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The Hope College Concert Series will feature Cloud Nothings on Friday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. at the Park Theater inHolland.
Cloud Nothings' most recent album, "Attack On Memory" received "Best New Music" on Pitchfork upon its release, and both "Rolling Stone Magazine" and Stereogum placed the album on "Best of 2012" lists.
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Hey, why not release "Smile" as a single? Eh?
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Hey, why not tour the United States of America?
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And also please tour Australia (especially Melbourne!)
After Japan and Korea would be ideal!
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Add scatting to the damn songs!
Add more sax and bass!
Get Toby to write songs again and kick Rob out of that job!
Reconnect with Zender!
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Rafriel Guthrie came off the bench to score a career-high 23 points and Towson topped Georgia State 90-82 in overtime Saturday.
The Tigers (14-12, 9-4 Colonial Athletic Association) had four starters in double figures. But Towson's defense against Georgia State's R.J. Hunter was key.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles- Spectacular Start
This is some good TV. I don't have anything bad to say about the pilot. It was action packed. Summer Glau is a terminator! That's the best thing since... I don't know what but I'm pretty damned stoked about it. I suppose I should feel ashamed for liking all of the explosions and fight scenes but dammit let me have this.
We start out with a dream sequence where Sarah goes to John's school in a tinee, tiny waitress uniform. That skirt was so short that I could tell she had ham and cheese for lunch. John is shot and killed, the terminator nukes the place and then she woke up.
Tim Guinee is back as Burke. He's the guy that looks like Nathan Fillion but isn't and works when you can't afford Nathon Fillion. He is in love with Sarah. First Vala Mal Doran (Claudia Black) and now Sarah Connor. This guy sure does pick 'em crazy. Sarah woke up that morning from her dream and decided to leave this guy. He goes to the police and this is how the terminator finds John Connor.
I love how the FBI agent questioning Burke and following Sarah calls her a whackamole for believing that robots are after her and her boy. After nineteen students confirmed seeing a man with a robot leg, that FBI agent had his government panties in a bunch.
I'm getting ahead of myself. Summer Glau as Cameron Phillips befriends John. John is complaining about the town and how uncool it is. This boy wants to be in a town that serves WHINE and cheese. He reminds me of Luke Skywalker. Anyhoo, John gets a substitute teacher that is a terminator, Cameron saves his life and they are a merry band of three on the run.
I'm fond of the terminators on this show. I think they have the right amount of cheesy robotness. The main one looks like a cross between Robert Patrick and one of the DeLuise Brothers.
If there is a Terminator encyclopedia, it seems like the writers read it. It is my goal in life to wake up naked on a highway. I also love how John wasn't creeped out by seeing his mother naked... and he might have had his little boy parts too close to her in that scene. I'm sure I'm the only twisted person that noticed that. *shudders*
Initial Verdict: I am amused. The cast is allowed to live.
Episode 2:
In this episode, we get the new official opening theme with narration.
Sarah is moping around and John has emo hair.
Cameron tells Sarah that future John sent back resistance fighters to fight in 2007. For whatever reason Sarah flips out at this news. When they seek them out, they are all dead. A terminator is lying there with the dead fighters playing possum and of course starts some trouble. I think Summer Glau is going to have a massive fight scene in every episode. She is like a new Buffy and that's a good thing. (Technically, she'd be a new Angel because she is a good robot killing bad robots but I digress.) In the middle of this street fight, Cameron gets hit by a car and her head goes through the windshield. The family inside is horrified. She does a robotic stare and says "Please remain calm." Hilarious!
In this time line, the terminators don't know what John looks like. This means that he can walk the streets freely. Later on, Cameron reveals that Sarah Connor died in 2005 of cancer.
John disobeys his mom and goes to the mall of all places. It's a Dell store. Nice product placement. This morron Google's himself and his search is broadcasted on the huge store demo screen. I'm sure this sent a red flag somewhere in the world. Some people.
Master Bra'tac is Sarah's old fake ID guy. He says he's out of "the game" and sends Sarah to his nephew. Out in the hood, nephew wants 20K for the ID's because Sarah has been dead for 8 years. He says the price went up because of 9/11. Sarah didn't know what that meant. (This is a nice touch because I wish we can all go back to not knowing what 9/11 is.) Five-oh shows up and ruins the party. The cop started giving Cameron a hard time and was about to run the plates on the stolen Jeep. As he was going back to his copmobile, Cameron was about to kill him but he was saved by Sarah. I thought for sure that the cop was going to get it. It was his lucky day and I really liked the build up to that. Plus the cop was cute. Hand cuff me baby, rawr!
John breaks into some guys house and he's married to Penny from Lost. It was weird and John ran off. Is this his father or what? I didn't really get it.
Cameron, John and Sarah go to the strong hold where the resistance fighters where. They are looking for a safe and money. The safe was rigged and knocked Cameron offline. John uses the doomsday date to open the safe and get the money before the terminator spots them. They take the money to the nephew and the nephew says something in Spanish about his uncle being a rat. Sarah went back to confront Master Bra'tac and asked him if he was an informant. He denies it but turns out he was going to sell her out to panties-in-a-bunch FBI guy.
This episode wasn't as ohh-ahh as the pilot but it held it's own and there were lots of reveals. The terminator can scan people for temperature and other vitals. She follows orders from future John only. Dogs bark at terminators. I still don't understand who EMS guy is so someone will have to explain that.
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- Gareth said...
The house that John breaks into is suppose to belong to his (almost) Step father from the first episode, just 8 years older, and I need to watch it again to see if it was actually a different actor to the one in the pilot. John also went to the computer shop to do research on his step dad too, hence why he went to that house.
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- JERRY said...
Dean Winters, the actor who plays the EMT played one of Dennis Leary's brothers on RESCUE ME - I believe he was killed off on there last season. Was the role recast from the original pilot?
- kevbayer said...
I read somewhere that the almost step dad ad a really good relationship with John (hence him letting John pick out the ring for Sarah). That's one of the reasons it was so hard for John to go along with Sarah this time in leaving him - and why he went back and Googled him in 2007 and the B&E'd his way into the home.
- JoshC said...
I was pleasantly surprised to see Bra'tac show up. Which is exactly the opposite from the way I feel when I see C. Thomas Howell show up.
Plus that Terminator is CUTE. She can target me for termination any day.
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- Joe said...
Does anyone else see a problem in the fact that they time-traveled in the pilot to a date PAST the timeframe of T3 when John and... why can't I remember her name but I can remember that they first kissed in Mike Kripke's basement?... basically got put to ground because they couldn't stop Skynet from going online and they had to survive?
- Joe said...
Whoops. Just re-watched the pilot and noticed the Terminatrix said Skynet went online in 2011. Doesn't matter, the timeline is still screwed up because he was older than 4-years older than this John Connor so this John Connor has to die, doesn't he? Or is there even a second John Connor currently running around kissing Katherine Brewster in Mike Kripke's basement while the Terminators go after this one? I so HATE time paradoxes.
- Michael Hickerson said...
Enjoyed the first two episodes, but the third one felt a bit disjointed.


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ROCKFORD — Ah, home.
Nearly half of the Rockford IceHogs are newcomers, and have heard tales about the BMO Harris Bank Center atmosphere, fan support, etc.
Tonight, they'll finally get to experience it all.
Fourteen days after opening the 2013-14 American Hockey League season, the 'Hogs are finally able to unpack those suitcases.
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The players are eager to clash with the Grand Rapids Griffins at 7 p.m. Saturday.
"It will be nice to get in our own building in front of our fans and see what it's like," said rookie winger Drew LeBlanc. "I have no idea what it's going to be like at all. It should be a good experience and fun."
Certainly, it will be different. The IceHogs had to play their first five games away, and seven out of eight total, because of renovations at BMO.
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"It's always fun to play in front of the crowd here," he said. "When you're home, you don't have to travel, so you're a little fresher maybe.
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The 'Hogs opened in Texas for two games, then spent back-to-back nights in Lake Erie. They were competitive in all but the second game against the Lake Erie Monsters.
Competitive, yes. But with flaws to fix.
After allowing 100 shots on goal the first weekend, the 'Hogs still ranked last in the American Hockey League entering the week allowing 39.5 shots on goal per game. Rockford played at Chicago on Friday night to conclude the opening road swing.
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Republican Jr Senator; previously Representative (OH-2)
A handful of Republican senators have this year called for legalizing same-sex marriage, including Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, who has a gay son. Proponents of the legislation will need to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to avoid a filibuster, meaning that at least five Republicans will have to vote for the legislation (assuming every Democrat and independent also votes for the bill).
(VIDEO) PORTMAN: I'm announcing today a change of heart on an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about that has to do with gay couples' opportunity to marry. I've come to the conclusion that for me, personally, I think this is something that we should allow people to do, to get married, and to have the joy and stability of marriage that I've had for over 26 years. That I want all of my children to have, including our son, who is gay.
Q: Is gay marriage a civil rights issue?
Gov. SCOTT WALKER: In our state, it was in the constitution years ago [protecting homosexual civil rights, but not gay marriage]. It rarely is an issue. I focus on the economic and fiscal crisis. People don't want to get focused on [gay marriage] issues.
That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.
Two years ago, my son Will, then a college freshman, told my wife and me that he is gay. He said he'd known for some time, and that his sexual orientation wasn't something he chose; it was simply a part of who he is. We were surprised to learn he is gay but knew he was still the same person he'd always been. The only difference was that now we had a more complete picture of the son we love.
I wrestled with how to reconcile my Christian faith with my desire for Will to have the same opportunities to pursue happiness and fulfillment as his brother and sister. Ultimately, it came down to the Bible's overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God.
Well-intentioned people can disagree on the question of marriage for gay couples, and maintaining religious freedom is as important as pursuing civil marriage rights. For example, I believe that no law should force religious institutions to perform weddings or recognize marriages they don't approve of.
Opponent's Argument for voting No (The Week; Huffington Post, and The Atlantic): House Republicans had objected to provisions in the Senate bill that extended VAWA's protections to lesbians, gays, immigrants, and Native Americans. For example, Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH) voted against the VAWA bill because it was a "politically–motivated, constitutionally-dubious Senate version bent on dividing women into categories by race, transgender politics and sexual preference." The objections can be grouped in two broadly ideological areas--that the law is an unnecessary overreach by the federal government, and that it represents a "feminist" attack on family values. The act's grants have encouraged states to implement "mandatory-arrest" policies, under which police responding to domestic-violence calls are required to make an arrest. These policies were intended to combat the too-common situation in which a victim is intimidated into recanting an abuse accusation. Critics also say VAWA has been subject to waste, fraud, and abuse because of insufficient oversight.
Supports granting Congress power to prohibit the physical desecration of the U.S. flag. Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States.
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Sec. Of State White To Announce Re-Election Bid
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is making it official. He plans to announce he is seeking a fifth term in office.
The Chicago Democrat is scheduled to announce his re-election bid Thursday morning at a downtown Chicago hotel. Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected to attend.
After the morning event, White is heading to Springfield for a similar announcement in the afternoon.
The 79-year-old has easily won his previous elections, meaning any Republican challenger would have a difficult time beating White. White served as a state representative for 16 years and as Cook County recorder of deeds.
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GospelofChrist Bringing the Good News
In the last days we have to be careful so that we don`t give heed to deceptive doctrines and movements sweeping all over the world, because hard times will come, and many will be deceived. Jesus Christ, the Son of God is the only one who can give you true repentance, forgiveness and power to overcome the world. John Wesley 2Pe 2:2 The way of truth will be evil spoken of - By those who blend all false and true Christians together.
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The J.C. Ryle Archive : Discerning the True and the False Christian
Luther on ecumenism and papacy
History of the Papacy by J.A. Wylie: "...the Church (so-called) of Rome has no right to rank amongst Christian Churches. She is not a Church, neither is her religion the Christian religion. We are accustomed to speak of Popery as a corrupt form of Christianity. We concede too much. The Church of Rome bears the same relation to the Church of Christ which the hierarchy of Baal bore to the institute of Moses; and Popery stands related to Christianity only in the same way in which Paganism stood related to primeval Revelation. Popery is not a corruption simply, but a transformation. It may be difficult to fix the time when it passed from the one into the other; but the change is incontestible. Popery is the gospel transubstantiated into the flesh and blood of Paganism, under a few of the accidents of Christianity."
Martin Luther
Just as in the days of the Apostles, so at this day we are forced to hear from certain denominations that we (by our obstinacy to adhere to the truth) do offend against love and unity in the churches, because we reject their doctrine. It would be better (they say) that we should let it pass, especially since the doctrine in dispute is what they call non-essential, and, therefore (they say) to stir up so great a discord and contention in the church over one or two doctrines (and those not the most important ones) is unfruitful and unnecessary.
To this I reply: Cursed be that love and unity which cannot be preserved except at the peril of the word of God.
Just as in the days of the Apostles, so at this day we are forced to hear from certain denominations that we (by our obstinacy to adhere to the truth) do offend against love and unity in the churches, because we reject their doctrine. It would be better (they say) that we should let it pass, especially since the doctrine in dispute is what they call non-essential, and, therefore (they say) to stir up so great a discord and contention in the church over one or two doctrines (and those not the most important ones) is unfruitful and unnecessary.
To this I reply: Cursed be that love and unity which cannot be preserved except at the peril of the word of God.
The negotiation about doctrinal agreement displeases me altogether, for this is utterly impossible unless the pope has his papacy abolished. Therefore avoid and flee those who seek the middle of the road. Think of me after I am dead and such middle-of-the-road men arise, for nothing good will come of it. There can be no compromise. (What Luther Says, II: 1019)
Ah, my dear brother in Christ, bear with me if here or elsewhere I use such coarse language when speaking of the wretched, confronted, atrocious monster at Rome! He who knows my thoughts must say that I am much, much, much too lenient and have neither words nor thought adequately to describe the shameful, abominable blasphemy to which he subjects the Word and name of Christ, our dear Lord and Savior. There are some Christians, wicked Christians indeed, who now would gloss things over to make the pope appear against in a good light and who, after he does so and has been dragged out of the mud, would like to reinstate him on the altar. But they are wicked people, whoever they may be, who defend the pope and want me to be quiet about the means whereby he has done harm. Truly, I cannot do this. All true, pious Christians, who love Christ and His Word, should, as said, be sincerely hostile to the pope. They should persecute him and injure him…. All should do this in their several calling, to the best of their ability, with all faithfulness and diligence. (What Luther Says, II: 1072)
What kind of a church is the pope's church? It is an uncertain, vacillating and tottering church. Indeed, it is a deceitful, lying church, doubting and unbelieving, without God's Word. For the pope with his wrong keys teaches his church to doubt and to be uncertain. If it is a vacillating church, then it is not the church of faith, for the latter is founded upon a rock, and the gates of hell cannot prevail against it (Matt.16:18). If it is not the church of faith, then it is not the Christian church, but it must be an unchristian, anti-Christian, and faithless church which destroys and ruins the real, holy, Christian church. (Luther's Works, vol. 40, Church and Ministry II, The Keys, p.348)
All this is to be noted carefully, so that we can treat with contempt the filthy, foolish twaddle that the popes present in their decrees about their Roman church, that is, about their devil's synagogue (Rev.2:9), which separates itself from common Christendom and the spiritual edifice built up on this stone, and instead invents for itself a fleshly worldly, worthless, lying, blasphemous, idolatrous authority over all of Christendom. One of these two things must be true: if the Roman church is not built on this rock along with the other churches, then it is the devil's church; but if it is built, along with all the other churches, on this rock, then it cannot be lord or head over the other churches. For Christ the cornerstone knows nothing of two unequal churches, but only of one church alone, just as the Children's Faith, that is, the faith of all of Christendom, says, "I believe in one holy, Christian church," and does not say, "I believe in one holy Roman church." The Roman church is and should be one portion or member of the holy Christian church, not the head, which befits solely Christ the cornerstone. If not, it is not a Christian but an UN-Christian and anti-Christian church, that is, a papal school of scoundrels. (Luther's Works, Volume 41, Church and Ministry III, Against The Roman Papacy, An Institution Of The Devil, p.311)
I believe the pope is the masked and incarnate devil because he is the Antichrist. As Christ is God incarnate, so the Antichrist is the devil incarnate. The words are really spoken of the pope when its said that hes a mixed god, an earthly god, that is , a god of the earth. Here god is understood as god of this world. Why does he call himself an earthly god, as if the one, almighty God werent also on the earth? The kingdom of the pope really signifies the terrible wrath of God, namely, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. (Luthers Works, vol.54, Table Talks, No.4487, p.346)
C. H. Spurgeon on Popery
"It is the bounden duty of every Christian to pray against Antichrist, and as to what Antichrist is no sane man ought to raise a question. If it be not the Popery in the Church of Rome there is nothing in the world that can be called by that name. It wounds Christ, robs Christ of His glory, puts sacramental efficacy in the place of His atonement, and lifts a piece of bread in the place of the Saviour....If we pray against it, because it is against Him, we shall love the persons though we hate their errors; we shall love their souls, though we loathe and detest their dogmas...."
-- C. H. Spurgeon
Frälsningens väg!
Heb 12:2 Och må vi därvid se på Jesus, trons hövding och fullkomnare, på honom, som i stället för att taga den glädje som låg framför honom, utstod korsets lidande och aktade smäleken för intet, och som nu sitter på högra sidan om Guds tron.
Heb 12:3 Ja, på honom, som har utstått så mycken gensägelse av syndare, på honom mån I tänka, så att I icke tröttnen och uppgivens i edra själar.
Heb 12:15 Och sen till, att ingen går miste om Guds nåd, och att ingen giftig rot skjuter skott och bliver till fördärv, så att menigheten därigenom bliver besmittad;
Heb 12:16 sen till, att ingen är en otuktig människa eller ohelig såsom Esau, han som för en enda maträtt sålde sin förstfödslorätt.
Heb 12:17 I veten ju att han ock sedermera blev avvisad, när han på grund av arvsrätt ville få välsignelsen; han kunde nämligen icke vinna någon ändring, fastän han med tårar sökte därefter.
Heb 10:36 I behöven nämligen ståndaktighet för att kunna göra Guds vilja och få vad utlovat är.
Heb 10:37 Ty "ännu en helt liten tid, så kommer den som skall komma, och han skall icke dröja;
Heb 10:38 och min rättfärdige skall leva av tro. Men om någon drager sig undan, så finner min själ icke behag i honom".
Heb 10:39 Dock, vi höra icke till dem som draga sig undan, sig själva till fördärv; vi höra till dem som tro och så vinna sina själar.
Ord 25:26 Såsom en grumlad källa och en fördärvad brunn, så är en rättfärdig som vacklar inför den ogudaktige.
Upp 3:16 Men nu, då du är ljum och varken varm eller kall, skall jag utspy dig ur min mun.
Se Ljum, sammanblandad, mixad, förväxlad, utbytt, utväxlad, ersatt, avlöst, efterträdd, liknöjd, likgiltig!
2Ti 4:7 Jag har kämpat den goda kampen, jag har fullbordat mitt lopp, jag har bevarat tron.
2Ti 4:8 Nu ligger rättfärdighetens segerkrans tillreds åt mig, och Herren, den rättfärdige domaren, skall giva den åt mig på "den dagen", och icke åt mig allenast, utan åt alla som hava älskat hans tillkommelse.


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Ghanaian Women Can Teach the Power of Saving
UNITED KINGDOM — International Women's Day gives us the opportunity to consider the many and varied roles that women play in their communities. Looking at women through the lens of the global financial services provider, we know that it is often women who are in charge of household finances, both in the UK and in the developing countries in which we operate.
Earlier this week the Banking on Change partnership between Barclays, and NGOs CARE International UK and Plan UK, published the findings of a survey to find out more about women's attitudes to saving in Ghana and in the UK.
Banking on Change, to which Barclays commitment is part of its citizenship agenda, aims to lift around 400,000 people out of poverty in 11 developing countries, including Ghana, by developing and extending access to basic financial services in the form of community-managed savings groups. Our experience has shown the vast majority of participants in these savings groups are women.
The results of the research showed that low-income women in Britain are nearly half as likely to save money as those living in Ghana. That's despite the latter living in a country where many live on less than $2 a day.
In Ghana, women have a strong entrepreneurial spirit. This means that despite lack of access to basic financial services, they still save. We also know from our work in developing countries that women are far more likely than men to reinvest the money they make into their families and communities.
Our study showed that 94% of women in Ghana save each month, compared to just 55% in Britain. In fact, only 27% of those questioned in the UK believe that saving is a priority.
On a recent trip to Ghana to visit some of these savings groups, I met a lady called Lydia, a 40-year-old mother who struggled to send her three kids to school.
She told me that her first loan was 20 Ghana Cedis (about £7, where the average monthly income for a women in Ghana is £601) which helped her start producing and selling quality shea butter extraction. She made a decent profit and ploughed it back into her business.
Her second loan was 30 Cedis which allowed her to take the butter extraction to another level by getting a few more people help sell her product in other local markets. She can now send her children to school.
I heard numerous similar stories which confirmed the views of 87% of the Ghanaian women we surveyed who, although poor, were nevertheless extremely optimistic and expected to earn more money in the future. Three-quarters of them also believe that they already have the skills to do so.
So what can we learn from this research? We need to ensure women in Ghana, in the UK and in every other community in which we operate, understand the importance of saving and its power to drastically change their circumstances. Saving a little and often can provide increased security and choice to women's lives whether they live in Ghana or the UK.
We have a lot to learn from the women in Ghana about the importance of saving and the difference it can make between living on the edge and being able to improve ones circumstances. As a global financial services provider Barclays can use its position to raise awareness of the financially excluded and to design and create the products that will extend financial inclusion to women both in the UK and elsewhere.
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Last month, we looked at all the issues surrounding secure login in an AJAX application. This month, will look at code: a generic login implementation that you can slot into your application with minimal work. The code is all JavaScript, with a small Java Servlet, so it will work in any generic AJAX app. (The implementation actually coexists with GWT just fine, but I'm not going to cover the GWT issues this month.)
The Login Object in Action
I'm an OO sort of guy, so the login system is very object oriented. Architecturally, login is done with a single object that serves as an intermediary between the user and the server. That object is defined in an HTML file called loginPanel.html, loaded into its own
<iframe>; but it's best to think of this file as a class definition for the
login class. The
<iframe src='.../loginPanel.html'> effectively instantiates an object of that class.
This "login object" handles the entire login process, interacting with the server when required. The login object notifies the containing page when the user successfully logs in or out. As is the case with any object, all communication both to and from the object is done by sending messages. (Server-side messaging is done using a REST protocol over HTTP, and client-side messaging is done using the nested-frame strategy we looked at last month.)
On the client side, all that you need to do to use the login object is instantiate it with a
<iframe src='https://.../loginPanel.html'>
somewhere on your page. Note the
https protocol that's important. The containing page does not have to be secure, so it doesn't have to be loaded using
https, but the login object does have to be secure. You also must set up a very small JavaScript object to handle the messages sent by the login object to the containing page. On the server side, you need to provide a handler for incoming messages by deriving a class from a
base class and overriding a small number of methods. These methods handle storing and retrieving the password from the data store, and so forth. We'll look at all this setup in detail shortly.
Before delving into the code, let's examine how the login object works. Like any properly implemented object, it's responsible for creating its own UI, and it displays itself in different ways depending on state. Figure 1 shows the login object in the logged-out state. The Create Account link is placed by the containing page (as is the page title), but everything else is created by the login object itself.
If you forget your password, clicking the forgot link causes the login object to redraw itself to a basic password-recovery box (Figure 2). You can either cancel out of that and get back to the original login box, or you can submit your user name. (Everything that happens from that point is up to the server we'll look at those details in a moment as well.)
When you log in successfully, the login object enters the logged-in state. It gets a login-session key from the server and stores that key in a cookie (in the secure URL's namespace). The login object then redraws itself again, but this time as a simple logout link (Figure 3). The login object has notified the containing page at this point, and the containing page creates the Account Preferences and positions it under the login object.
When you log out, the login object destroys the client-side version of the login-session key and notifies both the server and the containing page that a logout has occurred.
When the login object first loads, it looks for the cookie that holds the login-session ID; if it finds the cookie, the login object attempts to log in using the session ID before it displays anything at all. (Note that this session ID is secure. It was passed to the login object from the server using HTTPS and stored in the HTTPS-URL namespace on the client, so it can't escape into the wild.) If the login is successful, the login object goes directly into the logged-in state, displaying itself as a logout link. To make things a little easier on the end user, the login object effectively enables the remain-logged-in feature for a couple minutes after you leave a page, even if you didn't check "remain logged in." This way, you can leave the page briefly and then come back to it without having to log in again. This feature is disabled when you hit the log out link, though. Once you're logged out, you're logged out.
There's one other other display option that you can enable from the query string in the URL used to pull in the login object from the server. The login object can display itself initially as a single login link (Figure 4). (The gray border is there on my test page so that I can see the extent of the
<iframe> that holds the object.) When you click login, the object redraws itself (Figure 5) to look much like the earlier version, but this time with a big red "X" button that you can click to
dismiss the login box.
Setting Up the Client Side
Now, let's look at the code you need to get the login object to work in your program. You have to do two things on the client side:
Create message handlers
First, you need to define a small JavaScript object to handle notifications from the login object. I do that inside my page's
<head> element as follows:
<script type="text/javascript"> var listener = new Object(); listener.login = function(stringReturnedFromServer) { token = unescape( stringReturnedFromServer ); //... }; listener.logout = function() { //... }; listener.recoverPassword = function( htmlReturnedFromServer ) { text = unescape( htmlReturnedFromServer ); //... }; window.top.loginListener = listener; window.top.loginPanelURL = 'https://myApp/login/LoginPanel.html; </script>
I've declared an object called
listener that has three methods in it. The
login method is called when a successful login occurs (either from a username/password or from a previously stored login-session ID). In this case, the server can pass an arbitrary string down to the client, which is passed to this method as an argument. There's no secure information in this string, by the way. The login-session ID is managed by the login object, so you don't have to do anything with it.
The second method is
logout, which is called when the user logs out (but not when he or she simply leaves the page).
The third method,
recoverPassword, is called during the password recovery process. The login object passes the sever the user name, the server figures out if the password for that user is recoverable, and then it returns an arbitrary string back down to the client. Typically, this string will be the HTML for a password-recovery dialog. Since the password-recovery process varies considerably from one website to another, I didn't want to build it in to the login object.
The last thing you have to do in JavaScript is to define two variables at the
top level of the DOM.
loginListener points at the object we just looked at.
loginPaneURL contains the URL of the login object (we'll come back to that in a moment). The login object will not work if it doesn't find these two variables.
Instantiate the Login Object
Moving down to the
<body> element, instantiate the login object itself in the body of the page using a
<iframe> element like the following one:
<iframe src='https://secure.myDomain.com/login/loginPanel.html?mediator=http://myDomain.com/login/loginMediator.html&useLoginButton=true&prompt=User+Name' id='loginPanel' name='loginPanel' scrolling='no' frameborder='0'> </iframe>
Use CSS to style the frame as desired. I usually use:
<style type='text/css'> #loginPanel { float:right; width:2.5in; height:.8in; padding: 5 5 5 5; margin-right:1em; } </style>
src URL effectively pulls in a login-object class definition, and the URL's query string (to the right of the
?) effectively provides constructor arguments for the object.
It is essential that loginPanel.html be pulled in using the https protocol, and the domain from which you download the frame be different from the domain used for content that doesn't have to be secure. I use holub.com for standard content and secure.holub.com for secure content, and I suggest that you use the same subdomain-based approach. Using a separate domain assures that the cookie that holds the login-session ID, which must be kept secure, won't "leak out" into insecure content where it can be stolen by a hacker. On the server, I usually map this subdomain to the same physical directory system as the main domain. That is, both the main domain and the secure subdomain have the same "docroot." That way, I don't have to scatter source code files between two server-side directory systems.
This URL (without the query string) is the one that you put into the
window.top.loginPanelURL JavaScript variable I mentioned earlier.
You can put up to four constructor arguments in the query string:
If true, the login object initially displays as a login link that you click to display the username/password-prompt UI.
Specifies the actual prompt string for the user-name input field in the UI. The default string is "User Name," but you can use this argument to change it to something like "Email Address."
You'll remember from last month's article that the best way to send a message from an https frame (the login panel) to the containing page is to instantiate a small
<iframe>that runs a little JavaScript. That
<iframe>must be instantiated from the same "origin" as the containing page (same protocol, domain, and port). This argument specifies the URL of the file that contains the JavaScript that sends the login, logout, and recover password messages to the containing page, and it must have the same "origin" as the containing page. The loginMediator.html file is part of the login package you don't have to write it. (We'll look at the source code in a moment.) The
mediator=argument just tells the login object where to find the file.
If this argument is present, then the login panel redirects to another page if the login is successful. That is, it replaces the entire current page login panel and all with a new one, usually loaded using https. This argument takes the form
redirect=http://secure.mydomain.com/loggedIn.html. The containing page is not notified anymore (because the containing page is replaced by whatever page we just redirected to). This is by far the simplest way to handle the login, but it's a Web 1.0 approach. If you use
redirect=, you don't have to provide the
loginListenerobject that I discussed in the previous section, and you don't need to provide a
mediator=query argument in the current URL.
Setting Up the Server Side
So, that's it for the client side. Now let's look at the server.
Two classes are used. The first is
LoginManager, which handles the hard work of parsing the REST requests that the login object uses to talk to the server. It also defines a few password-management methods for use by other classes. The second is
LoginManager, which is opaque. It does it's work, then delegates the application-level work to the four abstract methods that are defined in
LoginManagerAdapter (Listing One). For those of you who care (do you detect a plaintive note of desperation? You should care!), this is an example of the Template Method design pattern, which is not usually my architecture of choice. The fact that
LoginManager is a Servlet makes other patterns, like Strategy, impractical, however.
Listing One
package com.holub.login.server; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import org.slf4j.Logger; import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory; /** This class provides a stub for (and an example of) how to hook server-side login support up to the * login-manager servlet. You can register this class as a servlet to test the system. You can * also extend this class to inherit default test methods if you want to use them. The default * implementations of the methods log a "severe" error (using the java.util.logging system). For * testing purposes, they recognize a username and password of "user" and "password" as valid and * everything else as invalid, and correctly process a re-login if remain-logged-in is specified. * <p> * The login-test methods return a small JSON String of the form: * <pre> {'value':'User-supplied login value (login 1)'} * </pre> * where the number is incremented on every login attempt. The recover-password method returns * the following HTML: * <pre> * {@value #PASSWORD_RECOVERY_STRING} * </pre> * * @author allen */ public class LoginManagerAdapter extends LoginManager { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoginManager.class); private static String currentHashedPassword = LoginManager.hashPassword("password"); // STORE THE HASHED VALUE IN THE DATABASE ! private static String currentLoginSessionID = null ; private static int count = 0; private static final String PASSWORD_RECOVERY_STRING = "<b>Internal \"error\"</b>: Could not recover password." ; //---------------------------------------------------------------------- // ServerSideLoginSupport overrides //---------------------------------------------------------------------- @Override public String checkPasswordValid(String userName, String password, String loginSessionID) throws Exception { log.error("**** SIMULATING **** login on server: " + userName + "/newID=" + loginSessionID ); // Verify the plain-text candidate password against the hash stored in the database // if( !(userName.equals("user") && LoginManager.verifyHash(password, currentHashedPassword)) ) return null; // In the real code, this value should be cached in memory and backed up to the database. You'll // need it to handle the remain-logged-in feature. Do not return this value in the return-value String. // currentLoginSessionID = loginSessionID; return "{'value':'User-supplied login value (login " + ++count + ")'}"; } @Override public String verifyLoginID(String userName, String oldLoginSessionID, String newLoginSessionID) throws Exception { log.error("**** SIMULATING **** verify on server: " + userName + "/oldID=" + oldLoginSessionID +"/newID=" + newLoginSessionID ); // If the presented (old) session ID matches the cached one, then we can log in. // if( !oldLoginSessionID.equals(currentLoginSessionID) ) return null; // Replace the old session ID with a new one. Not, strictly speaking, necessary, but it improves security. // currentLoginSessionID = newLoginSessionID; return "{'value':'User-supplied login value (verify " + ++count + ")'}"; } @Override public boolean logout(String userName, String loginSessionID ) { // if the session ID doesn't match the cached one, then this request is a hacker trying to log off someone else! log.error("**** SIMULATING **** logout on server: " + userName + "/" + loginSessionID ); return true; } @Override public String recover(String userName, String requestURI ) { log.error("**** SIMULATING **** password recovery on server ("+ requestURI +"). user=" + userName + ". Returning: " + PASSWORD_RECOVERY_STRING ); return PASSWORD_RECOVERY_STRING; } public void initializeLoginServices(HttpServletRequest request) { log.info("Initializing login-support from class: " + getClass().getName() ); } }
If you decide to use this file (and other Java sources) as is, note that in addition to the standard dependencies, I'm using the slf4j logging adapter (another design pattern: Object Adapter) available from slof4j.org. You'll have to put the slf4j jars onto your classpath to get a clean compile, and look at the slf4j docs to figure out which jars to include they'll vary. This nifty little package isolates your code from a specific logging system. You log to slf4j, and it relays the log messages to the system of your choice (log4j, java.util.logging, etc.). I use slf4j because my logging system of choice is log4j; but when I deploy to the Google App Engine, I have to log using
java.util.logging. Slf4j lets me switch from one logging system to the other without touching the source code (or the class files, for that matter).
Moving on to the actual class definition,
LoginManagerAdapter extends
LoginManager and provides overrides of the required template methods. Modify this code as required, or extend this class and override the methods you care about. The default implementations log a error-level message saying that they're simulating the real behavior, and in fact, they will correctly simulate logging in a user named "user" with the password "password." This way, you can use this class as a "mock object" to test the initial installation, and then incrementally replace the mock methods with ones that actually do something. The methods work as follows:
checkPasswordValid(userName, password, loginSesionID)
If the user name and (plain text) password match, then return an arbitrary String that's relayed to the client-side container that holds the login object. This String is the argument to the
listener.loginJavaScript method we looked at earlier. If you take a look at Listing One, you'll see that the mock object handles the password the same way that the real implementation should handle it. The BCrypt hash of the password is stored, not the plain-text password, and
checkPasswordValid(...)uses the base class's
verifyHash(plainTextPassword,hashedPassword)method to do the comparing. This method hashes the plain text version and compares the two hashes. You must store the hashed version, not the plain-text version, in the database.
The account-setup process creates the password hash and puts it into the database, so there's no code that does that here. The account-setup code, however, uses the
LoginManager.hashPassword(plainTextPassword)method to create the hash. The mock object uses that method to initialize the
currentHashedPasswordfield, up at the top of the class definition.
Finally, note that the base class passes
checkPasswordValid(...)the login-session ID as an argument. Do not, under any circumstances, pass this value back down to the client using the return-value String, because that String is not secure. If the container page were loaded using http (not https), the String would be passed to the client using http (not https), potentially exposing the session ID to a hacker. The login-session ID is managed securely by the client-side login object itself, so you don't need to worry about it on the client side at all.
The reason you're passed the login-session ID is that you'll need it later on to validate a returning user who's chosen to remain logged in. You should cache
loginSesionIDin memory (indexed by
userName) and also put it into the database entry for that user so that you can restore the memory cache if necessary. The mock object just stores the value in an instance variable, but that approach won't work in real code use a real cache like Jakarta JCS or JCache (which is Oracle's caching system as standardized by JSR 107). JSR 107 is in something of an orphan state, but The Google App Engine uses the JCache APIs. Google's implementation is based on the jsr107Cache project on SourceForge. I recommend using that system if you think you might deploy to the App Engine at some juncture. Find information about App-Engine caching here.
This method handles the automatic login that occurs if the user checked the "remain logged in" box. The first time this method is called, the
oldLoginSessionIDargument must have the same value as the
loginSessionIDargument to
checkPasswordValid(...). Approve the login if the
oldLoginSessionIDfor the specified
userNamematches the cached ID.
The login system replaces the old login-session ID with a new one as part of the login process, and the login system passes us that new value (in
newLoginSessionID) so that we can replace the one currently in the cache. That is, the login system uses a given login-session ID only once. The next time the system calls
verifyLoginID, the
oldLoginSessionIDargument should match the
newLoginSessionIDargument of the current call.
The mock object correctly replaces the old with the new value.
logout(userName, loginSessionID)
Log out the indicated user. If the session ID doesn't match the cached one, this is a hacker trying to log out somebody else. This method should clear the login-session ID out of the cache entirely to force any subsequent
verifyLoginID(...)calls to fail.
recover(userName, requestURL)
Handle password recovery. The request URL is the URL from which the password-recovery request originates. You can use it to determine if the request is legitimate. You'll typically return the HTML for a password-recovery dialog, and this String is returned to the client as the argument to the
listener.recoverPassword()JavaScript function we looked at earlier. The client will typically display this HTML in a dialog box.
A one-time initialization method called from the base-class's (Servlet's)
init()method. It doesn't have to do anything in particular, but if you need it, you need it.
Since the derived class is a Servlet, you'll need to register it in your web.xml file. The one I use is shown in Listing Two. Note that the URL (the "servlet-mapping") is
.../loginManager, but the actual class is the derived class we just looked at (
Listing Two
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <!-- Servlet that handles login requests. Change the URL to accommodate your deployment environment. The URL should be in the same relative directory as the loginPanel.html file. For example, if the login panel is in war/gwt/loginPanel.html, then the URL pattern would be <url-pattern>/gwt/loginManager</url-pattern> --> <servlet> <servlet-name>loginManager</servlet-name> <servlet-class>com.holub.login.server.LoginManagerAdapter</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>loginManager</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/login/loginManager</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
Sending Messages To The Login Object (Replacing the Default UI)
Though it's nice to use the login object as an off-the-shelf component, you can also use it as an invisible login agent that handles the session-key management and server-communication stuff, but doesn't expose a UI at all. To do that, just hide the
<iframe> that holds the login object (
src=loginPanel.html), and build your own UI to collect the user name and password. To actually log in or log out, you'll need to delegate to the login object by sending it a message.
Since we're communicating between frames, you'll send a message by instantiating a little JavaScript in a hidden
<iframe>, with a
src URL has the same origin as the login object (that is, of the loginPanel.html page used to instantiate the login object itself). The easiest way to do that is to put an empty
<div> onto your page, and then, in the clickhandler for the login button, instantiate the frame dynamically into that
<div> with the following JavaScript.
var mediatorURL = "myApp/loginRequestMediator.html" ; var username = ... // the user name to log in var password = ... // the user's password var remainLoggedIn = ... // true to remain logged in var request = "<iframe src='" + mediatorURL + "?username=" + username + "&password=" + password + (remainLoggedIn ? "&remainLoggedIn" : "") + "' style='position:absolute;width:0;height:0;border:0'></iframe>" ; document.getElementByID('communicationDiv').innerHTML = request;
mediatorURL must have the same origin (protocol, domain, port) as the login panel itself, and the loginRequestMediator.html file is part of the login package. We'll look at it in a moment. If you omit both the
username and
password arguments from the query string, the system logs out the user.
The Server-Side Implementation
We've covered the User's Guide now for the implementation. Since it's easier, let's start with the server side. The
LoginManager base class we extended earlier is in Listing Two.
Working from the top of the file down,
handles the incoming REST requests from the client. The query string can specify four arguments:
Tells the servlet what to do. Recognized values are
logout, and
Required for all of the actions.
Required for the
This is the session ID that was created by the
verifyaction. It's required for all actions except
The result (put into the
response object) is a small chunk of JSON created by one of the four methods just below
doGet(...). Taking
doLogin() as characteristic, it calls the
checkPasswordValid(...) method that's defined in the derived class, then assembles one of two JSON strings, depending on whether or not things worked. In the event of a failure, it returns:
{ 'status':'FAIL','userData':'' }
If the login succeeds,
doLogin(...) returns:
{ 'status':'OK', 'userData':'String returned from checkPasswordValid()', 'loginSessionID':'theSessionIDForThisLogin' }
That JSON is easy to parse on the client side, since it's legal JavaScript.
The next couple methods just chain to methods in the
BCrypt class, which does the password hashing. I've included that class in the source code distribution, but you also can download the most recent version from Damian Miller's web site.
The only other method of interest is
getSessionID(). This method, obviously, creates the login-session ID, and it goes to some trouble to make it universally unique. That is, the login-session ID has to be unique even if the system is distributed to several load-balanced servers, and it has to be both long enough and random enough that it's hard to attack using a brute-force attack. The generated session ID is a concatenation of a sequence of random bytes (which comes first for better distribution in a hash table), the current time, a counter that's incremented on every call, and the IP address of the server. A simple random number isn't good enough because random numbers can repeat (however unlikely, code shouldn't work solely because the odds are in favor of it working). You need the counter because the time has only millisecond resolution, so two requests might come in at the same effective time. The IP address is needed because two requests that come in at exactly the same time can be handled by different servers. I am assuming that the servers are all on the same subnet, so they'll have unique addresses. That assumption might be incorrect in some network topologies, but those would be very nonstandard configurations, and getting a machine's MAC address (a bulletproof solution) in Java is just too hard to do.
The default session-ID length (56 bytes) contains either 6 or 20 random bytes, depending on whether the server address is IPV4 or IPV6. The worst case is 48 bits or roughly 280,000,000,000,000 possible values, which should be secure enough to defend against a brute-force attack in most applications. You can use the
keyLen argument to add (or remove) randomness. The shortest permitted key is 48 bytes, which has only 16 bits of randomness in the worst case. That's not a great choice if the app is running on the Internet, outside of the firewall. The short key can save some space in the database for enterprise-only applications, however.
Finally, note that I'm encoding the session key using standard hex encoding (two characters per byte). If you change the code to use base-64 encoding, you can squeeze way more randomness into the same number of characters or get an equally secure key in fewer characters. (Base 64 encoding uses one character for every 6, rather than 4, bits, so it's 2/3 the size.)
You can download Listing Three here.


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Dr. Maqsudul Alam, Our Jute and Fungus Decoding September 24, 2012Posted by bdoza in AGRICULTURE, BANGLADESH.
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Few weeks back I was listening to a news in the TV stating that jute cultivators are in frustration as this year they lost their crops for fungus attack.
I was more than delighted hearing the news of Dr. Maqsudul Alam discovering the sequence of the fungus that destroy our jute.
The fungus – macrophomina phaseolina- is responsible for damaging jute and 500 more crops. 30% of the jute in our country are destroyed by this fungus causing loss of Tk. 4000 crore per year. By applying this gene code of fungus and jute code that he discovered 2 years back, new varieties of jute can be developed that will be finer in form and more resistant to fungus.
The project was financed by Bangladesh Government. The news was disclosed by the PM in the Parliament. The article was published in BMC Genomics on 17 September 2012. 17 scientists of different labs worked in the team. Final sequence of fungus gene was unveiled in the BARI laboratory, Dhaka.
Dr. Maksusul Islam has earlier decoded Papaya in USA and rubber plant in Malayasia.
Bangladesh has filed for patent right of Jute code and Fungus code, the patent right may bring billions of dollar to Bangladesh in future.
Congrats to Dr. Maqsudul Alam. He is a genius. He is a great hero for Bangladesh.
An ordinary citizen