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The letter of the week is J – and I have been thinking of J for JOIN -

Join SecondLife (www.secondlife.com) it is free

Join an event

Join a game. Join objects together e.g. as on this picture, the objects the hair is build of, are joined together, so the hair can be added or removed in one ‘go’.

Join  the life, join the club, join the Petunia Letter blog

Black Friday doesn’t have to be so black, join one of my programs on this blog, leave me a comment with your referral link  that you joined under me, and I will join one of yours with the referral link you left.  One affiliate helping another, and I will be active like I am sure you will.  Just another way we all can help each other gain the income we all desperately need in this economy. Peace to all and yours, and be safe!

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Two great companies have teamed up to bring the best of both world. Lego brings its plastic bricks to MUJI’s lovely stationary. The creation is a cross between a toy and an origami.

Getver! Wat zien zij eruit! Zo ongezond en  moet je hun buikjes zien! Die zijn zó opgezwollen. Ze hebben toch niet teveel gegeten?

Nee.

Hongerige Afrikaanse kinderen hebben niet teveel gegeten.

Beelden over de armoede in Afrika die via de televisie onze huiskamers binnenkomen. Ook bij mij wekken ze weerzin op.
In eerste instantie, omdat ik niet kan begrijpen dat armoede op zo’n schaal nog kan bestaan in deze wereld. Ik luister nu muziek vanaf mijn Ipod, zit op mijn laptop een blog te tikken voor het internet, heb ondertussen de televisie aan staan, drie grote lampen zorgen voor voldoende licht in mijn kamer en de verwarming staat op 20 graden. Met een grote kop warme chocolademelk zit ik mij af te vragen wat mij zo ergert aan die hongerige Afrikanen.

Nou…..dat dus. Die absurde tegenstelling.

Het is niet de enige reden voor mijn weerzin. Het wil  in mijn botte hersenen gewoon niet doordringen dat hongerige kindertjes in beeld brengen de enige manier is om de armoede in Afrika bespreekbaar te maken. Het ís ook niet de enige manier. Toch wil het journaille dat ons wel doen geloven.

Nu ik  zo op mijn laptop aan het tikken ben, schiet mij ineens het bezoek te binnen van Bram Vermeulen aan onze school. Zeven jaar lang was hij correspondent in Zuidelijk Afrika en kwam ons daar iets over vertellen.

En verdraaid! Hij kwam met hele nieuwe ideeën over Afrika. Journalistieke ideeën over Afrika wel te verstaan. En nee, dan heb ik het niet over het gepruts van de mensen van JOIN, maar échte journalistiek. Reportages die de ogen van de wereldbevolking eindelijk openen. Waar mensen het gevoel van krijgen: “Hier moeten we wat tegen doen!” Met alle respect, maar de journalisten van JOIN schrijven voor het grootste gedeelte ‘leukige’ artikelen. Wie zit hier nu op te wachten? ………

 Juist. Dat dacht ik al.

Vermeulen’s idee speelt meer in op de geluiden die we steeds vaker horen als het gaat om hulp aan derdewereldlanden. “Ik geef niets meer aan goede doelen die hulp bieden aan ontwikkelingslanden. Het geld komt toch vaak niet op de goede plaats terecht. Het verdwijnt in de zakken van corrupte leiders.”

Over dit geluid heb ik het. Helaas een terecht geluid waar journalisten toch echt wat meer aandacht aan mogen besteden.

En het is niet eens zo lastig.  Zijn idee. Vermeulen voerde het uit en maakte verbazingwekkende journalistiek. Hij sprak met een steenrijke Afrikaan in Zimbabwe en volgde hem. Vermeulen reed samen met hem naar een van zijn villa’s, langs zijn peperdure collectie auto’s en voorbij juichende aanhangers van de Afrikaan die overigens als een god leeft in het land. De enige twee vragen die in mij opkwamen bij het zien van Vermeulen’s reportage waren: “Hoe is het mogelijk?”  en “Wie laat dit toe?” Ik voelde een verlangen om het leven van die rijke Afrikaan zuur te maken.

Erg zuur.

Terug naar de hongerige Afrikaanse kinderen. Natuurlijk filmen journalisten deze kinderen. Dit teken van armoede kost immers de minste moeite om op te sporen. In sommige landen hoef je alleen maar om te kijken en je ziet het al. Mensen hebben honger.

Treurig dat de meeste journalisten met deze beelden genoegen nemen. Ze zullen zich wel afvragen waardoor de armoede komt en waarschijnlijk komen ze ook nog wel op het idee dat het gedoneerde geld ergens wordt achtergehouden, maar ze doen er niets mee. Wellicht vanwege het gevaar voor eigen leven, want dat is wel aanwezig als je in landen als Zimbabwe kritsch bent.

Beelden van een rijke corrupte Afrikaan roepen bij mij gevoelens op. Andere dan bij hongerige kinderen. “Sluit hem op! Oppakken en neem hem al zijn rijkdom af”. Dat is wat het bij mij oproept. En niet het opgedrongen medelijden dat ik moet krijgen van korte filmpjes van UNICEF. Niet dat zulke filmpjes mij niets meer doen, maar je sluit je op een gegeven moment af van de emoties die bij zo’n filmpje horen.

ZAP!  Andere zender. En weg is het Afrikaantje.

Zo gemakkelijk. Maar zo gemakkelijk MAG het niet zijn.

Journalisten; schrijf geen leuke artikelen over ontwikkelingslanden die nog het meest door ONS gelezen worden. Neem ook niet alleen maar hongerige kinderen in beeld. Neem je verantwoordelijkheid en stalk die rijke stinkerd.

Stalk hem, totdat hij publiekelijk kan worden berecht voor zijn misdaden.

Zach is shutting down cpfanatic!!

SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Help what is our new chat gonna be?? Cooki or Teh Chillout or WHAT!?!?!??!?

HELP THIS IS HELL

HE DISABLED LOTS OF PEOPLE TOO D:

sorry by axsidently hit uniform and join catogorys when i was just trying to get it in the uniform catogory ill get it fixed as soon as i can

the uniform is the secret agent glasses and suit the ninja mask and any type of shoe the uniform will change every 2 monthes so check the website often.

I was fortunate enough to be one of the 120 or so delegates at the UK’s first ever Recruitment Unconference yesterday hosted by Bill Boorman at Barclays Tower, London.

WOW, was it a conference unlike any!  With an eclectic mix of Social Media Experts, HR gurus, Recruitment Consultants and IT Whizzes in the amazing Green-Pod room, the unstructured format of the “conference-that-isn’t” led to many hearty debates on the various threaded topics which included:

• Sourceology with Geoff Webb (@radicalrecruit) and Katharine Robinson (@TheSourceress)
• Social Media Circus with Matt Alder (@mattalder) and Paul Harrison (@CarveConsulting)
• Blogging for Business with Andy Headworth (@andyheadworth)

There were many more and you can find out more about the event here and hear the broadcast here but I thought I’d share with you my top three takeaways (and you can rest assured there were many more!) that I took away from the day:

1. Social Media & Recruitment = Value for Money

Thank you Jacqui Hill for sharing that one of your clients in the Public sector has reduced their cost per applicant from £400 to £15 by the use of Social Media in resourcing and also to another Global Business for the stat that they’ve saved £150K by social media strategies alone.  Statistics like these really can’t be ignored and it’s no surprise therefore that Recruitment Consultants, Ad Agencies and Job Boards are wondering what their role will be as Social Media and Web 2.0 evolves.

2. Social Media & Recruitment = A tool for LISTENING as well as communicating

Thank you too to William Fischer of TwitterJobs (and this month’s Esquire Magazine) for outlining how the business  breaks down and measures their Social Media Strategy into 9 scales including things such as PR, SEP, research and product development.  How often do you use Social Media that way?  If it’s a communication tool, then surely you should also be listening and engaging?  And for the uninitiated (like me) it was a revelation to hear about “Active Listening Tools” that can do that stuff for you!  Amazing!

3. Social Media & Recruitment – Engagement

Just by writing on your blog, Facebook profile or Tweeting doesn’t actually make you someone people automatically want to listen to – you need to truly engage to get the most out of the experience and show you’re human with real points of view and real ideas and perceptions.  Permanently retweeting what others say, blogging sporadically and confusing your messages will all result in one thing – NOTHING.   You need to engage with others.

For more information about the Recruitment Unconference then check out the various tweets and blog posts which can be found at #trulondon. I can’t wait for the follow up!!!

Michelle Fischer
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1. Write a Java program to create three threads namely A, B, C and make them run one after another. (C has to run after B completes, B has to run after A completes).
2. What happens when a thread calls notify() but no thread(s) is waiting?
3. How will you declare a timer variable that will be accessed by multiple threads very frequently?
4. How will you synchronize static variables?

5. What happens when threads are waiting, but never being notified?

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ANSWERS:

1. Many ways to do it. I prefer join(). When a thrad A calls b.join(), then A runs only after thread b completes. So, for this problem, C has to call b.join() and B has to call a.join()
2. Actually…, nothing the notify() call simply returns.
3. Declare the variable as volatile. Every thread caches a copy of instance variable, work with local copy, and then sync it with master copy. But, threads do not cache a copy of volatile instance variable.
4. Obtain class level lock. synchronized( obj.getClass()) {……..}
5. Leaving the answer to readers!

It’s no surprise that the way we communicate with people is changing.  Some call it the Communication Revolution and it’s characterised largely by the use of Web 2.0 technology and websites such as Linked In and Facebook, otherwise known as Social Media.

With this in mind, Linda Parkinson-Hardman of Grow a Better Business, and I, Michelle Fischer of Creative Leadership, invite you to complete the attached questionnaire about your use of Social Media when Recruiting.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9m00FDmhA781rOYugN7hnw_3d_3d

We have set a closing date for completion of this of Friday 18th December 2009.

The results of this research will be used to produce a White Paper that explores the key trends and themes around this topical subject and we’d be thrilled to share this with you.  Please indicate your interest in this at the end of the questionnaire.

Needless to say, the more participants involved the better and we invite you also to forward this link to people you think would benefit from taking part and the research findings themselves.  We are pleased to offer a prize of a bottle of Frances’ finest champagne to one of the lucky participants who will be chosen at random at the conclusion of this research.

We’d like to thank you in advance for sparing the time to contribute to this research project.

Best wishes

Michelle Fischer
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1) Send Free SMS from YouMint.

As a YouMint member, you can send Free SMS

to your friends. You can send more Free SMSs to them if they are on YouMint as well! So go ahead and invite all your friends to YouMint so you can send them Free SMSs.

More Invites = More Free SMSs. The more people you have in your network the more Free SMSs you can send everyday.

2) Get Paid for Incoming SMS and Emails. You get FULL control over how many, at what time and about what!

When you sign up with us, you will start receiving relevant promotional messages based on the number of messages you specify and the time you want to receive them. Each time you receive an SMS you will get paid for it! Each time you open the YouMint Cash Mail, you get paid.

3) Get Paid for promos sent to your network on YouMint.

You can invite your friends to join YouMint and we will pay you every time they interact with a promotion too! We’re not kidding! We pay for you for your direct referrals and for your referrals’ referrals as well.

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Here’s what YOU get each time a Promo SMS is delivered to or a YouMint Cash Email is opened by:

- YOU – Rs 0.20
- Your Referral – Rs 0.10
- Your Referrals’ Referral – Rs 0.05

So, if you have lots of friends, who have a lot of friends, you could make a lot of money each time a promotion is done. Even if we send everyone ONLY 1 promo a day, you stand to earn Rs. 666 every month. OK, OK, here’s the math again

a) 1 promo x 30 days x Rs.0.20 per promo = Rs 6
b) 1 promo x 30 days x Rs.0.10 per promo x 20 friends = Rs 60
c) 1 promo x 30 days x Rs.0.05 per promo x 400 friends (assuming each of your twenty friends successfully referred 20 friends each)= Rs.600

So, Rs 6 + Rs 60+ Rs 600 adds up to a cool Rs 666!

So basically, you make enough to at least cover your mobile bill . If you are a popular person with lots of pals, you will make lots more. Else if you are the kind who walks around with the phone permanently attached to your ear, you better start making more friends so that you can cover that bill.

3) Introduce your friends and get paid when they join and when their friends join!

To get you started with minting money on YouMint, on popular demand, we will pay you a very small amount each time someone joins your network. We will pay you Rs 0.50 each time a friend you referred signs up and Rs. 0.25 when your friend’s friend signs up.

YES! We actually pay you for getting friends signed up to this service!

This payout is only meant to get your earnings started on YouMint.

This is a limited period offer only though so make the most of it while it lasts.

Today’s suggestion is one that I won’t be getting involved in. Sure, it is an amusing suggestion and I’m sure that some of the results of it would be funny. However, I have better things to do with my time.

The suggestion is to join in pie-throwing at politicians. This is meant to be an amusing way of protesting what you don’t agree with and drawing media attention to the plight of whatever it might be you are protesting. Not for me.

For more information on pie-throwing, visit:

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Recently we had a story which involved improving one of our data models. The table for the model had grown quite wide and we wanted to improve normalization and performance. We wanted to move a few columns from our original table (Listing) to a new table with the primary key of the new table (ListingLocation) also being a foreign key to the primary key of the original table, our one-to-one relationship. I will try to detail how we accomplished this change using a simplified example. Source code is linked at the bottom of this post.

Here is the entity relationship diagram of the old, single table structure:

And here is the entity relationship diagram of the new, two table structure:

As you can see, it is a very simple example of a very common relationship in the database. However, what we found when implementing this in Hibernate was not a simple as I had hoped.

To get started here is the SQL used to represent our new tables:

CREATE TABLE Listing
(
id BIGINT(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
price DECIMAL(10,2),
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) TYPE = INNODB;

CREATE TABLE ListingLocation
(
listingID BIGINT(20) NOT NULL,
address VARCHAR(255),
PRIMARY KEY(listingID),
INDEX (listingID),
FOREIGN KEY (listingID) REFERENCES Listing (id)
) TYPE = INNODB;


I’ve used MySQL for this example because it is free and easy to setup. InnoDB table types have been because they allow foreign keys, which is crucial to this example.

Our old Listing entity was pretty basic; it looked something like this (imports & getters/setters excluded):

@Entity
@Table
public class Listing implements Serializable {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
private long id;
@Column(columnDefinition= "DECIMAL(10,2)")
private double price;
private String address;
...

In this case, creating a new instance of Listing and persisting it is very easy. When we split the entities, it becomes a little more complicated. Here is what our entities looked like after being split:

@Entity
@Table
public class Listing implements Serializable {
@Id
@GeneratedValue
private long id;
@Column(columnDefinition= "DECIMAL(10,2)")
private double price;
@OneToOne
@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn
private ListingLocation listingLocation;
...

and

@Entity
@Table
public class ListingLocation implements Serializable {
@Id
@Column(name = "listingID")
private Long id;
private String address;
...


The differences are not large, but there are a couple important points to note:

• Adding ListingLocation to Listing with @OneToOne & @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn annotations tells Hibernate the Listing has a one-to-one mapping with ListingLocation by using the Primary Key as the join column.
• Adding @Id & @Column(name = “listingID”) annotations to our id field in ListingLocation tells Hibernate that id is, well, an ID, but that column should not be called “id” in the DB, but “listingID” as that will help an observer see the relationship quickly without looking closely at the schema. Also, it is good to note that the @GeneratedValue is not on “id” in ListingLocation as it is in Listing as we want to specify exactly what goes in that field.

The biggest gripe I have with using the one-to-one relationship is that we can no longer save Listing only. Our REAL Listing entity is far more complex with several relationships, but this was the first one-to-one relationship with Hibernate. Previously we could do something like:

Listing listing = new Listing();
listing.setPrice(price);
listing.setAddress(address);
listing.setFoo(foo); // where foo is a @OneToMany annotated entity
...
session.save(listing);

Now, we must save Listing and ListingLocation separately like this:

ListingLocation listingLocation = new ListingLocation();
listingLocation.setAddress(address);
Listing listing = new Listing();
listing.setPrice(price);
listing.setListingLocation(listingLocation);
...
session.save(listing);
if (listing.getListingLocation() != null) {
listing.getListingLocation().setId(listing.getId());
session.save(listing.getListingLocation()); // save ListingLocation
}


I guess I’m just a bit spoiled, but I was hoping that this would bit more automatic, as it is with the one-to-many/many-to-one relationships.

I have written a small app that uses these two entities and inserts a row into each table, the link is available at the bottom of this post. The config (hibernate.cfg.xml) expects that you have MySQL running on 127.0.0.1 with a DB named ‘OneToOneDemo’ with a user named ‘root’ and a password of ‘password’; I have included the SQL (Setup-OneToOneDemo.sql) to setup the DB. Just extract the contents of the archive, navigate to the project directory, and from the command line/terminal run:

mvn clean compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=com.point2.onetoonedemo.App -e


You should see the following output:

@OneToOne @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn Hibernate Demo
----------------------------------------------
...
Hibernate:
insert into Listing (price) values (?)

Hibernate:
insert into ListingLocation (address, listingID) values (?, ?)
Saved listing ID: 1


Download Source Code (12 KB .ZIP)

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions on how to do better accomplish one-to-one Hibernate mappings, I would love to hear about them. If you have any problems getting the code to compile and/or run, please let me know and I will make the necessary changes. Everything should just work, providing you modify the hibernate config or setup your DB. I had a difficult time finding complete and recent documentation on this subject so I hope this post and the maven project will help.

By: Damien Gabrielson

I DARTY1000 am joining this blog for many reasons.

1. I am great friends with nextthousand.

2. We are called NEXTDARTY and work in computers and that kind of stuff.

3.Nextthousand chose me to join.

          Well comment on what you think of me joining.

                                       -Darty1000

Interested, curious, wondering…these words sum up many peoples’ attitude to Freemasonry. But why now, in a fast paced techno world, why this interest in a Fraternity that dates back centuries and some say even further?

I guess for many people its that longing for a secure community, where there is trust and a minimised chance of conflict because we are not allowed to talk about politics or religion. It is a chance to develop as a person in a setting which insists on the highest ethics and being made to constantly aspire to living by timeless virtues. Its about everything that was good and wholesome of the “old days”.

In addition, the Craft has become more open, much of the myths are being dispelled which previously polluted the image of Freemasonry. People are realizing that we support each person’s duty to worship according to their own customs.  More and more established religions are starting to realise that most of the Grand Lodges of which the Irish Grand Lodge is one, is not incompatible with any world religion, although Freemasonry is not in favour of infringement of human freedom or dignity. More and more conspiracy theorist’s wild views seem carzier than ever before. Academic masonic authors have done much to illuminate the Craft in its true light. Increasingly the pseudo academic exposer’s who previously and still benefitt from books, appearance fees etc where they promise to highlight this “great evil” are losing ground as knowledge banishes myth. In old days that would be the group looking at the end of the map shouting there be monsters, while now it is clear its just more sea and more land.

Another important reason for this new attitude is that increasingly, Freemasons themselves are better educated in their own Craft and have started talking about it to their families and friends, once again illustrating that Freemasons are not some dark Cabaal of faceless manipulators.

People are starting to understand that many of the Craft is not “ruled” by the higher degrees as many alledge, but rather that each Lodge is autonomous within certain sometimes boring administration structure of the Grand Lodge. It is strange that the so called exposers never realised this fact, which they should have, but maybe they were too busy chasing personal fame and glory to notice, but who are we to judge.

What is interesting is that more and more there is interest from the ladies to join the Craft. I am personly in favour of ladies Lodges.

In modern times, Lodges use adverts, notice boards, welcome boards and even web sites to make the opportunity of joining known to potentially interested people. The key concept however remains that the potential candidate must take the first step.