There are several types of die cutting options for an unlimited number of applications and uses. Earlier this month our blog post addressed additional applications for using steel rule dies. At the close of the article we mention other die cutting processes that may be right for your needs.
First, we want to highlight another favorite customer story and successful use of die cutting. This project also used a steel rule die cutting technique.
An important factor in valuing airplanes is their paint job. Dimples and chipped paint is not ideal for making good impressions for passengers or buyers. It's also important to keep the paint covering materials that could rust or corrode.
Aircraft with dimpled areas experience additional interference drag and pull at the materials. Paint can dimple and tear. We used foil tape, that we die cut to a specific shape, and applied this to the top of the screw fixtures on an aircraft. This stopped the problem of the screw causing a dimple where the panels were attached to the frame.
The customer had an imperfection in their aircraft which hindered sales and did not look appealing, We solved their problem with a little R&D and a simple die cut piece.
This new process has produced a better product and was a better solution than other possible options, like redesigning screw fixtures with costly molds and engineering.
The bonding quality is a major consideration for the fatigue life of the airplane's paint. Painting or prepping all the minor pieces separately, including all the screws, is a pain but necessary for a factory look and proper repairs.
Perhaps you have project requiring heavy duty materials, printing and die cutting together or something you just haven't found a supplier for.
Thick aluminums and steels that require precise and accurate cuts often use a hardened steel die for cutting. The die investment is typically considerably more than a steel cut die, but they are very durable and economical for high run volumes and have very tight tolerances. SCN has the capability to run projects through an automatic feed process, increasing production efficiency – even though most projects are still cut 1 part at time. Large punch presses bring together male and female cutting surfaces for die cutting, forming and embossing projects.
Popular flexographic printing is often paired a cutting process with a rotary die however this process can be produced with or without printing. An etched cylinder can create precise and accurate cuts rather inexpensively, quickly and put through high volumes. Warning labels, thermal transfer labels, and other high volume low cost labels are typically produced with this process. Expect high quality printing and precision cutting in a single pass.
Finally, we'd be remiss if we didn't do a bit of bragging about the abilities of our CO2 laser with high-speed galvo head and servo motion cutting system. This laser die cutting or digital die cutting machine has both roll and sheet fed capabilities. This tool-less die option is fast, saves money and produces great quality products for digital, flexography or silkscreen projects that may require special cutting, perforation, numbering, etc. These abilities lend themselves to some great unique projects.
Die cutting is a popular option but only one of the many capabilities at SCN. Please follow our updates via RSS feed to read more customer stories.
Do you have a project you think could benefit from die cutting? Leave a comment below - we'd love to get some conversations started.


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Contran 245 / Resolução Nunro 245
A 245 é uma lei criada em Julho 2007.
A lei vai obrigar todas as montadoras e importadoras de Brasil colocar um equipamento anti furto em tovos os veiculos novos saindo da fabrica, a partir do ano 2009.
O equipamneto antifurto deverá ser dotado de sistema que posibilite o bloqueio e rastreamento do veiculo.
O equipamento [antifurto]] e o sistema de rastreamento deverão ser previamente homologados pela [Anatel]] e pelo Denatran.

Mudanças na lei
A lei for adiada várias vezes por solicitacoes da Anfavea.
A Ultima data aprovada pelo Denatran para a implementação da lei é Janeiro 2014 com 20% da produçcão, chegando ate 100% da produçuão ate o fim de 2014.

Impacto sobre o mercado nacional de Brasil
Em Brasil, que em 2013 tem apenas 2 milhões de Rastreadores, terá impacto de novos 5 milhões rastreadores por ano, o que será muito forte para toda a indústria de Rastreamento e de Segurança veicular.
Dados fornecidos pela Gristec, 2013.

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Sunoco Logistics Partners' Sunoco Pipeline is holding a binding open season for its Granite Wash Extension pipeline to provide crude oil takeaway capacity for growing production from the Granite Wash Shale in the northeastern Texas Panhandle and portions of western Oklahoma. The pipeline would originate in Wheeler County, TX, and terminate in Ringgold, TX, where it would interconnect with an existing Sunoco Logistics pipeline with the ability to provide transportation to Corsicana, TX. From Corsicana, access to multiple Sunoco Logistics and third-party pipelines would provide producers the ability to reach various markets and refineries on the Gulf Coast and in the Midcontinent. The partnership would lay 200 miles of new pipeline and construct pump stations, tankage and truck unloading facilities. The Granite Wash Extension is anticipated to have an initial capacity of 70,000 b/d to Ringgold and is expected to be operational in the fourth quarter of 2014.
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President Obama's much-anticipated climate action plan, which was rolled out last Tuesday, came down hard on coal-fired plants, while promoting renewable fuels along with fuel switching from coal to natural gas, a global market for natural gas, and the adoption of heavy-duty natural gas vehicles.
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The Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) expects there to be only "slightly upward pressure" on natural gas prices this summer compared to the summer of 2012 due to an anticipated drop in coal-to-gas switching by power generators and cooler temperatures early this summer.
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Although condensate production in the Utica Shale is occurring at a slower-than-anticipated pace, Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) said it has completed the conceptual engineering for condensate splitters at its refineries in Kentucky and Ohio, part of a $300 million investment to put the company in position to handle increasing volumes in the future.
Atlas Pipeline's Onshore NatGas Volumes Jump 63%
Driven by steadily increasing midstream business, Atlas Pipeline Partners LLP's (APL) natural gas volumes from onshore U.S. plays jumped by double digits in the first three months of this year from a year ago to average 1.03 Bcf/d, the operator said late Monday.
Chesapeake Attempts to Pare Short-Term Debt
Stung by low natural gas prices and the slower-than-anticipated turnaround to more lucrative liquids targets, Chesapeake Energy Corp. is selling $2.3 billion in senior notes in three separate series due in 2016, 2021 and 2023 to pare more expensive debt that matures this year.
As Expected, Colorado Oil Production Zooms
Living up to preliminary estimates earlier in the year calling for a 50-year high (see Shale Daily, Jan. 25), Colorado oil/natural gas officials released statistics showing oil production was up 22% last year, soaring past the 40 million bbl mark for the first time in a half-century at 47.9 million bbl.
Montana Lawmakers Eye Oil/Gas Impacts
With exploration and production (E&P) activity heating up along the eastern border of Montana as an extension of the North Dakota oil and natural gas boom, state lawmakers in the Big Sky state have proposed about a half-dozen new laws to deal with the impact on the local communities in the region.
Someone's Talking About DOE's LNG Export Consultant
On Monday Reuters, citing unnamed sources, reported that a much-anticipated report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the domestic market impacts of exporting liquefied U.S. gas is being prepared by NERA Economic Consulting. However, neither DOE nor the consultancy would confirm this.

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In Five Years, David Bowie sings of social connection and sensory overload in the face of impending apocalypse. The crisis seems to recalibrate the narrator's appreciation of social life while sharpening his powers to observe it. Five years somehow seems just long enough for wistful reflection but just short enough to force the issue with some urgency.
Whether one views this Inauguration Day as the beginning of the end or an altogether new beginning is, of course, a matter of perspective. At TSP, today marks our five-year anniversary, which we view as an opportunity to eat cake for breakfast. And, one might say, the end of our beginning. So we did a little recalibrating in our first graduate board meeting of 2017, talking through our appreciation of social research and ways to sharpen our vision and perspective in sharing it on TSP.
In some ways, we're lucky to be alive. About 50 percent of small businesses survive five years and we certainly wouldn't have made it this far without the tremendous support of our staff, students, contributors, and partners. But we want to do more and do it better — for the next five years and the five years after that. Thanks for reading and for supporting us. If we knew you were comin' we'd have baked a bigger cake.
Our readers and our writers (as well as our friends and partners) have been asking what the election of Donald Trump and Republican legislative majorities might mean for social science and social scientists. The sky is (probably) not falling and new opportunities will (almost surely) arise, but there are some significant challenges ahead for many of us who think of ourselves as social researchers – regardless of our own party affiliation. I am thinking here about the institutions that affect our research, teaching, and learning, rather than our individual or collective views or concerns as citizens or political actors. Most pointedly, the new regime has signaled that they will offer less material and symbolic support for sociology, for science, for criticism, and for higher education. Nobody can predict what will happen at this point and it may be too early, dumb, or offensive to raise practical professional questions from a position of unusual privilege, but I will follow Doug Hartmann in offering some personal reflections and semi-educated guesses based on the recent past.
Your work. There is no sugarcoating it: the conditions of work for most social scientists are unlikely to get any easier in the next few years. But our field has proven remarkably resilient. How many scholars believe their research, teaching, outreach, and engagement work suddenly became less important with this November's election? Like obstetricians or immigration lawyers, our life's work may simultaneously become more challenging and more meaningful in coming years. Consider the topics listed atop our main page at TSP: gender, race, inequality, crime, culture, health, and politics. Ya think the election won't bring new urgency to work in any of these areas, or new research questions to investigate? To paraphrase Etta James, the blues is our business and business is good. That said, federal research funding streams may slow to a trickle. I anticipate a pivot toward foundations, community partners, and universities that are already stretched thin. I spoke with a foundation representative today who seemed keenly aware of this potential vacuum — and sincerely interested in learning where their investments might do the most good. Of course, most social scientists will continue to do good work without major grants or fellowships and there will likely be new grant solicitations in narrowly-defined target areas. But at this point I would rather scale back my projects (and those of my students) than delay them in anticipation of a large infusion of federal social science research dollars.
Your institution. I know it isn't the first issue on your mind, but life could also get more complicated for the people who sign your paychecks. Boo freaking hoo, right? Well, imagine being a public university president in a state transitioning from an education-friendly governor (and/or legislature) to a new regime less committed to higher education (or, perhaps, one that is explicitly anti-intellectual). Top administrators and their staff in government relations must now reframe their appeals – simply to hold onto the 20 percent (or whatever – your mileage may vary) they (we) currently receive. If experience is any guide, they will offer both a vigorous defense of liberal arts education and renewed claims about "ROI" (return on investment) and your university's role in workforce development. Such talk strains relations with faculty and students but does not (necessarily) mean that your leaders have sold out or turned their back on "core mission." It may be one among many strategies to bring the resources needed to sustain that mission. Yes, they can and must "fight the good fight" and they might be better served leading a march on the state capitol, but their messaging, their invitation lists, and even their hires will respond in some way to the new power dynamics. Hold your leaders and institutions accountable, but remember that they are probably not your principal enemy and do what you can to help them advocate for the social sciences.
Your peers. Though our positions and power vary greatly, many of us share at least a loosely-connected professional identity. This election has been especially divisive within sociology, pitting sister against sister in heated debates, whether over Bernie versus Hillary or the best path forward under Trump. But sociologist-on-sociologist violence will get us nowhere. As one election post-mortem noted, it simply isn't tactical for groups to insist on moral purity or 100 percent consensus. And our professional life already exaggerates differences imperceptible to civilians, whether we're arguing the nuances of Foucauldian theory or the relative merits of Poisson vs. negative binomial regression. The Society Pages believes that sociology needs a "big tent" to prosper – one embracing both our pure science wing and our social activist wing. Because we don't have a lot of weight to throw around, we'd likely be further diminished if we "cleave it in twain." So I'm going to continue to love all y'all – even when y'all disagree. Of course, smart people of good will disagree on what to do next. Some advocate resistance, protests, and letter-writing campaigns. Others "stay in their lanes," only taking policy positions when they have direct and empirically verifiable expert knowledge on a subject. And, yes, others will work directly with the new regime – often on the same sorts of policy questions they are pursuing with the current regime. I was more frequently summoned to Washington under the Obama and Clinton administrations than during the Bush administration(s), but the latter also took up issues that mattered to me (such as prisoner reentry). I saw how social scientists can make a tangible difference under blue, red, and purplish regimes. Maybe this time it's different and more nefarious, but on balance I would almost always prefer to have good social scientists in the room when decisions affecting society are made.
After wrapping up a public talk Thursday night, I was delighted to see political scientist Larry Jacobs smiling down from the screen above. On-deck as the next speaker in the series, Professor Jacobs has taught me a great deal about public scholarship. He's in the news these days for Fed Power: How Finance Wins (with Desmond King), but he's written powerfully and well on numerous hot-button topics as health care reform (with Theda Skocpol), public deliberation, democratic responsiveness, and US foreign policy.
(1) He is active and effective in engaging local as well as national and international audiences.
(2) Although he clearly has political views, Larry takes pains to offer a fair-minded perspective.
(3) Similarly, as a center director and leader of our local Scholars Strategy Network chapter, he invites speakers who don't always agree with him (or with our faculty, or University administration, or each other).
(4) He is a prolific and respected national academic expert in particular specialties, but he has also developed the command and authority to speak to a broad set of public concerns.
(5) After cataloging these attributes, it almost seems redundant to note his boundless energy and willingness to make himself available on short notice.
When universities invite me to visit, I often do a second talk for graduate students on "safe and risky research agendas." Many students around the country seem stuck between the jobs crisis of the recent past and an uncertain future of disruptive technology, tenure battles, and mounting student debt. Maybe it's not surprising, then, that many of our best and brightest seem to oscillate between a full-on "strategic" concern for maximizing their employability and a full-on utopian disregard for their market prospects. When they ask for advice, I first advise them that not all advice is good advice. But I do suggest they invest a bit more in teaching and that they consciously pursue both a safe and a risky research agenda. Such advice, I hope, will be good for them as individuals and good for the collective sociological enterprise.
By safe agenda, I'm referring to a line of research in which the student builds up specific authority and expertise in an established topic or area. This can arise from long-term interest in a subject or intensive interest stemming from dissertation or research assistant work. Once one has written a paper or two in an area, the start-up costs of publishing an additional piece diminish – it isn't as though they have to master a completely new field with every article. They are also likely to find an established and active research literature surrounding their safe agenda, with obvious next steps to pursue. This means that it is pretty easy to identify which journals will be interested in a study, the editors can readily identify knowledgeable experts to review it, and the reviews will be relatively consistent and predictable. Pursuing a safe agenda in a series of book or article publications is likely the single best way to establish a reputation as an expert and authority in a field or subfield – and that can lead to jobs and promotions. In short, "safe" in this context represents the foundational work of good social science, rather than, say, boring or easy research.
Risky agendas, in contrast, tend to be messier. The field might be new to the researcher and her advisors, so the start-up costs are higher. There may be few good studies to draw upon, or perhaps a lot of the action on the topic is taking place in other fields or disciplines. This means she will likely need to frame her research in ways that convince people in the field they should be interested in the topic. This isn't an easy process. When a reviewer told Jason Houle that his research on debt was not sociology, for example, he suggested creating a new journal: The American Journal of Not Sociology. Even when successful in framing the article for sociology, such work tends to elicit polarized reviews and evaluations. Moreover, there is little agreement on the "next logical steps" to be taken and there is no consensus that even the very best work on the topic merits publication or funding. Still, if and when such research is published, the author tends to develop a reputation as a "mover and a shaker" with fresh ideas and energy.
Research time is scarce for social scientists, but I try to reserve at least 10 percent of my research energies for my risky agenda. This includes new ideas with a high probability of immediate failure and/or quixotic ideas that will not pay off for years or even decades. This is because I most admire the sociologists (and artists, for that matter) who somehow manage to sustain a safe and a risky agenda throughout their careers. Over time, they've developed well-earned reputations and careers as both productive "finishers" and creative wild-cards. Perhaps fields and disciplines also prosper when they simultaneously create space for safe and risky agendas. As Wayne Coyne once said, "It's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness." I'd wager that the same holds true for individual sociologists and for sociology as a collective enterprise.
If there's one idea that seems to unite professors, it's that our critics get us wrong. Turn on the radio, pick up a paper, or check your social media feed to hear all manner of wild generalizations and harsh political, economic, and cultural critiques of higher education. Many suggest that if we only ran universities like businesses, we could simultaneously cut costs, rein in tuition and student debt, make better use of our infrastructure, and squeeze more productivity out of pampered professors. Most of us toiling in the brain mill recoil at such suggestions, envisioning dystopian campuses where research and teaching excellence no longer offer any resistance against the crude imperative to put "butts in seats" (perhaps in a cost-efficient pole barn, rather than a gorgeous Romanesque classroom building that now seems too spendy to maintain). Yes! Much would be lost if we really ran universities like businesses. After all, only about half of the Fortune 500 companies of 2000 seems to have survived to 2016.
Our aversion to these critics stems in part from self-interest and in part from our desire to protect the sacred — the unfettered pursuit of truth and the real enduring bond between the best teachers and their students. It sounds hokey, I know, but didn't your favorite teachers and professors approach their work in this way? Still, while many of us are struggling mightily to nurture and defend something important, I am increasingly convinced that we're not mounting our defense from very firm ground. As a professor and administrator, I'd like to see a stronger collective commitment among the faculty on a few no-brainers.
We take teaching seriously and work to improve it. Most college professors invest greatly in teaching and their students, spending our nights, weekends, and holidays reading their work and writing on their behalf. That said, there's a small minority who really don't seem to care – and, too often, the rest of us look the other way. During a faculty senate discussion of student teaching evaluations, for example, I witnessed a tenured professor step to the mic to say that he simply tossed the big envelope of evaluations he gets each semester in the garbage – and hadn't looked at them in 20 years. There was a little nervous laughter, but no response from the faculty or administrators in attendance. My silence in that moment felt like complicity. Though nobody wanted a long argument about the merits and known biases of such ratings, shouldn't we all care about whether students find us well-prepared, clear, and responsive? Or that we deliver a course experience that is both challenging and rewarding? We'd be on firmer ground if we spoke up for teaching and learning in such moments.
We actually produce research and creative activity. With so much public and university attention on teaching and tuition reduction, carving out time and resources for research will likely get more challenging. Some of us can sustain our research through external grants and fellowships, but I suspect that most research is "funded" by requiring faculty to teach 1 or 2 courses per semester rather than, say, 3 or 4 or 6 courses per semester. This is particularly the case in the arts and humanities, where grants are especially scarce, but holds more generally across the university. For those of us fortunate enough to be paid a portion of our salaries for our research efforts, we are only on firm ground if we actually produce research. Ideally, this research is meaningful to both our peers and some broader community, but here I am referring to the simple obligation to produce some kind of scholarly work, such as books, articles, performances, and exhibitions. Many of us believe our intellectual work transcends the crude production of scholarly products or deliverables. But our claim to resources for research rests on the responsible use of these resources. If our appointment is designed to be 50 percent research and 50 percent teaching, we simply cannot check out of the research game – or look the other way when colleagues who are paid to do research seem to "pre-tire" from the activity.
We participate knowledgeably and responsibly in faculty governance. Much has been written about the adjunctification of higher education, but I see an equal threat in vicepresidentialization – the proliferation of administrators governing our work. As much as we complain about them, my sense is that faculty today are increasingly abdicating to these administrators – we leave it to them to tell our colleagues, "no, a heli-pad on the social science tower is just a dumb idea" or, "15 years without a publication or presentation does seem like a long time." If we don't want patronizing or dismissive responses from administrators, we need to engage them with concrete, thoughtful, and realistic proposals. And, frankly, we would be on much firmer ground, in discussions of post-tenure review and other matters if we did a bit more self-policing. Each time tenure and academic freedom are invoked as a sort of "diplomatic immunity" by professors gone wild — the dangerous bullies, the serial harassers, and the radically disengaged and irresponsible — the power of these commitments is correspondingly diminished. If our colleagues are behaving badly (or simply withdrawing) due to mental health or addiction issues, it is far better to humanely address these as mental health or addiction issues rather than simply giving such faculty a wide berth and avoiding the underlying problem.
I suspect that professors might be more unified in opposing our critics than in advancing a particular vision of change or resistance. If these aren't no-brainers to you, that's fine. My point here is only to suggest that we can put up a stronger and more unified fight for the things we care about if we do so from firmer ground.
We've always wanted to build up our TSP offerings on health and society. So we're delighted to announce a new health tab, curated by the high-powered team of Caty Taborda and Sarah Catherine Billups. Like our topics pages on crime, politics, gender, race, inequality, and culture, our health tab will pull together in-house content as well as work from our community pages and partners like the Scholars Strategy Network and Council on Contemporary Families.
Since we're just getting rolling, it is a perfect time to pitch us with ideas for feature articles, roundtables, or podcast interviews on health and medicine. Given the vibrancy of scholarship in the area, look for more health and society content on both our main page and an upcoming TSP volume.
Last week, our former university president Mark Yudof quipped that "Americans spend more on potato chips than research – maybe they like the flavor better." We haven't checked Mr. Yudof's math, but his points are well-taken. First, research budgets have been lean, particularly in the social sciences. Second, our research sometimes unearths truths that our leaders and citizens may find distasteful, particularly in the social sciences.
The Society Pages is built on the belief that social scientific information, analysis, and perspective is vital and necessary for policy makers, the general public, and the continued health and betterment of society. Yet producing this knowledge and insight requires some degree of resources and support. Today, one of the key U.S. sources of financial support for that work —the National Science Foundation—is currently under scrutiny and attack.
On April 15, House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith introduced the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), the authorization bill for the National Science Foundation (NSF). This bill, a variation of which was floated last year as well, would impose a devastating 45% cut on the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate–effectively eliminating grant funding for sociology and the other social sciences. NSF review panels have generally done a terrific job identifying important research ideas to fund. Unfortunately, they must often reject a great number of equally important research ideas for lack of funds. A 45 percent cut would indeed be devastating.
Apart from our capacity to fund needed research, the Law & Society Association explains how the proposed bill could diminish the role of scientific experts and increase the role of political actors in setting scientific priorities. If you are a member of the American Sociological Association or another social science association, you probably already received a message encouraging you to contact your local Congressperson (and university officials) to reiterate the harm that this bill would do to core social scientific research and analysis. And if you just want to know more about the details of these proposed cuts, the Consortium of Social Science Association's analysis is a good place to start.
If you like what we do on The Society Pages, please consider acting on behalf of social science research more generally. Having a potato-chip budget has been tough enough. We shouldn't leave social science researchers with the crumbs in the bottom of the bag.
My father in law once asked, "How're things going down at the brain mill?" Well, today I'd respond that these are challenging but exciting times in education. We've all read the headlines — powerfully disruptive technologies, troubling race and class disparities, privatization and disinvestment in public schools, historically high tuition and debt loads, school-to-prison disciplinary pipelines, and rapidly changing demographics. While social scientists are doing important research to make sense of these changes, there are few accessible resources for "interested non-experts" who want to keep up with the field. That's why we're so happy to welcome our new Education & Society community page to TSP. We've been wanting to expand coverage of the "education beat" for years.
An interdisciplinary team of Minnesota-based education researchers writes and curates features like 3 Questions, 250 Words, and Education in the News. You'll find interviews with education researchers as well as terrific summaries of new education research appearing in journals like the Annals, American Journal of Education, Sociology of Education, and Social Psychology Quarterly. We'll be featuring Education & Society on the TSP main and topical pages as well as in our social media feeds. But anyone curious about life at the brain mill should regularly stop by the community page and Twitter feed.
When the news came from Ferguson on November 24th, it was hard to know what to do. Every sociologist and criminologist possesses some pertinent expertise, whether we study violence, law, race, or criminal justice and injustice. But how and when should we engage? The streets were alive with protesters, police officers, and journalists. The President was calling for calm, which was itself a polarizing message. And Facebook feeds flowed with horrifying videos, rage, and invective, as many were "defriending" and "unfollowing" one another until their social networks were fully purged or converted.
Reprinted from Crime, Law & Deviance News, FALL/WINTER 2014 -2015.
Many TSP readers are more interested in research findings than the methodologies used to obtain them. But methods are often an important part of the story, such as new experimental studies that provide powerful tools for measuring discrimination. Backstage at TheSocietyPages, we're constantly arguing about whether a study's methods are strong enough to support its findings. And methods are so important that we won't run a piece unless we agree the underlying research is methodologically sound — regardless of who produced it or where it was published.
So we've always wanted a front-stage spot on the site to geek out about methods and explore how we know what we (think we) know. That's why we're so delighted to welcome Give Methods a Chance to TSP. GMAC is hosted by Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson, two all-star TSP board members, podcasters, and exceptionally creative multi-method researchers and teachers. Their first couple podcast interviews will give you a sense of the site's vision and mission: thoughtful discussions with Deborah Carr on how and why we do longitudinal studies, and Francesca Polletta on systematically coding and analyzing people's stories. Like a good research design, their interviewing approach helps render complex ideas clear and comprehensible.
These podcasts are wonderful for researchers and readers eager to learn how first-rate scholars do their work, but they'll be an especially useful resource for methods students and teachers. When instructors bring methodology alive for students, as Kyle and Sarah are doing, it has a lasting impact on students. As a department chair, I saw how alumni who pursued careers in business, justice, or social services routinely cited methods as the "sleeper" courses that paved the way for their success. And we hear similar stories from students who became social scientists (like Eric Hedberg, who just sent Facebook props for teaching him paired t-tests 15 years ago — along with his new article on the subject).
We also think Give Methods a Chance will show how sound methodology has far more to do with elegant design principles than technical complexity. As Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art puts it, good design "combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing." As you'll see from Give Methods a Chance, the best social science does precisely the same thing.


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But if I wanted to create it in another way I get an error "Expression is not assignable"
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What would be the correct way to use my [self theArray] in the example above?

A: self.theArray = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:...

[self theArray] is an accessor, not a mutator
or you can use
[self setTheArray:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:...];

A: Property assignment is done using the dot notation. To keep is short use the NSArray literal syntax.
self.theArray = @[
    @[@"String1", @"String2"],
    @[@"String3", @"String4"]
];

This assumes you declared theArray as a property of course and a setter is available:
@property(strong) NSArray *theArray;

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I recently attended the world's first dual-nation live broadcast hackathon event; MiSK's 'Medical Internet of Things'. A mixed team participation between hackers in London and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The talent of teams and the mentors (who supported with their expertise) was really inspirational.
At midday on Friday 25th the hackathon began. Some teams arrived with pre-formed ideas ready to develop, others needed to kickoff with research and ideation that day. My team (made up of two developers and two UX/UI designers) were the latter.
From initial research and discussions, we decided to focus on a problem that affects many people having medical treatment; when going to a doctor's appointment patients can feel overwhelmed (by information or emotions), which can lead to missing or forgotten information. This can cause difficulties in later health related decisions or communications. After interviewing Doctors we also discovered they all wished they had more time to communicate the diagnosis and treatments with patients.
Through user research, feature analysis, creating personas, user flows and task flows; we formed our solution to the problem.
The solution is a cloud based web application named My Med that has the ability to record an appointment (or summary), provide useful, Doctor-approved further reading, enable media and image uploading, details of patients prescriptions and next steps for treatments. The patient would then have the ability to share (and revoke) consultations with loved ones and other health professionals in order to keep them in the loop. Doctors use My Med through an online web-portal and synchronise necessary notes from their practices system to minimise additional work.
My Med was designed as a cloud based web application because it would be adaptable and accessible to more users in many formats. The web backbone (desktop focused) would be better suited to use by Doctors in appointments, as well as those who have accessibility problems or technology preferences. Those who are more mobile have the ability to sign in through tablets or smart phone. API's would power the apps and other tangential services.
At the end of the 48 hours a team-mate and I presented our work in a 2.5 minute pitch to a judging panel for a chance to win a share of the $185,000 investment available. It was fantastic to see what the other teams had done in both countries. Our team did not come in the top 3, however we have been given a $10,000 investment to take our product to market. We have also made connections with mentors that will help us progress further within the industry and create a strong business plan.
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This 48 hour hackathon (although exhausting) was an amazing experience. It showed how rapid design and front/backend development can produce something that has the potential to improve vulnerable individuals lives; empowering them to take their healthcare more into their own hands. Our team are very proud of our product and I hope to give you updates on its development in the months to come.


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How McDonald's work out music policy at their restaurants and why you'll hear different songs in different branches
It's not a 'one size fits all' musical soundtrack for the fast-food giant
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Anyone who visits a McDonald's restaurant on a regular basis can hardly fail to be struck by the widely differing music policies in operation at different sites.
During the day, the soundtrack to your Big Mac and fries is likely to be a selection of fairly bland-sounding modern R&B, noticeable but hardly intrusive.
However, the later it gets, you might notice a subtle change in the tunes being spun by your invisible McDJ.
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While some will stick to the daytime formula, others will branch out into classic rock such as AC/DC, while a few will go full-on Classic FM with light classical music.
If it's the latter, beware - the reason for this strange choice of music for a fast-food outlet is that it's being used as a soothing balm to pre-empt any anti-social behaviour.
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This wide variation in music is belied by the bland statement posted on McDonald's official website, which states: "The music we play in our restaurants is a background music feed that an external company provides for us.
"Most of the music played in our restaurants is a selection of current tracks being played on mainstream radio."
The menu might never differ at McDonald's - but the music certainly does (Image: Getty Images)
Back in 2017, the ECHO reported how McDonald's flagship city centre restaurant in Lord Street had started playing classical music in the early hours of the morning to calm down any rowdy behaviour from customers.
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"McDonald's has tested the effects of classical music in the past and played it inside some of our restaurants, and has found it encourages more acceptable behaviour."
But Liverpool is far from being the only place - other branches locally include Liscard in Wirral, while it has also been tried out by franchise owners in Glasgow and London.
Of course, the use of piped classical music to quell yobbish behaviour is nothing new. If nothing else, it discourages young people to loiter in an area, simply because - for the most part - they simply can't stand it.
Tyne and Wear Metro was one of the first to recognise the pacifying force of the great composers when, inspired by the success of schemes operating in Canada, it began playing classical music at some outlying stations.
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is a winner when it comes to driving away the thugs
From here and other places, the five most successful pieces at driving away unruly youths were:
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Shostakovich Piano concerto no 2
Williams: Theme from Schindler's List
Beethoven Pastoral Symphony
Saint-Saens: The Swan
So rather than investing in expensive state-of-the-art CCTV equipment, perhaps we should all take a leaf out of McDonald's book when it comes to dealing with anti-social behaviour - and blast out some Beethoven.


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The magical (postmodern) world of Disney
How major architects of the 1980s and early 1990s brought a new fantastic point of view to the Walt Disney Company's buildings
By Angela Serratore Jul 17, 2019, 8:00am EDT
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It was 1991 and Michael Eisner was on the brink of changing everything.
After becoming the CEO of the Walt Disney Company in 1984, Eisner, a native New Yorker, set out to turn the old-fashioned Disney brand into one that would speak not just to the present moment but also, crucially, to the future. During his tenure, the company would eventually acquire the television network ABC and the sports behemoth ESPN and produce films that would come to define the Disney Renaissance—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Aladdin, among others.
An amateur architecture and design buff, Eisner also understood that a company like Disney ought to have a real presence—theme parks, of course, but also office buildings, studios, and hotels. What if, his design philosophy seemed to suggest, people could look up at Disney headquarters in Burbank or Orlando and feel the same awe and delight they must've felt on Disneyland's opening day?
The Orlando headquarters of Disney, designed by 2019 Pritzker Prize winner Arata Isozaki
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Eisner, like many heads of global corporations, had a motive that wasn't so much ulterior as it was explicitly shouted from every rooftop the Walt Disney Company owned (and it owned a lot of them). "George Lucas will see Michael Graves's hotel and he'll want to do movies for us," Eisner told the New York Times. Lucas, Spielberg—the best and brightest of film and TV and music and art would, if Eisner's plan worked, see the Walt Disney Company in business with the most impressive architects of the day and want to go into business with the Walt Disney Company themselves.
Nearly 20 years later, Disney owns the intellectual property rights to the Star Wars universe Lucas created, and this summer, millions of tourists will descend upon Disneyland to experience the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, a $1 billion dollar addition to the ur-theme park boasting rides that integrate storylines from the new Star Wars movies and a cantina where, for the first time in Disneyland's half-century, guests will be allowed—even encouraged!—to consume alcohol.
It's Disney's theme parks and outdoor shopping malls that garner the most attention today, but its collection of buildings by Michael Graves, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown, Aldo Rossi, Arata Isozaki, Charles Moore, and other champions of postmodern design deserve to be recognized as more than just great works of corporate architecture. For a brief moment in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Eisner was Disney's Medici, enthusiastically commissioning (and bankrolling) monuments not just to the Mouse, but to postmodernism itself.
It seemed like everyone wanted to go to Disneyland.
From its opening in July 1955, Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom was at capacity virtually every day—freeway traffic and endless lines couldn't keep people away. In 1959, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visited Los Angeles, keen to see Disneyland above almost all else. When it became clear that security concerns would keep him from the park, Khrushchev was outraged: "And I say, I would very much like to go and see Disneyland," he declared. "But then, we cannot guarantee your security, they say. Then what must I do? Commit suicide? What is it? Is there an epidemic of cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me?"
There were no infectious diseases or underworld syndicates lurking around Fantasyland, but immediately after Disneyland's opening, the company (Walt in particular) realized its crucial error—Disneyland was too small to support visitor needs while maintaining a cohesive Disney feeling.
At 85 acres, the theme park is still more than even a fast walker can take in on a single day. But by the early 1960s, 'Disneyland adjacent' had become its own category—just outside the gates sprung up a village of motels and fast-casual dining that to Disney tarnished the Magic Kingdom brand. In 1963 Disney purchased the land that would eventually hold the Orlando resorts, not making the same mistake twice—in Florida, Walt Disney's initial land purchase came to nearly 7,000 acres. This zeal for control over Disney's built environment is one that would come to define the Eisner building era, too—if a building is going to hold Disney offices, house Disney guests, or sell Disney products, it ought to feel not like a separate workspace or hotel or shop but like an extension of Disney itself.
It wasn't just tourists and communist dictators enchanted by Disneyland—architects and critical theorists understood that the park's opening (and wild success) signified a real shift in American design. In 1963, city planner James Rouse, in a commencement speech at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, insisted that "the greatest piece of urban design in the United States today is Disneyland. It took an area of activity—the amusement park—and lifted it to a standard so high in its performance, in its respect for people, in its functioning for people, that it really became a brand new thing."
Disney's Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, designed by Michael Graves
By the early 1980s, it became clear that Disneyland would be central to the development of postmodern philosophy. In 1981's Simulacra and Simulation, the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard suggests that Disneyland is our best example of the hyperreal. "Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real," he says, "whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation." In Travels in Hyperreality, Italian theorist Umberto Eco asserts that Disneyland, having not just perfected the art of a fully-staged world, "can give us more reality than nature can."
We're close to the 50-year mark of postmodern architecture, and the question of its legacy is one preservationists will surely debate hotly for the next decade. Questions about how we'll think about Disney and the built environment, too, have shifted—a series of reports in the Los Angeles Times uncovered the sobering fact that most of the people who work at Disneyland can't afford to live anywhere near it. While Disney spaces themselves might be hyperreal, it is impossible to discount the fact that the many people who keep them running must be paid real money they can use to pay real rents.
The postmodern Disney buildings of the later 20th century weren't just happy accidents—it's not a coincidence that in searching for a group of architects to bring the ethos of Disneyland to the streets of Los Angeles and Orlando, Michael Eisner landed on the ones most famous for their postmodern masterpieces. He wanted the best of the best, but also those architects who, however subconsciously, spoke the language of Disney.
Eisner turned to architect Robert A.M. Stern, whom he'd met years earlier when Stern worked on a renovation of Eisner's parents' Manhattan apartment, and Stern connected Eisner with postmodern architect Michael Graves, fresh off the triumph of Portland Building, largely considered one of the significant works of early postmodern architecture.
It was a smart match—Graves was developing a reputation for audacious, colorful, witty structures that touched upon histories real and invented, and Disney was in the market for some historical monuments of its own.
Eisner proved to be a remarkable study on the ethos of late-1980s postmodern architecture. "The best design, like the best of any art, needs to be challenging and provocative, even a little threatening at first," he wrote in his memoir Work in Progress: Risking Failure and Surviving Success. "At the same time, we tried to never take ourselves too seriously. As important as it was to design buildings that were aesthetically pleasing, they also had to be fun and entertaining."
The Michael Graves-designed Disney Corporation Headquarters building in California, with sculptures of the seven dwarfs supporting the roof.
Eisner's building spree was underway, and between 1989 and 1991, three Graves-designed Disney structures were unveiled to the public: In Burbank, the Team Disney headquarters was a Greek Temple dedicated to the Gods of Walt, complete with 19-foot-high columns in the shape of the Seven Dwarfs, and in Orlando, the Swan and Dolphin Resort, two Disney World hotels stylistically a marriage of classic Miami modern and the Enchanted Tiki Room. Eisner, for one, couldn't rhapsodize enough on either project. Upon the opening of the Swan and Dolphin, Patricia Leigh Brown, writing in the New York Times, painted a picture of a patron enchanted by the portrait he'd commissioned:
''It works,'' Michael D. Eisner, chairman and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, was saying the night the Swan Hotel opened in Orlando, Fla. He was referring, among other things, to the lobby, where guests are greeted by Graves's two-dimensional potted palms and cutouts of parrots on perches holding light fixtures in their beaks.
In Work in Progress, Eisner suggests that far from Disney turning Graves into a glorified Imagineer, the architect intuitively understood what a Disney building ought to be. He added, to make each hotel dominate the Epcot-area skyline, "two huge swans for one and two dolphins for the other. The idea of using these creatures—icons that had classical antecedents but were also lighthearted and accessible—it seemed a perfect solution for a Disney hotel."
Eisner seemed especially proud of Team Disney Burbank, both the building itself and his own enjoyment of it: 'The fact is, we're the only company who can get away with it," he told Brown. "If you saw seven dwarfs holding up a building anywhere else in the world, you'd think it was like plastic reindeers or something."
Graves wasn't the only postmodern architect tapped by Eisner to work for Disney, but his buildings got the most attention—and took the brunt of criticism.
If a building is going to hold Disney offices, house Disney guests, or sell Disney products, it ought to feel not like a separate workspace or hotel or shop but like an extension of Disney itself.
Pritzker Prize-winning architect James Stirling cast aspersions on the idea of designing for Disney at all. "We're not very sympathetic to the theme idea,'' he explains to Brown in the New York Times. "To me, it seems demeaning and trivial and somehow not profound or important. It's overly commercial. In England, we're subjected to it in a gross way—the parading of the guards, the dressing up at the Tower of London, and Madame Tussaud's. Maybe we invented the bloody thing." Critic Paul Goldberger, in his own assessment of the Graves Team Disney building, wondered if the columns were "less an instance of true wit than an architectural joke ordered from on high -- a gesture given mock solemnity that, by virtue of its scale and placement, becomes in the end truly solemn, which was not the idea at all."
And then, of course, there was Walt Disney's brother Roy, whose objection was more an indictment of Eisner himself than philosophical critique: "Though the monumental facade was leavened by bas-reliefs of the Seven Dwarfs in the pediment," writes James B. Stewart in Disney War, "Roy felt the building represented everything that was bloated and pretentious in the company that Eisner had created."
Ada Louise Huxtable, in an essay published in the New York Review of Books, suggested that the Disney building boom was a perversion of the postmodern project. "It has instantly recognizable characteristics—an emphasis on surface gloss, on pastiche, on the use of familiar but bowdlerized elements from the history of design…" she wrote. "…these attributes provide a dubious replacement for the rigorous and elegant synthesis of expression and utility that has always defined and enriched the best of the building art. This change in vision and values has brought irreversible changes in the understanding and practice of architecture today. The art of architecture as packaging or play-acting is a notion whose time, alas, seems to have come."
The fate of postmodern architecture in the United States is inextricably bound up with Disney: The genre certainly had its critics before Graves et. al. joined the employ of the company, but the specific charges laid at the feet of buildings like Team Disney Burbank and the Swan and Dolphin Resort are ones that persist, and ones that are echoed by critics of Disney itself. Both are accused of a certain flash disguising shallowness. All form, one might say, and no function.
The Dolphin Hotel, designed by Michael Graves, at Walt Disney World
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But to discount the Disney-sponsored architecture of the Eisner era as the folly of a Neo-Gilded Age captain of industry or the excesses of artists blinded by money is to forget that some of the works immediately transcended both genre and benefactor.
Team Disney's Florida counterpart, known as Team Disney Orlando, was helmed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, in the late 1980s fresh off his triumphant design of Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art. Isozaki expressed, in various interviews, bemusement at having been counseled against working for Disney—his reputation as a designer of museums, people said, ought to set him above the kinds of buildings that have themes, and yet his childhood interest in Disney, coupled with the relative creative freedom Eisner offered, convinced him to do the project.
The town hall in Celebration, Florida, designed by Philip Johnson
And the theme of Team Disney Orlando is perhaps the theme of postmodernism itself: time. "The huge, open drum in the middle of the building turns out to be not just an ornamental tower but a vast sundial—Disney officials claim it is the world's largest—that functions as both a meditative central court and a way of observing the passage of time," writes Paul Goldberger in his 1992 review. If postmodernism takes as its thesis that a building ought not to be timeless but instead a reflection of all times past, present, and future, Isozaki's Team Disney Orlando is an elegantly rendered interpretation of the idea—complete with Mickey Mouse ears Goldberger calls "not just a logo but a true architectural element, so abstracted that they fit in comfortably with the rest of the architecture."
It's also impossible to talk about Disney in the '90s and not mention Celebration, Florida, the New Urbanist town that suggested it might be possible to market mixed-use, walkable urban planning to Disney fans. While books and articles about Celebration offered almost lurid readings of town rules and regulations (Disney-approved paint colors only, lawns manicured to a Magic Kingdom-esque standard), the town remains, without a doubt, the most impressive collection of postmodern architecture in the world. The Philip Johnson town hall, which renders the imposing columns of classical government buildings toothpick-skinny, the Cesar Pelli Googie movie theatre, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's bank rendered as 1950s diner, the Charles Moore preview center (now a Bank of America branch location) that looks, and this is meant as the utmost compliment, like the Winchester Mystery House. The homes sold to residents may be leaking and growing mold, but downtown Celebration is a marvel of postmodernism—if Disneyland's Main Street is a hyperreal interpretation of American history, Celebration's is a hyperreal version of the hyperreal itself.
Michael Eisner left Disney in 2005, just two years after the opening of the building that would come to define his architectural legacy, despite departing from the colorful exuberance of 1990s Disney design.
The building in question is Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, a downtown Los Angeles music venue built as the primary home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Gehry is a curious figure in the history of Disney architecture—he worked on several buildings at Disneyland Paris (originally known as Euro Disney). He was also the designer of Team Disney Anaheim, which opened in 1995 to mild amusement. "His Goofy," the Los Angeles Times said, "the signature character for the Team Disney Anaheim building, is little more than a splash of black swirls on the searing magenta walls of the atrium." Gehry was an obvious dream architect for Eisner's collection, but as an architect who resisted calling himself a postmodernist, it also follows that Gehry would never fully give himself over to the new Disney style.
The Disney Concert Hall opened to rave reviews. In Slate, Christopher Hawthorne called it "a fantastic piece of architecture—assured and vibrant and worth waiting for. It has its own personality, instead of being anything close to a Bilbao rehash," while in the Los Angeles Times, Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote that "the entire building functions as a seductive tool, luring the public into an increasingly intimate architectural experience." Legendary critic Herbert Muschamp's praise also came with the assertion that Gehry had been able to do what no other architect working under the Disney umbrella had yet accomplished—in this building, according to Muschamp, "a Surrealist ethos also suffuses the design: the imagineering impulse of Disney as well as of Magritte. Pumpkin into carriage, cabbage into concert hall, bippidi-bobbidi-boo." Benefiting from its architect's status, its function as a space for high art, and, crucially, the distance of several years (while Gehry was commissioned in 1988, design and construction delays meant it opened a solid decade after the height of Disney postmodernism), the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in the eyes of many, managed to be the rare building that was of Disney but not Disneyfied.
Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall
Earlier this spring, as I made the drive from Los Angeles to Anaheim, I remembered the specific thrill I used to get when, on trips to visit friends and relatives in Orange County and San Diego, I spied the back of the Matterhorn—a roller coaster set in a fantastical Alpine wonderland—while cruising down the 5 Freeway. An Alpine wonder rising above the hot concrete of Southern California felt delightfully incongruous and yet inexplicably right—if Southern California was a place where believing in something was enough to make it real, why shouldn't it feel normal to catch a glimpse of a Swiss fantasia at 75 miles per hour?
As we entered the park I was reminded of the fact that this was my first visit since getting an Instagram account, and, having left most of my inhibitions at the Mickey and Friends parking garage, I eagerly strode up Main Street, hoping there wouldn't be too much of a crowd at Sleeping Beauty's Castle. As we moved closer, I noticed that the castle wasn't itself, which is to say it wasn't there at all. Instead, a massive enclosure surrounded the landmark, and a sign informed visitors that a refurbishment was underway. At first the wrap-around looked blue, melting into the April sky, but as I moved closer I noticed a full scene painted on the flimsy structure. It was the castle, rendered not in a photograph but in swirly paint, like a still from Sleeping Beauty itself. I stopped just in front of Disneyland's bronze statue of Walt Disney, usually presiding over the castle but on this day the king of a disguised construction site.
Thirty years after the height of Disney's investment in postmodern architecture, here it was at last: a literal decorated shed, perfectly Disneyfied.
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package com.langwen.admin.dao;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import org.hibernate.Hibernate;
import org.hibernate.Query;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.langwen.admin.bean.Gxxw;
import com.ssh.HibernateSessionFactory;

public class GxxwDao {
	public void addGxxw(Gxxw gxxw) {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			Date date = new Date();
			SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
			String curdate = df.format(date);
			gxxw.setTianjiashijian(curdate);
			String hql = "select count(*) from Gxxw gw";
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			Long count = (Long) query.uniqueResult();
			Integer paixu = Integer.parseInt(count.toString()) + 1;
			gxxw.setPaixu(paixu);
			session.save(gxxw);
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
	}

	public void deleteGxxw(Integer id) {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			Gxxw gxxw = (Gxxw) session.load(Gxxw.class, id);
			int paixu = gxxw.getPaixu();
			session.delete(gxxw);
			String hql = "update Gxxw gw set gw.paixu = gw.paixu -1 where gw.paixu > "
					+ paixu;
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			query.executeUpdate();
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
	}

	public Gxxw loadGxxw(Integer id) {
		Gxxw gxxw = null;
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			gxxw = (Gxxw) session.get(Gxxw.class, id);
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
		return gxxw;
	}

	public List<Gxxw> allGxxw() {
		List<Gxxw> gxxws = null;
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			// String hql =
			// "SELECT jj FROM Gxxw as jj WHERE jj.zhiding=1 ORDER BY zhidingshijian DESC";
			String hql = "select new Gxxw(jj.id, jj.biaoti, jj.tianjiaren, jj.tianjiashijian, jj.ywlj, jj.gengxinren,jj.gengxinshijian, jj.leixing, jj.paixu) from Gxxw as jj ORDER BY paixu DESC ";
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			gxxws = query.list();
			transaction.commit();
			if (!Hibernate.isInitialized(gxxws)) {
				Hibernate.initialize(gxxws);
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
		return gxxws;
	}

	public List<Gxxw> allGxxwById() {
		List<Gxxw> gxxws = null;
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			// String hql =
			// "SELECT jj FROM Gxxw as jj WHERE jj.zhiding=1 ORDER BY zhidingshijian DESC";
			String hql = "from Gxxw as jj ORDER BY id ASC ";
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			gxxws = query.list();
			transaction.commit();
			if (!Hibernate.isInitialized(gxxws)) {
				Hibernate.initialize(gxxws);
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
		return gxxws;
	}

	public void updateGxxw(Gxxw gxxw) {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			if (gxxw.getPaixu() == null) {
				gxxw.setPaixu(loadGxxw(gxxw.getId()).getPaixu());
			}
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			session.update(gxxw);
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				transaction.rollback();
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
	}

	// ½«Ö¸¶¨µÄͼÊ飬ÅÅÐòÏòÏÂÒƶ¯Ò»Î»
	public void moveDownGxxw(Integer id) {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			Gxxw gxxw = (Gxxw) session.load(Gxxw.class, id);
			if (gxxw.getPaixu() == 1) {
				return; // ÒѾÅÅÔÚ×îÇ°Ãæ
			}
			int oldPaixu = gxxw.getPaixu();
			String hql = "update Gxxw gw set gw.paixu = gw.paixu + 1 where gw.paixu = "
					+ (oldPaixu - 1);
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				// transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			query.executeUpdate();
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				// transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			gxxw.setPaixu(oldPaixu - 1);
			updateGxxw(gxxw);
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
	}

	// ½«Ö¸¶¨µÄͼÊ飬ÅÅÐòÏòÉÏÒƶ¯Ò»Î»
	public void moveUpGxxw(Integer id) {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			Gxxw gxxw = (Gxxw) session.load(Gxxw.class, id);
			int oldPaixu = gxxw.getPaixu();
			String isMax = "select new Gxxw(jj.id) FROM Gxxw as jj WHERE jj.paixu = "
					+ (oldPaixu + 1);
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				// transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			Query quMax = session.createQuery(isMax);
			List<Gxxw> gl = quMax.list();
			if (gl.size() == 0) {
				return; // ÒѾÅÅÔÚ×îºóÃæ
			}
			String hql = "update Gxxw gw set gw.paixu = gw.paixu - 1 where gw.paixu = "
					+ (oldPaixu + 1);
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				// transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			query.executeUpdate();
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				// transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			gxxw.setPaixu(oldPaixu + 1);
			updateGxxw(gxxw);
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
	}

	// ÖØа´ÕÕÌí¼Óʱ¼äÅÅÐò
	public void rePaixuGxxw() {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		try {
			List<Gxxw> gxxws = allGxxwById();
			if (!session.isOpen()) {
				session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
				transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			}
			for (int i = 0; i < gxxws.size(); i++) {
				Gxxw temp = gxxws.get(i);
				temp.setPaixu(i + 1);
				session.update(temp);
				if (i % 20 == 0) {
					session.flush();
					session.clear();
				}
			}
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
	}

	public List<Gxxw> pageGxxw(int page) {
		Session session = HibernateSessionFactory.getSession();
		Transaction transaction = null;
		List<Gxxw> gxxws = null;
		try {
			transaction = session.beginTransaction();
			String hql = "select new Gxxw(jj.id, jj.biaoti, jj.tianjiaren, jj.tianjiashijian, jj.ywlj, jj.gengxinren,jj.gengxinshijian, jj.leixing, jj.paixu) from Gxxw as jj ORDER BY paixu DESC ";
			Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
			query.setFirstResult(10 * (page - 1));
			query.setMaxResults(10);
			gxxws = query.list();
			transaction.commit();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			if (transaction != null) {
				System.out.println("¡¾ÏµÍ³´íÎó¡¿Ôڳ־û¯¶ÔÏóʱ³ö´í£¬ÔÒòÊÇ£º");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		} finally {
			HibernateSessionFactory.closeSession();
		}
		return gxxws;
	}

	@Test
	public void testGxxw() {
		for (int i = 1; i < 122; i++) {
			Gxxw gxxw = new Gxxw();
			gxxw.setBiaoti("No." + i + " Gxxw");
			if (i % 3 == 0) {
				gxxw.setLeixing(1);
			} else if (i % 3 == 1) {
				gxxw.setLeixing(2);
			} else {
				gxxw.setLeixing(3);
			}
			addGxxw(gxxw);
		}
	}
}

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Bernanke's "stealth bailout" of RBC and other foreign banks.
To follow up on our earlier post about QE2 simply padding the excess reserves of precariously bankrupt financial institutions, I want to call attention to ZeroHedge's excellent reporting about QE2 amounting to nothing more than a foreign bank rescue operation.
Furthermore the data above proves beyond a reasonable doubt why there has been no excess lending by US banks to US borrowers: none of the cash ever even made it to US banks! This also resolves the mystery of the broken money multiplier and why the velocity of money has imploded.
Instead of repricing the EUR to a fair value, somewhere around parity with the USD, this stealthy fund flow from the US to Europe to the tune of $600 billion has likely resulted in an artificial boost in the european currency to the tune of 2000-3000 pips, keeping it far from its fair value of about 1.1 EURUSD.


I love crafting, all types. I have been all over this genre -- sewing, painting wooden birdhouses, making wreaths out of everything I could get my hands on, paper bag flowers, Christmas ornaments,etc. Then I discovered scrapbooking and my creative world changed forever.
I originally started out with bound 12x12 pages in albums, using the white page as background. This was OK, but not very satisfying. I took a few classes at my local scrapbook store and discovered the world of Tim Holtz. My first intro was using his Distress Ink, Weathered Wood. It was love, true love. I was hooked and never looked back. I have been an avid follower of his since he came unto the scene around 2003.
Just as scrapbooking as evolved, so have I. Luckily, I have graduated from those horrid plain white 12x12 pages to using amazing pre-printed paper, to making my own books, cards, paper, tags, and 3 dimensional objects.
I have recently discover wire wrapped jewelry and love it. I have made several rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets for family and friends. And I incorporate wire into my cards and multi media projects.


ASHBURN, Va. – Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden says "there's a lot of concern" over whether linebacker Perry Riley and safety Ryan Clark will play in Sunday's game against the Arizona Cardinals.
Neither player has practiced this week. Both were listed as questionable on the injury report Friday.
Gruden is more pessimistic about Riley's chances. Riley sprained the MCL in his left knee in Monday night's loss to Seattle. Clark is nursing two sprained ankles from the same game.
Grudcen said tight end Jordan Reed is "making great progress" from a pulled left hamstring and might play Sunday. Reed was injured in the season opener.
Reed was limited in practice Friday and is listed as questionable.


-Who wields a poem huger than the grave?
though all the weird worlds must be opened?
17 Sep	This entry was published on September 17, 2011 at 5:11 pm and is filed under Poetry by Jessie, Writings by Other Authors.	Bookmark the permalink.	Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
Perhaps one of the best reflections on my poem.


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Premier Weatherill is trying to distance himself from the marine parks mess by condemning the failed consultation process he implemented.
Mr. Weatherill was Environment Minister when the consultation process for the marine parks exclusion zones began in 2009 he designed and implemented the failed process.
Mr. Weatherill's promises of consultation have proven to be hollow with widespread anxiety felt throughout the community, particularly in regional areas.
Shadow Environment Minister Michelle Lensink said Mr. Weatherill could not wipe his hands of his own mess.
"Mr. Weatherill must take full responsibility for the botched marine parks consultation process." Ms. Lensink said.
"Public meetings held right across the State have exposed the Labor's marine parks program as ill-placed and heavy-handed." Ms. Lensink said.
"South Australia's fisheries are amongst the best managed and sustainable in the world and the State Liberals remain supportive of the sensible implementation and management of marine parks which will not hinder regional communities and South Australia generally." Ms. Lensink said.


Our website Fastmoversmiami.com is addressed to guide our users with access to top quality moving specialists in their area. The movers are pre-screened and tained in all facets of the change of address process. Let the Movers guide you with useful tips and an easy way to make moving simple. Contact them to get a free quote today and see how we can make a change.
To ensure that the relocation process is as trouble and stress free as we can make it, Local Movers provides a full packing and unpacking service. They will discuss your personal needs, customized to as much or as little as you require, thus ensuring that your move is accoumplished and well organized. From the dismantling of self-assembly furniture to the removal of fixtures and fittings to the actual wrapping and packing of your goods.The Moving Company works hard so you don't have to.


Gardens are unique expressions of a gardener's hand, just as works of art are unique to the artist's hand. Artworks featuring a reflection of the diversity of sensibilities, palate, and notions of beauty will be presented in this new exhibit. Our opening reception will feature floral interpretations by several members of local garden clubs.
This entry was posted on June 10, 2014, 5:11 pm and is filed under Exhibits, Main Street Gallery.


When a person dies, the soul departs from its body and is crystallized into a book. Written in that book are all the memories of that soul's life. For anyone who touches that book, the dead person's past can be relived.


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30 dead in fighting in Jamaica ghettos
May. 26, 2010 12:00 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Thousands of police and soldiers on Tuesday stormed the ghettos where reggae was born, in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.
The masked gunmen fighting for underworld boss Christopher "Dudus" Coke say he provides services and protection, all funded by a criminal empire that seemed untouchable until the U.S. demanded his extradition.
Coke has built a loyal following in Tivoli Gardens, the poor West Kingston slum that is his stronghold. U.S. authorities say he has been trafficking cocaine to the streets of New York City since the mid-1990s, hiring island women to hide the drugs on themselves on flights to the United States.
Called president and shortman by his supporters, Coke does not wear flashy clothes or hold court at Kingston nightclubs like other powerful gang bosses. The few published photographs of the 5-foot-4 Jamaican the U.S. Justice Department calls one of the world's most dangerous drug lords show an unassuming man with a potbelly.
On Tuesday, masked gunmen in West Kingston vanished down side streets barricaded with barbed wire and junked cars. The sound of gunfire echoed across the slums on Jamaica's southern coast, far from the tourist meccas of the northern shore.
Schools and businesses were closed across the capital and the government appealed for blood donations for the wounded.
At the epicenter of the violence are the West Kingston slums, known as garrisons, which include the Trenchtown ghetto where reggae superstar Bob Marley was raised.
The son of a suspected gangster, the 41-year-old Coke has strong ties to the governing Jamaica Labor Party, which has counted on gunmen inside his Tivoli Gardens slum to intimidate election rivals. By exposing the ties between gangs and politicians, some hope the explosion of violence will put Jamaica on a path to reform.


Gerald Veniard has taken line honours on the first leg of the 37th edition of La Solitaire Afflelou Le Figaro. Crossing the finish line at 18h31 last night the skipper of Scutum took 79 hours, 24 minutes and travelled at an average 7.43 knots over the 590-mile course from Cherbourg to Santander.
Veniard, who moved into the lead yesterday morning, battled it out alone in the tricky, decreasing breeze and managed to hold off his pursuers eventually finishing 23 minutes ahead.
The following three boats arrived in quick succession including Gilda Morvan (Cercle Vert) 23 minutes and 2 seconds astern, then Charles Caudrelier (Bostik) 24 minutes and 12 seconds behind, Armel le Cléac'h (Brit Air) 24 minutes and 36 seconds, and finally Yann Elies (Groupe Generali Assurances) 26 minutes and 50 seconds after the winner.
News has emerged this morning however, that Veniard will have to attend a jury hearing in St Gilles Croix de Vie and there's a possibility he'll have to take a time penalty for carrying extra weight contravening Rule RC 4.3.1.2.


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Sembcorp Industries, Chiyoda Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation Sign MOU to Explore Supply Chain Commercialisation of Decarbonised Hydrogen into Singapore
Singapore, Oct 04, 2021
Sembcorp Industries' (Sembcorp) subsidiary Sembcorp Utilities, Chiyoda Corporation (Chiyoda) and Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) have today signed a strategic collaboration Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the feasibility and implementation of a commercial-scale supply chain to deliver decarbonised hydrogen into Singapore, utilising Chiyoda's proven hydrogen storage and transportation technology "SPERA Hydrogen™".
In May 2021, the Japanese Government announced the Asia Energy Transition Initiative (AETI) that aims to support the achievement of sustainable economic growth and carbon neutrality in Asia, and the governments of Japan and Singapore have commenced dialogue on energy transition. Under the AETI, Japan will support Singapore's energy transition leveraged by Japanese companies' technology, such as Chiyoda's "SPERA Hydrogen™" and commercialisation thereof.
Chiyoda has developed the "SPERA Hydrogen™" technology to release hydrogen from Methylcyclohexane (MCH1). MCH is a type of liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC2) that appears to be a more suitable hydrogen carrier, in particular for its safety and compatibility with existing industrial infrastructure.
This MOU represents a strategically important step in the potential creation of a commercial-scale global supply chain for decarbonised hydrogen into Singapore. The parties intend to undertake joint efforts to explore the most cost-effective hydrogen production in offshore locations for subsequent hydrogenation in these selected locations, and to ultimately ship MCH to Singapore for use.
The specific roles of each party are as follows:
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp)
Sembcorp is one of the largest Singapore homegrown renewable energy players with more than 3,300 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy capacity globally. The company's renewable energy portfolio comprises wind, solar and energy storage in key markets such as Singapore, Vietnam, China, India and the UK.
The participation in the MOU enables Sembcorp to potentially:
1) Perform use tests via its domestic power generation assets by blending carbon-neutral hydrogen with natural gas to decarbonise power generation
2) Supply carbon-neutral hydrogen to customers both within and outside Singapore's Jurong Island for fuel, chemical feedstock and other applications
3) Support the growth of demand for the emerging hydrogen segment in Singapore and other markets.
Chiyoda Corporation (Chiyoda)
Chiyoda is committed to being an 'Innovative' Engineering Company, shaping the future of energy and the global environment with "SPERA Hydrogen™", the world's first technology to safely store hydrogen under ambient temperature and pressure in large quantities for long periods of time and to transport hydrogen over long distances in the form of Methylcyclohexane (MCH).
Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi)
As an integrated global business enterprise the commitment to delivering economic value, environmental value and societal value is at the foundation of Mitsubishi Corporation's Corporate Vision. Mitsubishi will leverage its experience in global energy and infrastructure business development to play a leading role in the commercialisation of the overall supply chain aimed to deliver decarbonised hydrogen to Singapore.
1. MCH is a liquid produced from toluene and hydrogen, which can be in a liquid state from -130°C to 100°C, therefore, can be handled as a liquid under ambient temperature and pressure. It is widely used in many fields and products, for instance, as a solvent for correction fluids.
2. LOHC is an organic compound that can absorb and release hydrogen through chemical reaction.
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ABOUT SEMBCORP INDUSTRIES
(Company registration: 199802418D)
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) is a leading energy and urban solutions provider, driven by its purpose to do good and play its part in building a sustainable future. Headquartered in Singapore, Sembcorp leverages its sector expertise and global track record to deliver innovative solutions that support the energy transition and sustainable development. Sembcorp has a balanced energy portfolio of over 12,800MW, with more than 3,300MW of renewable energy capacity comprising solar, wind and energy storage globally. The company also has a proven track record of transforming raw land into sustainable urban developments, with a project portfolio spanning over 12,000 hectares across Asia.
Sembcorp is listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. It is a component stock of the Straits Times Index and sustainability indices including the FTSE4Good Index and the iEdge SG ESG indices. For more information, please visit www.sembcorp.com.