of a brick wall. The interior elements can stand their ground when placed beside their much more detailed and elaborate counterparts. The austerity and beauty of the traditional Japanese garden placed outside the house or in the courtyard bears a vivid contrast to the floral gardens outside English country homes. The color of the plants and flowers remain warm-toned and earthy instead of vibrant and colorful.
Each element in a Japanese style interior is intended to be a cooperative participant in the enhancement of the entire space. They would rather blend in than stand out. Everything is flowing and continuous just like the breeze that circulates within a Japanese home. The walls have one uniform and cohesive detail just like the floors and ceiling. The furnishings are simple with plain solid colored fabrics. A lacquer armoire and blue and green vases can break the monotony but only in a very subtle way that still doesn't interrupt the overall look of the interior, rather they polish it and make it more memorable with their presence.


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Google Play Billing is a service that lets you sell digital content on Android. This document describes the fundamental building blocks of a Google Play Billing solution. Knowledge of these building blocks is necessary to decide how to implement your specific Google Play Billing solution.
If you want to sell physical goods on Android, see Google Pay.
Note: Ensure that you comply with applicable laws in the countries where you distribute apps.
The following is a list of the high-level building blocks of a Google Play Billing solution:
- Google Play. An online store where users can download digital products.
- Google Play Console. The interface app developers use to publish apps on Google Play. App developers use the Google Play Console to identify details about their app, including any in-app products. For more information, refer to The Google Play Console.
Google API Console. The console for managing backend APIs, such as the Google Play Developer API. Create service accounts here to verify purchases and subscriptions from your secure backend server.
- Android device. Any device used to run Android apps, such as a tablet or mobile phone.
- Android app. An application intended to run on an Android device.
- Secure backend server. A developer-provided server used to implement purchase verification or subscription features, such as real-time developer notifications.
- The Play Store app. The app responsible for managing all operations related to the Google Play Billing. All requests made by your app will be handled by the Play Store app.
- Google Play Billing Library. An API that developers use to implement Google Play Billing within an app.
- Google Play Developer API. A REST API used to programmatically perform a number of publishing and app-management tasks. It includes two components, the Subscriptions and Google Play Billing API used to manage purchases and subscriptions, and the Publishing API to upload and publish apps, and other publishing-related tasks.
Real-time developer notifications. Server push notifications
that let you monitor state changes, such as
SUBSCRIPTION_RECOVERED, for Play-managed subscriptions.
In-app product types
Google Play Billing can be used to sell the following types of in-app products:
- One-time products: An in-app product requiring a single, non-recurring charge to the user's form of payment. Additional game levels, premium loot boxes, and media files are examples of one-time products. The Google Play Console refers to one-time products as managed products, and the Google Play Billing library calls them "INAPP".
- Subscriptions: An in-app product requiring a recurring charge to the user's form of payment. Online magazines and music streaming services are examples of subscriptions. The Google Play Billing Library calls these "SUBS".
Purchase tokens and order IDs
Google Play Billing tracks products and transactions using purchase tokens and order IDs.
- A purchase token is a string that represents a buyer's entitlement to a product on Google Play. It indicates that a Google user has paid for a specific product, represented by a SKU.
- An order ID is a string that represents a financial transaction on Google Play. This string is included in a receipt that is emailed to the buyer, and third-party developers use the order ID to manage refunds in the Order Management section of the Google Play Console. Order IDs are also used in sales and payout reports.
For one-time products, every purchase creates a new token and a new order ID.
For subscriptions, an initial purchase creates a purchase token and an order ID. For each continuous billing period, the purchase token stays the same and a new order ID is issued. Upgrades, downgrades, and re-signups all create new purchase tokens and order IDs.
In-app product configuration options
One-time products and subscriptions have several common configurable options within the Google Play Console. Following are the most important common configurable options:
- Title - A short description of the in-app product, such as "loot box."
- Description - A longer description of the in-app product, such as "A special in-game treasure chest containing useful stuff for your character." This field may be used in your app's store listings page to describe your in-app product.
- Product ID - A unique, human readable ID for your product. Product IDs are also called SKUs in the Google Play Billing Library.
- Price / Default Price - The amount the user will pay for the in-app product. Default price has a slightly different meaning depending on the type of in-app product:
- The default price for a one-time product reflects the amount (in that user's preferred currency) the user will be charged for the product. The default price is charged to the customer once for each one-time product purchase.
- The default price for a subscription is the price the user will be charged in that user's preferred currency after they enter a regular billing cycle (subscriptions can have free trial and introductory pricing too). The default price is charged to the customer on a recurring basis for each subscription that a user has purchased.
A single app can have multiple in-app products available for purchase, each with a different Product ID and price. The Google Play Console provides pricing templates which are used to easily configure several in-app products that share the same price.
Unique one-time product configuration options
Promo codes are codes that a user uses to get a one-time product free of charge. The user enters the promo code in your app or in the Google Play Store app to receive the one-time product at no cost. Use promo codes to build a base of users for your one-time products.
Unique subscription product configuration optionsThe Google Play Console offers a lot of flexibility when creating subscription products. Following is a list of the options available for your subscription products:
- Billing period: The frequency at which a user is charged while
their subscription is active. You can choose between weekly, 1 month, 3
months, 6 months, and annual billing periods in the Google Play Console.
Billing continues indefinitely at the interval and price specified for the subscription. At each subscription renewal, Google Play charges the user account automatically, then notifies the user of the charges afterward by email.
- Free trial period: An amount of time during which a user may
access a subscription without being billed. A free trial period is a way to
entice users to try your subscription before committing to purchase it.
You can set a free trial period of 3 or more days.
- Introductory price: The price of the subscription over a certain number of initial, "introductory" billing periods. Introductory price is a way to entice users to try your subscription while simultaneously gaining some revenue. The Introductory price must be less than the subscription's normal price.
- Grace period: The amount of time a user's subscription will remain active, giving the user additional time to fix their payment issue. A grace period starts when a user's form of payment, such as a credit card, is declined.
- Account hold: The state a subscription can enter when a user does not update their form of payment during the grace period. Account hold lasts 30 days during which time the subscription content is not available to the user.
For more details about each of these options, refer to Create a subscription in the Google Play Console help center.
Next stepsNow that you have studied most of the concepts of Google Play Billing, you are ready to implement Google Play Billing for your app. Implementing Google Play Billing involves the following steps:
- Configure your in-app products using the Google Play Console:
- Use the Google Play Billing Library
- Test Google Play Billing


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Before an Airbus A380 ever takes to the skies, its components and sections are transported by air, sea and road to its final assembly site in southern France. This is a feat of logistics involving half of Europe
One might be forgiven for thinking they were expecting the pope. The inhabitants of the tiny French town of Lévignac (population 500) have been lining the roadside for three hours. It's a Wednesday night, half an hour before midnight. Children scamper about the sidewalks and the gendarmes stand guard outside the pizzeria. Old and young, male and female, everyone crowds into the old town marketplace. An elderly woman in her best black dress leans out of the window and waves.
But it isn't the pope. Instead, a very different kind of convoy rumbles into sight. Ten policemen on BMW motorcycles form the vanguard, followed by a squadron of red flashing lights. Next come the yellow security vans with illuminated signs proclaiming "Convoi exceptionnel!" (Watch out, oversized load!).
At last, the long-awaited silhouettes take shape and the Airbus A380, its fuselage in three sections, rolls into view on flatbed trailers pulled by huge trucks. Looming against the sky like a bizarre red-and-white sculpture is the horizontal tail unit. What a strange, breathtaking sight – or when's the last time the parts of a wide-body double-decker passed your front door?
The A380 convoy takes this route on a regular basis. The A380 sections and components, manufactured in various different European cities, are transported by ship to Pauillac near Bordeaux, where they are loaded onto barges. After traveling 95 kilometers up the Garonne river to Langon, they begin the final leg of their journey overland to Toulouse. The route leads through L'Isle Jourdain, Lévignac, along country roads and through wooded areas before arriving at the Airbus final assembly site.
Oversized loads are a common enough sight on the highway: wind turbines, pipelines, prefab houses – quite a few unwieldy objects are transported by road. But this is the world's largest passenger jet, and it's traveling through rural southern France! Monsieur Leroche stands among the onlookers in Lévignac, cap in hand, a cigarillo dangling from his lips: "It's incroyable, every time the A380 drives through our little village. Nobody here would want to miss it. And of course we are all very proud that the final assembly is being carried out right here in France."
The nose of the aircraft comes slowly into view. The metal hull is a yellowy green and the cockpit wrapped and taped like a dinosaur with a bandaged face. The middle section maneuvers itself through the narrow street next. It rises up like a wall as high as the old village houses. People stand with their heads thrown back, staring, their digital cameras flashing. The clearance to the houses is just two meters on either side. The Airbus moves forward, a ghostly, illuminated high-tech tube that has to pass through these narrow streets like through the eye of a needle.
"We spend a year learning how to do this," says Thierry Morainville, who drives one of the trucks that pull the flatbed trailers. "The steering, gauging the bends, loading the sections, the hydraulics, distributing the weight – we can't afford to let anything go wrong." Each segment is bolted onto a jig, a special kind of frame that is pulled on 48 little wheels. The middle section of the fuselage weighs 63 tons, and the entire load a total of 230 tons. The maneuvering has to be done with millimeter precision. It's almost like asking an elephant to jump through a hoop.
The drivers use walkie-talkies to maintain constant contact with the control vehicle, and the very long antennas on top of the trucks are for GPS navigation. The vehicles have to follow a precalculated "ligne blanche," or optimal line without straying an inch. On really tricky stretches, the transportation experts walk beside the giant fuselage. Is the driver approaching the bend correctly? Watch out for the street lamp! There's nothing more reliable than a good pair of human eyes – and an experienced team. Daniel Molière is in charge of the operation. "It's a matter of extreme concentration, even after driving many convoys," he says, walkie-talkie in hand. "But it's fun, too," he adds. Then it's time to move on. The last stretch of the journey is still before them.
The Airbus convoy glides alike a gentle giant past dark fields where, during the day, cows graze and combine harvesters are hard at work. It continues on past Mondonville, reaching the final assembly hangars in Toulouse at one o'clock in the morning. This area of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport is brightly illuminated, and security vehicles are on patrol. It takes the convoy three nights to travel the 250 kilometers from Langon, going at a snail's pace of no more than 30 kilometers an hour.
It's five hours until sunrise but there's no time for a break. Hydraulic pumps on the flatbed trailers start to hum. Bolts and casings are loosened and the vertical tail unit is carefully lowered once again. Over the next two days the newly arrived sections of the Airbus A380 will be hauled into the hangar for final assembly. Who needs sleep when you're putting together the world's largest plane?


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NO QUESTION ABOUT IT, wireless technology has changed all of our lives. No longer are we tethered to telephones attached to walls or boxes. We can talk on the phone just about anywhere, and do it hands-free. Wireless GPS devices mean that no one ever has to get lost again. And thanks to wi-fi, you don't have to sit at a desk to use a computer anymore. Anyplace with a 'hotspot' allows your notebook or tablet to become your portable office.
This same revolution has hit the green industry. Now, a contractor can monitor an irrigation system, and even change its settings from his smartphone. The smartphone 'talks' to the smart controller, which in turn 'talks' to onsite soil moisture, flow, rain and wind sensors, all without a wire in sight.
So, in what ways can this wireless technology change the way you do your irrigation work?
The first way is that you no longer have to do as much driving to get the job done. Smart controllers with web access allow a maintenance manager to see what's happening on a site without having to physically go there. He can get reports, change settings and check the onsite weather on his laptop or smartphone.
Say, for instance, that there's a broken pipe on a large commercial site 20 miles away. That broken pipe is spewing hundreds of gallons of water every hour. Previously, he wouldn't have known about the pipe break until after it created a swamp (and caused the owner's water bill to skyrocket).
Now, the flow sensor on the pipe "tells" the smart controller about the break. The smart controller then sends the manager an email alert, which he receives on his smartphone, even if he is on another call. Using that same smartphone, he can shut down that section of the system and send a crew out to fix it. No swamps, sinkholes or skyrocketing water bills, all thanks to wireless technology.
Wireless monitoring capability also means that you no longer have to send a crew member to a site to physically change settings. The savings in time, fuel and vehicle wear-and-tear really add up after awhile.
Sophisticated central control systems even allow you to monitor multiple sites from a remote location on a PC, tablet or smartphone.
"The innovation and continued evolution of wireless technology in the irrigation industry allows remote access for the management and measurement of irrigation systems from anywhere, anytime, contributing to time savings, labor savings, and reduced truck rolls," said Pat McIntyre, CEO of ETwater in Novato, California. "It also enables capabilities that were never before possible. Wireless technology also allows us to better serve our customers while helping them conserve water."
There are many good reasons why a contractor should familiarize himself with wireless irrigation products. Doing retrofits is one reason. "renovations are where the money is," says Chris Husband, an irrigation contractor, water manager/consultant and coowner of Liquid Technologies, LLC, in Glendale, Arizona. "And a lot of these jobs are in older communities." In those kinds of settings, you're more likely to find the sort of hardscape obstacles that weren't there when the original irrigation system was put in. That's where wireless comes to the rescue.
"Anybody installing wireless technology is doing it to solve a problem that they have," said John Wascher, controllers product manager at Hunter Industries in San Marcos, California. "If they have access to electricity, they don't have a problem." Wireless works where wires can't or won't go, at least not easily.
Let's take a closer look at some of the advantages of wireless technology for the irrigation contractor.
It can go anywhere
The first and most obvious benefit of wireless components is that they can be installed in situations where wired would be a major hassle to put in. This is particularly true in the case of retrofitting an existing built space.
Brian Mueller is a marketing and new product development executive in the accessories division for the Azusa, California-based rain Bird Corporation. He cites just such an example, where a contractor has to add zones to an already-established property. "Let's say there are brick pavers, some landscape timbers and maybe an outdoor kitchen in the way. running a wire from the inside of the house or the side of the house through all those obstacles would be costly. You'd either have to bore under that with a special type of tool, or run the wire around them."
Boring into concrete is never easy.
Crack it, and you're on the hook to fix it. In some situations, you're not al lowed to do any kind of drilling. Adds Wascher, "On an historical property, that's not even an option."
"What you find when you're doing renovations is that twenty years ago, some wires were cut," says Husband. "Or, you find that you just can't put new wires in, because you'd have to go across streets or people's driveways, situations where it just isn't cost-effective to run new wires. In those cases, we add smart controllers and wireless valves and flow sensors, so we don't have the extra cost of bringing wires back to the controller. We can get a community, a park, or a right-of-way— everything online off of one controller."
How they work
Wireless signals travel by three different means; cellular, using the same bandwidth as our phones; a 900 MHz radio "mesh net;" or wi-fi. Since cellular units use the same networks as phones, there's an added cost factor. Manufacturers of wireless irrigation products are figuring out ways to get around this, however.
"One of the biggest things we're seeing now is the ability to create a wireless broadband network so that each controller doesn't have to have its own cellular connection," said Larry Sarver, president of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based Tucor, Inc. "Instead, you have one cellular connection and share that with multiple controllers." Otherwise, you'd have to have a separate cellular connection and a separate airtime card for every single controller.
"It may be okay to put in five or ten cellular connections on a property, but when you start talking fifty, they (the property owners) get pretty antsy about all that airtime," says Sarver.
Another way is to put in a hardwired connection to the Internet and from there, send the signal out wirelessly to all the controllers. This is accomplished via the 900 MHz band. "What is unique about it is that it's a "mesh" network," says Sarver. "What that means is, every controller you install 'finds' the other controllers," he explains. "The more controllers you put in, the bigger the mesh. Because they all communicate with each other, it makes for a very strong network."
No power outlet
Some locations have plenty of water, but no power. Once again, wireless technology is the solution to the problem. To paraphrase Star Trek, wireless allows valves to go "where no valve has gone before."
Here's how it works. One wireless valve controller can operate up to four valves, connected to each one by a separate wire. The controller, a small, time-based unit, can be either inside a valve box or placed in the ground. "Our controller unit looks a little like a hockey puck with an antenna on it," says Wascher. "Inside, it's got some computer circuitry. With a handheld remote, a contractor can push a schedule out to it. Once it gets that signal, it's off and running." What is the controller's power source? That extremely exotic, hard-to-find item, the nine-volt alkaline battery.
Each valve is attached to a solenoid that opens or closes it. All it takes is a tiny electrical pulse from the nine-volt battery to tell it to open or close. The power drain is so low that one battery can power up to fifty valves for a year, according to Wascher. A one-controller/one-valve pair could conceivably run for two years without needing a battery swap. (Typically, batteries are changed once a year.)
Wireless valve controls have improved significantly over the last few years in which they've been available. "They're much more user-friendly and reliable than they used to be," said Donavin Baumgartner, division manager at Vanderwist of Northeast Ohio in Chagrin Falls. He notes that many wireless valve control units now come with LCD display screens. However, "the only problem with battery-operated valves is that they tend to get forgotten about."
Fast installation
"Two of the big things that are a driver for wireless products are ease and speed of installation," said Mueller. "There's the old expression, 'time is money.' The quicker a contractor can put in a job, the quicker he can move on to the next. Where in the past, it might have taken him 30 to 45 minutes to install a wired rain sensor, today he can install a wireless rain sensor in about 10 to 15 minutes."
Wireless can also be faster to fix. "Typically, the most expensive item in any irrigation repair is a contractor's time, not the materials," says Baumgartner. He cites the example of walking a site and doing repairs. "Now, you can reset the program in your remote, fix a problem and then continue through the process, instead of walking back and forth to the controller every time you fix something."
"Having a simple remote for troubleshooting makes it a one-man job, instead of somebody having to stand by the controller with a walkie-talkie, with someone else out in the field," agrees Keith Shepersky, senior product marketing manager for controllers at Irritrol in riverside, California.
"Troubleshooting is easier because, again, if you have a wired product, you have to look for breaks or frays in the wire," said Mueller. "It takes time to locate that, and then to patch or splice a good line into it. With a wireless product, you don't have to worry about that."
Husband, however, thinks that "a wired system is much easier to troubleshoot. It either sends a pulse or it doesn't. radio waves, on the other hand, you can't really track."
They may be cheaper
Even though wireless components often cost more, there are times when using a wireless product ends up being the less expensive option, such as where you would have to run lots of extra wire. More wire means higher material costs.
As we said above, time is money.
Wireless takes less time to install. You don't have to dig ditches or bore though obstacles. This factor alone might offset the higher cost of the unit or units themselves.
Is there any down side to wireless? Interference is one, especially with a radio-based system. "I know of one installation that was next to a radio station's broadcasting tower," said Shepersky. "The client said, 'Hey, these things aren't communicating.' Then they found out when they drove onsite in their truck, that even the truck's AM radio could only get that station; it overpowered everything. Or, you might have a communications system that is already there onsite that uses the same frequency."
This can usually be overcome, however. Many units have the ability to 'frequency hop' up or down when the circuitry detects that it can't get through.
"When you have new construction, it's always going to be better to put wire in the ground," says Husband. "It's just more cost efficient."
Wascher agrees. "For a homeowner, it's more cost efficient to run the wires and dig the ditch."
Husband says that though wireless technology has come a long way, it's not "bulletproof." He cites the example of when the wi-fi box in your house goes bad, you have to hit the reset button, then wait. "The technology's good, but it's not perfect yet."
"There is a growing trend towards the use of wireless products," said Mueller. "All the big players have their own versions of wireless products. Plus, there's a lot of smaller niche companies that are getting into the irrigation industry by offering wireless products, such as wireless valve controllers. The mere fact that more manufacturers are getting into wireless indicates that contractors' faith in these products ability to perform well in the long term is increasing."
Mueller thinks that this has a lot to do with the technology becoming more robust, especially with regard to radio transmissions, and the component size shrinking, making the units aesthetically more appealing.
Wireless irrigation technology will continue to evolve. However, wireless systems aren't going to totally replace hardwired systems, at least not anytime soon. "They'll exist side-by-side for quite awhile," said Shepersky. In the meantime, learn all you can about this growing market segment, and stay wired in for further developments.


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Girish Juneja is the director of SOA products at Intel. Blake Dournaee is currently the product manager responsible for Intel SOA products. Joe Natoli is a platform architect in the Digital Health Group at Intel. Steve Birkel is the Chief Technical Architect for Intel's Information Technology. This article is based on material in the book Service Oriented Architecture Demystified, published by Intel Press. All rights reserved..
XML is a big idea. Web Services takes XML one step further. It uses the generalized portable nature of XML to achieve universally descriptive interfaces and message exchange patterns. SOA, following suit, takes Web Services one step farther and applies service orientation to web services in an attempt to shrink the gap between technology infrastructure and business agility. It is only natural to look at this progression and ask what could be next. Which future trends have the potential to affect SOA? Which trends will engender the next step? The purpose of this article is to survey some of the currently emerging technology trends that have the potential to affect SOA and shape its future. Trends can be characterized as very specific pieces of technology or more ephemeral ideas, memes or points of view. Both can be very powerful in shaping the future of SOA. While it is true that almost any technology trend can be tied back to SOA in some way, we limit this article to those future trends that have XML as an ingredient. The reason why comes from our assumptions about SOA; that is, we believe that SOA conceived without a specific reference to XML becomes too general. Some of the technology trends to be examined in this article include the SOA backlash, SOA and Web 2.0, and SO*, the future of SOA.
SOA Backlash: SOAP versus REST
The first trend we will look at might best be described as an anti-trend or opposing undercurrent within the SOA community. This undercurrent, called the SOAP versus REST debate runs opposed to a certain standards laden version of SOA, one that is perceived as cumbersome and weighty, rather than agile. This particular undercurrent looks at the WS-* family of specifications and SOAP-based interactions in particular in a negative light. That is, WS-* is seen as a hodgepodge of complex layered technologies with no historical evidence of practical use, rife with vendor positioning. As the number of competing (and completed) web services specifications continues to grow, tension rises in direct proportion to the increasing complexity. In response to this phenomenon, a new meme has emerged that labels the WS-* family of specifications with the term WS-Heavy to describe its ostensibly weighty character. Complexity alone, however, is not enough to dismiss a new technology if it provides real benefits to business. What is the nature of this debate? The next few sections provide a brief outline of REST when compared to the WS-* family of specifications and tries to present both sides of the debate on equal footing. In the end, we hope to convince you that a hybrid approach is really the answer, as these two technology stacks are not mutually exclusive.
Framing the Problem
REST stands for Representational State Transfer, which is an architectural style derived in a doctoral dissertation by Roy Fielding in 2000. The dissertation itself is not an indictment of SOAP nor is it a position piece on why REST is superior to SOAP. Instead, it derives a certain abstract architectural style, called REST, from the basic web architecture of hypermedia, or simply put the collection of web documents and the specific interactions that have evolved from the inception of the Web. Given such a terse description, REST appears to be a theoretical model rather than a business enabler. However, if we examine REST further and follow its thread, we can understand how this simple architectural style has evolved into a vehement, nearly religious battle between two world views. At the very least, the presence of the debate appears to be slowing the growth of SOAP-based SOA interactions.
Numerous resources on the Web provide information about REST and SOAP and at times it can be difficult to tease out the fundamental pieces of the debate itself. In this section we will begin with the familiar, namely the concept of big bus, little bus as well as the concept of heterogeneous architecture, which we will characterize as simply a set of enterprise software, systems, or servers all running different operating systems and protocols. For the purposes of this explanation we will begin by assuming a worse case scenario: an enterprise with both B2B (business-to-business) integration requirements and EAI (enterprise application integration) requirements. Further, even though we refer to big bus, little bus, we will assume here that there is really no bus connecting these disparate domains. Some descriptions of REST also call this scenario the unconstrained architecture, which means there are no constraints on how various pieces talk or interact with one another.
Figure 1 shows a representation of worst-case EAI and B2B integration problems. We are using a shape metaphor to denote disparate components, software, or servers. Basically, we assume that each component is different and requires custom work to make the pieces talk. If we assume a completely connected set of disparate components counting each edge twice we will approach an n2 type of integration problem. You should note that this applies both inside the enterprise (EAI) and across enterprises (B2B). The picture shown in Figure 1 is a bounded problem-it describes an enterprise or business specific way of looking at system integration on two axes-intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise. It is also bounded in another way-by the way the businesses currently operate; surely businesses innovate, but for application integration this is generally a fixed-cost problem that maintains current business relationships with some return on investment and cost-savings rather than an enabler of hyper- growth. These additional enterprise and business-centric assumptions will eventually make a difference later on.
We also note that there is a larger version of this same problem, but it is unbounded-the larger version of the problem is the Internet, but more specifically, the Web itself. If we were to draw a picture of this problem, we could imagine it as an interconnected set of disparate shapes with no necessary bounds. To be clear, however, this problem is considered somewhat solved; REST looks at the example of this successful solution (which evolved using HTTP) to derive architectural constraints on the nature of the solution. Put another way, REST is in part an architectural style derived from those elements that made the current Web successful. Before we get to specific examples, we have to first look at the underpinnings of the theory itself. To help counter charges of undue bias, we go straight to the horse's mouth and develop a summary of REST based on Fielding's original derivation. This being said, we will not expound his entire theory, just the essential pieces to give us a solid understanding.


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Gary Johnson for President
by Andrew Ferguson | Posted December 29, 2011
December 28 marked an important day in Libertarian Party history — the day that the party gained a presidential candidate, former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, capable of smashing its previous high in any presidential election, and perhaps even making the LP marginally relevant for once (or, at least, gaining the party's second-ever electoral vote). Johnson as standard bearer would be something of a perfect storm for the LP — which, though unavoidably also a tempest in a teapot, would nonetheless make a bigger splash than the Party has ever been capable of before.
Flash back to the last election cycle. No, go back two, to 2004, when the LP, still reeling from Harry Browne's machinations, nominated a complete unknown as its presidential candidate. The list of "missed opportunities by the Libertarian Party" is a long and tragicomic one, but surely the choice of Michael Badnarik must be at or near the top: in an election evenly split between the military-statist Bush and the eco-statist Gore, the LP could've had a healthy cut of the excluded middle — but Badnarik's was not the name to draw those voters.
In 2008, with that swing-and-a-miss behind them, the LP whiffed with the opposite approach, nominating a big name who was a, shall we say, imperfect fit with party ideals. I'm not one to deny the place of pragmatism in politics, but the man who authored the Defense of Marriage Amendment and fervently prosecuted the Drug War was a strange choice for the supposed party of freedom. No matter how hard he pushed his Road to Damascus narrative, a large chunk of the LP base (namely, donors and state and local party poobahs) was never going to buy into his campaign.
As a result, Bob Barr's failure was utterly predictable — the rift in the party in 2008 was clear for all to see — but more to the point, just as utterly inevitable. In Barack Obama, the Democrats found a candidate who could reach out to the same undecideds the LP tries to make its own — those looking to cast a vote in dissent, anything so long as it has nothing to do with the party in power. Empty as we now know (or always knew) his promises of "Hope" and "Change" to be, they were nonetheless effective in closing off any change the Libertarians had of playing a role in the last cycle.
All of which is to say, the LP screwed up by getting its candidates backward — if anything, the off-the-ranch Republican with name recognition would have fared much better in 2004, serving as an alternative to two unpalatable statists. Meanwhile, 2008 would have been the time to run an outsider, someone who could elucidate a libertarian point of view, in the rare moments he (or she — vide Mary Ruwart) was called upon to do so.
But in 2012, the LP has the opportunity to pitch a candidate to an electorate seemingly sick of the whole process. Obama's broken promises, aforementioned, have alienated a small but substantial portion of his base — those who cannot overlook our nation's ongoing, unnecessary, and inhumane foreign wars; the continued attacks on the constitutional rights of the citizenry; the all-enveloping secrecy in which the government carries on its affairs; the gulag archipelago we are building up in our modern prison system . . . in short, all those left-leaning pundits and bloggers not in step with the all-conquering Obama line foisted upon us hourly by the power-loving, bootlicking establishment media outlets.
Who will these people turn to? Certainly not the Republican Party, at least not once Ron Paul again is defeated by, or cedes way to, a far inferior challenger. Despite moments in the sun for the laughable Herman Cain and the odious Newt Gingrich (not to mention Rick Perry's campaign, brought to you by Tom of Finland), this nomination has from the first been Mitt Romney's to lose. Only trouble is, Romney and Obama are, as The Root recognized long ago, nearly the same person. And more recently, one of Romney's chief advisors was heard loudly rattling the saber for war with Iran — something that seems increasingly inevitable whichever party ends up with its finger on the button.
Hence, there is a chance that an experienced, eloquent Libertarian Party candidate — one capable of making, forcefully, the case against war, whether against other nations that pose no threat to us, or against those of our own citizens whose only crime is to ingest federally frowned-upon substances — could steal a sizable chunk of the vote, and not just from the college crowd (who, as we all know, don't vote — I should know: I am one still). And that's where Gary Johnson comes in. He's an experienced pol who has the benefit of gaining his experience in a somewhat out-of-the-way state, allowing him both to get away with more than he might elsewhere (witness the in-progress crucifixion of Chris Christie in New Jersey), and to get raves from both Right and Left at different times for his handling of budgets and various other crises.
Additionally, Johnson has a legitimate beef with the presidential process, which effectively killed his campaign before it had hardly started by the simple expedient of refusing to let him speak alongside other candidates. By switching over to the LP, Johnson can present himself as a true outsider, one unbeholden to the major-party machines and their media purse-chihuahuas. His strongest issue, the legalization of marijuana (and decriminalization of other presently illegal drugs), will find supporters all along the political spectrum, especially those who for some reason expected Obama to live up to promises to back off medical dispensaries, rather than double down on the persecution. And he is glib enough (and has the voting record, besides) to avoid the typical traps laid down for third-party candidates: disaster management, education and child safety, national security. Likewise, he lacks the baggage some others do — most particularly, he has no history of orgazinational racism or anti-gay bias in his past. And — though this ought to be by far the least important thing about him — at 58 and in good shape, he remains telegenic and does not come off as a coot or a crank.
To close, I note that this is not an endorsement, either for Liberty or for myself, personally. It is, instead, a recommendation. If the Libertarian Party wishes to be relevant in this cycle, then it should gather round Johnson early on, kick the fundraising into gear, and come May's national convention, launch his candidacy with as much money and PR as can be mustered. If, instead, the LP's members wish to continue as they always have, then they should quibble and cavil and play up faults in Johnson's record, and ensure that he is hobbled heading into the general election.
The choice is there, and with it a rare opportunity. But with things finally breaking the LP's way, what remains to be seen is whether the party is capable of taking advantage.
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What is all this talk of relevence? The LP is never going to be relevent to Republicans or Democrats.
Even Paul, who is hardly a libetarian, will receive less than 5% of the votes of Republican and Democratic voters.
The goal of the LP should be to get the votes of the 50+% that do not vote. They need to think about why they don't vote, what would motivate them to vote, etc. Conversions from true believers are very difficult. But, fortunately, the majority of americans could care less about the Democrats or Republicans.
This process has nothing to do with presidental campaigns. This process begins at the coutny level. Nothing will happen for the LP until it can convince that majority to go out and vote.
Tue, 2012-01-03 12:09
No one know what the future will be, but in all likelihood, I can say that I wish it weren't true but Paul is not going to win. The game is rigged. The best possible scenario that I can see is that Paul seeing that he is not going to win goes on television and tells all of his followers that he is leaving the race and to please vote for Gary Johnson as the Libertarian Party candidate. That would give the LP a huge shot in the arm and the LP could come in a strong third place. Johnson needs to get his people in touch with Pauls people and let them know just how close they are in their beliefs and that he would welcome Pauls endorsement is Paul doesn't get the nomination.
Mon, 2012-01-02 15:55
Rodney Choate
Everyone here is right, and everyone is wrong.
Regarding the election of president, the system is rigged against alternative candidates. The primary mechanism for the rigging is the requirement that the electors be chosen on a single, specified day- thus forcing plurality elections in each state, with the consequent spoiler problem. This is an evil and dangerous way to elect people. The proper election system is to have one public primary and one public runoff, state by state. Then, in the electoral college, the win could be by plurality (this last condition would not be absolutely necessary and would, of course, require amending the Constitution).
And it is THIS state of affairs, in the presidential election, that shapes party successes for the rest of the country, at all levels of government!!
In my opinion, until this problem would be fixed our discussions will pretty much lead nowhere.
Sat, 2011-12-31 23:09
Scott Jensen
If Gary Johnson wants to advance libertarianism, the WORST thing he could do is run on the LP ticket as its presidential candidate. The BEST thing he could do is run for the US Senate seat currently held by the retiring Democrat Jeff Bingaman in his home state of New Mexico (of which Gary is a former governor). By becoming a US Senator, Gary will position himself VERY nicely for 2016 or 2020 presidential races as a politician that has both chief executive experience (former Governor of New Mexico) and federal political experience (US Senator). And just Gary being in the US Senate will be a HUGE victory for libertarianism. The more libertarian voices in the US Congress, the better!
Sat, 2011-12-31 17:20
Jon Harrison
There is no such thing as an important day in Libertarian Party history. The LP is an irrelevancy. If Ron Paul were its 2012 candidate, then the LP could make history -- by guaranteeing Obama's reelection. Paul would get enough votes to give Barack a second term. Gary Johnson won't.
The LP should transform itself into a lobbying organization that pushes an agenda in Washington D.C. and in state houses from coast to coast. It could actually have an impact on issues like spending and taxes, drug legalization, and even (perhaps) reigning in the National Security State. But that of course would require real commitment and work. The LP, a refuge for losers and cranks, would rather play at politics than try to achieve something in the real world.
Fri, 2011-12-30 10:28
Mark Ian Uzick
"Paul would get enough votes to give Barack a second term. Gary Johnson won't."
If the Republicans look like an odds on bet to win the senate, the potential for evil that a "progressive" Republican in the White House allows would be far greater than a second term for Obama; an Obama administration with Republicans controlling both houses would probably have much in common with Clinton's second term.
Under that circumstance, it would do more good to vote directly for Obama than to waste it on a third party Libertarian.
If it looks like the democrats can hold the senate, then any kind of Republican president would be preferable to maintaining the current situation.
I think that Paul understands this and that Johnson is just bitter about the way he's been treated.
Mon, 2012-01-02 01:11
Russell Hasan
I respectfully disagree with Mr. Harrison. I am myself a loyal member of the Republican Party, but I think that the nomination of a candidate who is more likely to be taken seriously than the typical Libertarian Party candidate is not without significance. It seems to me that for those of us who want to create a more perfect American society there are really three options: 1. give up and become pessimists, 2. take over the Republican Party and wrest control away from the conservatives, or 3. abandon the Republican Party and try to get the Libertarian Party to actually try to win elections instead of preaching holier-than-thou fringe impractical idealism. I have high hopes for choice 2 (the GOP), but if Ron Paul does not win the nomination then choice 3 (the LP) is the best from among the remaining possibilities. Choice 1 (hopeless do-nothing pessimism), unfortunately, is what most libertarians will end up with. Also the public is a fickle and unpredictable creature and stranger things than the Libertarian candidate winning the White House have happened. But even though the LP is, at least for now, a joke, they do perform a valuable role by exposing the public to libertarian ideology and "making a statement." Having a viable candidate will help them to accomplish that purpose.
Sat, 2011-12-31 21:02
Jim Henshaw
re this: "Also the public is a fickle and unpredictable creature and stranger things than the Libertarian candidate winning the White House have happened."
Something stranger has happened in politics than a presidential candidate from an established political party going from 1% of the vote to 40% or so of the vote in a single election cycle?
Can you give me an example?
Much as I would like Gary Johnson to become the first LP president, I give it a 0.0% probability. If he can break into the high single digits, that would be considered a huge victory for the LP -- people would start taking us seriously.
For that matter, I would say it is far from a slam-dunk that Johnson will win the LP nomination -- about half the people who showed up at the last convention were more or less purists who voted for Ruwart, and who will be considering voting for her SO, Lee Wrights.
Mon, 2012-01-02 16:37
Russell Hasan
I think that Mr. Henshaw's probability math is slightly incorrect. Perhaps the Libertarian Party has a 0.00001% chance of winning the White House, but absolute zero is difficult to achieve in a political election where (to the best of my knowledge) the vote is not actually rigged, although the structure is designed to favor a two party system. I think that the American Revolution's rebels defeating the British Empire was about a likely as the LP quickly getting its act together and competing, and then there is the famous "Dewey Defeats Truman." My point was not that the LP is likely to win but that, to paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, you can rule out the impossible but not the improbable.
Aside from that, if the LP ends up not nominating Johnson then I think they will have truly destroyed any hope of the LP ever achieving relevance, however small that chance was to begin with. But of course my belief that libertarians should actually win elections is what drew me to the GOP.
Mon, 2012-01-02 22:59
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Summer is almost over, and the kids are heading back to school. Now is a good time to help your clients better focus their attention on your offer to provide investment advice for their company retirement plan account.
In my 14 years of developing existing clients into company retirement plan advice clients, I have consistently run into four main retirement plan participant concerns.
This list of concerns is battle-tested with prospects, too. I have made thousands of telephone prospecting calls to plan participants that are now individual company retirement plan advice clients. The key to that transformation is in learning how to respond to these four main concerns.
1. Company retirement plan participants have no access to independent analytical tools that help them identify stock market risk. These investors don't know the major trend in the stock markets at the time they are fully invested in stock-market mutual funds.
Even when the stock market is rising, most plan participants allocate the majority of their company retirement plan account to mutual funds in asset classes that are lagging the overall stock-market benchmarks. They mistakenly diversify themselves out of a great deal of stock-market investment return.
The confidence to fully invest, or to preserve principal, at key stock-market inflection points is the most important investment management strategy missing for such investors.
2. Individual company retirement plan participants have no logical, organized and disciplined investment management strategy to preserve their account principal.
As U.S. economic and stock market conditions change, the majority of company plan participants remain 100% invested at all times. Family, work and personal obligations take attention away from their investment management duties.
An advisor who expands an existing investment-advice relationship to include advice on the individual's company retirement account is in a much better position to focus the client's attention the handful of times each year that require risk-level decisions.
3. The vast majority of company retirement plan investors have no existing fiduciary relationship with an independent investment advisor.
Company retirement plan propaganda and online tools are no match for in-person advice from an investment advisor. Strong existing relationships will beat e-mail newsletters and colorful Internet pie charts every time.
Watch your existing clients' eyes light up when you tell them that you can help improve the investment management decisions in their company retirement plan account. When you tell your clients that you are willing to take a fiduciary responsibility for the investment results in that account, your client relationship rises to a completely new level.
Don't forget about your client's working spouse. Many times I have more than doubled my household assets under management by asking for a copy of a company retirement plan account statement from the spouse of an existing client.
4. Be prepared to explain to an existing client the options for the payment of your fees should you advise on their company account. Most company retirement plan providers prohibit paying investment advisory fees to third-party advisor directly from the plan account.
If there is an SDBA (self-directed brokerage account) option in the company retirement plan menu, you may be able to get your advisory fees paid from this self-directed account money-market fund.
Sometimes a better option is to for the client to pay their company retirement plan advisory fees with after-tax dollars. Investment management fees fall under IRS section 212, which makes those fees a tax deduction on Form 1040 and allows them to be included on schedule A.
Annual investment advisory fees for many of my existing company retirement plan advice clients have helped push their annual miscellaneous deductions above the threshold of 2% of adjusted gross income—thus making my company retirement plan advice fees tax deductible.
I am not a tax advisor, but I have plenty of CPA clients who have provided me with enough of an education on the after-tax fee option to make it part of my client and prospect company retirement-plan advice presentation.
When you learn how to deal with the four biggest company retirement-plan advice concerns that participants have, there will be no stopping the growth of that niche of your investment advisory business.
Ric Lager is founder of Lager & Company Inc, co-creator of the "No More Pies" investment series for financial advisors and author of "Forget the Pie: Recipe for a Healthier 401(k)."


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We try always to keep up with every trend and hype, so you will be updated and know how to dress the next season. We'll guide you to what colors, fit and type of suit to choose.


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Monday, March 30, 2009
You mean it's Monday again?!?!?!
I don't have anything to show you today so I'll leave you with a picture of my big fat happy cat and his amazing long white whiskers.
Take care!
12 comments:
- Cathi said...
What an amazingly adorable kitty!!
And don't get discouraged -- losing weight is tough work!!
- Mon Mar 30, 10:51:00 PM 2009
- Janine said...
Hi there.
I feel with you.
I am on a diet myself.
And I am starting to hate it as well.
Be strong.
Kind regards
- Tue Mar 31, 12:25:00 AM 2009
- Unknown said...
Lettie, Have no fear you will get back in the saddle and it will come off.
- Tue Mar 31, 02:47:00 AM 2009
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, I am sure you will get your diet back on track in no time and lose that pound. Don't give up.
Take care.
- Tue Mar 31, 04:24:00 AM 2009
- Kath said...
Life must be good as a contented big, fat cat! What a gorgeous boy. Kath in England
- Tue Mar 31, 06:47:00 AM 2009
- Clare said...
Onward and upward - great attitude! I have been going through sort of the same thing - the progress I make seems to be so slow. I blew it this past weekend and was feeling very discouraged until I decided to just put it behind me and start again.
Love your big, fat, happy cat.
- Tue Mar 31, 07:30:00 AM 2009
- Carrie P. said...
Don't get disgusted, just take it one day at a time. I know it is hard but you can do it.
- Tue Mar 31, 09:43:00 AM 2009
- Amy said...
Hi Lettie..I struggle with the weight, too. Don't be hard on yourself...you'll get back on track. When I get home, I'm making some of those cute push pins : )
- Tue Mar 31, 02:35:00 PM 2009
- Sandra :) said...
Don't worry about the pound - even when you're on a diet you still have to get through life, and sometimes - we eat things we shouldn't! Just get back on track and don't let a minor setback throw you off!
Mr. Mouse is looking very well and very handsome - I'm so glad he's better :) Z blogged him a message a few days ago - I think the pair of them are up to something!!!
- Tue Mar 31, 06:36:00 PM 2009
- Rumi said...
Hang in there! Losing weight is not easy (if it was, we would all be supermodels!) Sometimes we need to take a deep breath and praise ourselves on how far we have come on our weight loss journey. Don't let the little bumps in the road deter you!
- Wed Apr 01, 02:06:00 PM 2009
- Suze said...
Don't get discouraged, hang in there.
- Thu Apr 02, 11:34:00 PM 2009
- Lorraine said...
I think we sometimes need to take a step back before we go forward. It makes us so much more determined. Hang in there!
- Sat Apr 04, 07:04:00 AM 2009


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Got Milkshakes?
Apr 11, 2005
Hardee's(R) New Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes & Malts(TM) Are Perfect Complement to Chain's Thickburgers(TM)
ST. LOUIS, April 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The best place to go for a great burger is now also the best place to go for a great milkshake or malt. Hardee's restaurants is introducing new Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes & Malts(TM), made with real ice cream, real milk, and blended to order.
"The quality and taste of our new ice cream milkshakes and malts are head and shoulders above anything being served by any major fast-food chain today," said Brad Haley, executive vice president of marketing for Hardee's. "In fact, most fast-food chains stopped making real milkshakes many years ago in favor of faster and cheaper shakes that are machine-made using a liquid shake mix -- and most of those can't even legally be referred to as ice cream."
"Now Hardee's has brought back the great taste of classic diner milkshakes and malts. Each shake is made with real ice cream that is hand-scooped and individually blended with milk and a choice of chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, or peach syrup, just the way they were made in the 'old days.' We'll even mix in real malted milk powder for those guests who want to go super retro and order a malt."
The suggested retail price for Hardee's Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes & Malts is $2.49, although prices may vary at franchised locations. The milkshakes and malts are served in clear plastic 16-oz. cups with clear plastic domed lids filled with whipped topping. The chain plans to offer vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavors, along with a fourth seasonal flavor, which is currently peach.
"One of our chief goals with the introduction of our line of Angus beef Thickburgers almost two years ago was to deliver the quality of sit-down restaurant burgers at a fast-food place," added Haley. "Now, we've done the same thing with our Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes & Malts. Together with one of our Thickburgers, they make a perfect combination."
Hand-Scooped Ice Cream Shakes & Malts are available in most Hardee's restaurants starting today. The remainder of the chain's restaurants will complete the roll-out by mid-summer.
Hardee's Food Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CKE Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: CKR) of Carpinteria, Calif. As of the end of the third quarter on November 1, 2004, CKE Restaurants, Inc., through its subsidiaries, had a total of 3,183 franchised or company-owned restaurants in 44 states and in 13 countries, including 1,017 Carl's Jr.(R) restaurants, 2,047 Hardee's(R) restaurants and 101 La Salsa Fresh Mexican Grill(R) restaurants. For more information, or to find a Hardee's near you, go to www.ckr.com or www.hardees.com.
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As the statewide smoking ban looms, questions remain about how to enforce the Smoke Free Illinois Act. "Everybody is waiting on the state," said Creve Coeur Police Chief Mike Button. "Nobody bothered to tell us how to handle the tickets."
The statewide smoking ban that takes effect Jan. 1 appears to be just as cloudy as the smoke itself, especially for smaller towns in the Tri-County Area.
Although Gov. Rod Blagojevich stamped his approval on the law in July, a rules committee set to iron out the intricacies of the ban isn't set to meet until Jan. 9.
Local police and government officials understand what violates the Smoke Free Illinois Act. They just have no clue how to enforce it.
"Everybody is waiting on the state," said Creve Coeur Police Chief Mike Button. "Nobody bothered to tell us how to handle the tickets."
The law did outline, however, lines smokers cannot infringe upon. Lighting up in the workplace and other indoor public places is restricted. Also, patrons must take their cigarettes at least 15 feet away from any entrance, exit, open windows and ventilators.
With many restrictions on a now-common ritual, there is a greater need for police patrol. But that police patrol can't always be provided, especially by the smaller towns.
Roger Woodcock, the city administrator for the roughly 2,500 residents of Farmington, said: "I don't think we're going to be paying a police officer to go to an establishment looking for violations."
The small town has only five full-time and three part-time officers, Woodcock pointed out.
Button also expressed concern over manpower. He has seven full-time and three part-time officers, however, none went into law enforcement to see who's smoking and who isn't, the police chief notes.
"We aren't the cigarette police," Button said. "Although we are now according to the Illinois (General Assembly)."
Metamora police Chief Mike Todd has yet to even scrape the convoluted surface of enforcing the ban. He said his department would just play "follow the leader."
They just have to find out who the leader is.
"I really haven't given it a whole lot of thought as of yet," Todd said. "I've been sending e-mails to other departments to see how they're going about it."
Even once smaller departments do find a path to follow, there will undoubtedly be wrinkles. Woodcock says it's that way with any new legislation, especially any that affects a great number of people.
"There's a lot of uncertainty," Woodcock said. "It'll be trial and error, at least at the onset."
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Jacob Burckhardt
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Jacob Burckhardt has worked at a variety of day jobs - blueberry picker, steel mill laborer, fuller brush man, truck driver, taxi driver, camera repairman, art photographer - all the while making underground films. He specializes in sound production and has done sound recording and mixing for projects ranging from an Italian Rai-tv feature production in North Africa to the American porn industry.
Burckhardt directed and produced two features which screened at various international festivals and were distributed on video: It Don't Pay To Be An Honest Citizen (1984) with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Vincent D'Onofrio, and Landlord Blues (1986).
In 1990 Burckhardt, Royston Scott and Ms. Mahogany Plywood made The Frankie Lymons Nephew Story. In 2002 they continued their collaboration with Freedom Ho, Or Harriet Tubman's Tale (2002). Louis The Fourteenth Street (2004) is the latest installment in the continuing series, "Black Moments in Great History." Two more productions are in the works.
Burckhardt continues the 16mm film work he began early in his career. He has made a series of poetic and contemplative black and white shorts, the latest of which is ROMA, showing the modern city from a pedestrian's point of view, featuring the ancient stones, water, graffiti, lights, cats and even the Pope.
Burckhardt became curious about sound and sound tracks many years ago, after discovering his first 78 record, along with a windup player, in a pile of rubbish in a Maine barn. Since the early '80s Burckhardt has been mixing and editing sound professionally, moving from analog to digital sound in 1995. He also designs environmental sound tracks for other artists' dance and performance works, and more recently, the web.
Burckhardt prefers film and video shorts, in which the direct relationship between film and filmmaker is preserved. He also works in still photography and recently exhibited his black and white gelatin silver prints at Millennium Film Workshop.


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We want an attention-grabbing flyer that introduces the Ready-made logo store.
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Then a blurb saying:
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Getting a professional logo is now as easy as 1-2-3:
1) Choose a logo you like
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• Search by industry or specific attributes like color and style to find the perfect logo design for your needs
2) We customize the logo with your business name
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Maybe include a screenshot of some of the logos – or the front page of the storefront? http://99designs.com/readymade/logos
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Especially during the few remaining days before Christmas.
That's because we go to a mall, and the very first questions we ask ourselves is:
What the heck am I doing here?
No plan. No strategy. No tactics upon which to rely.
In short: lambs being
Instead, we wander.
In search of the perfect gift that we haven't thought about.
We walk by foreign lands with names like "Ann Taylor" or "J. Crew."
Oh, we've heard of Tiffany's, but guys know better than to get sucked in there, lest we lose our shirts: Tiffany's is only approachable the day before Christmas if you're really desperate.
We try to look like we have a clue, browsing and all. A helpful sales person comes up and asks, "May I help you?" and we politely state: "No thanks, just looking."
That's because guys never ask for directions: it's a sign of weakness.
So we continue, roaming. Lost. Looking at all the people who seem to have a much better plan than we do, carrying those big bags and all.
But there, like an oasis amongst the desert of untouchables, is the Apple Store. Simple. White. Comprehensible to men. Teaming with people, all looking at little expensive electronic gizmo's like Romans amongst aphrodisiacs. Transfixed. Mesmerized. Stupefied. Like moths to a flame, they come. Drawn. And next to them stand a bunch of black-shirted skinny twenty-somethings with black-rimmed glasses wearing electronic money-suckers on their belts demonstrating the gadgets. The lowly gents mouths hand open. Small amounts of drool appear. Dripping.
Then the phone rings and terror strikes:
"Honey, are you just about done shopping? We've got a party in 30 minutes."
"Uh, just about, honey. Be there soon."
And to their terror, they realize they have to come back…
… to shop again.


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Warren wrote:I came in to work today, which will be relaxing considering what my weekend consisted of. Yay, office job!
Laemkral wrote:I have the very beginning of Doctor Who on DVD. Not the Ninth Doctor beginning, the FIRST Doctor beginning!! Yes, William Hartnell and the first three serials: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, and The Edge of Destruction.
And it was only $20.
shuckingoysters wrote:After running myself ragged for weeks, managed to find time to sit down and just play Civ V for a few hours. Good stuff.
shuckingoysters wrote:the AI civs were all going out of their way not to piss me off. Kinda funny to watch.
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