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I recently chatted with the amazing editor Kylee Wall Pena for our episode on women in the visual effects (VFX) and post-production industries. Kylee's an outspoken advocate for women and diversity in the film industry, and she lent us some great perspective.
Caroline: Introduce yourself! How'd you wind up in your job?
Kylee: I'm a workflow supervisor at a company that manages workflow and dailies for TV and film. What that means is that a TV show or a movie will hire us to manage everything that happens from the camera, through the editing, and then through to the finishing, which includes VFX and color and everything that has to do with delivery. Every show is different and involves different people and needs, so I'm there to keep a handle on everything, test things before the show starts and facilitate communication.
"Dailies" is an old film term and it is a pretty big component of the job from day to day - when they shoot stuff on set, it comes to us on hard drives usually, and we manage that media and also create lower resolution media that's all synced up with audio and organized. This usually happens overnight, then the editors can come in the following morning and start working right away. Later on, this low resolution media will be replaced with the original media from the camera. Keeping it lower quality allows them to deal with a lot of media and get it more quickly.
I got this job through networking in Atlanta when I lived there. Every job I've gotten was from a connection; I've never just applied and entered the interview process that way. Most of the jobs in the entertainment industry are like that. Before this job, I was an editor for six years, after I finished college. After those six years spent editing corporate and then news/documentary and reality programming, I wanted to go into scripted television, and the timing was right to leave my editing job. So I got a job with the company I'm at now as a production assistant and then worked my way up to a technician and then supervisor.
C: What's going on in the post-production industry that's creating such upheaval - companies getting shuttered, jobs sent overseas - when it seems like every movie NEEDS VFX?
K: The VFX industry has a variety of problems but I think the main issue has been that there isn't enough highly paid work in the US to support big VFX companies. They can't compete with foreign tax subsidies, or small shops that can charge less because of the lower overhead to operate. If you're a one-man shop, you don't have to pay for the things a large company pays for, but you might be just as able to finish the work satisfactorily as the big corporation. You're more flexible, and your profit margins don't have to be so high to keep going. So the disappearing profit margins have wrecked a lot of the old mainstay VFX houses. And I think that's happening in ways for a lot of companies, in the entertainment industry and beyond. But I think a big part of that is these companies haven't evolved and figured out new ways to run their businesses to compete with other organizations.
A big issue is that there's this concept in the VFX world that you make a fixed bid on a job, and if you go over that bid, you're responsible for the overrun. Like you might tell a studio or production company that you can do all the effects for their movie for $10,000, but then it ends up needing $15,000 worth of work and there's not necessarily any negotiation upward. That really sucks. So a formerly large VFX company like Rhythm and Hues, who won the Oscar for VFX for Life of Pi the same year they filed for bankruptcy and laid off all the artists that worked on the film, has to bid on these jobs at a fixed price that is way lower than what they should charge to keep their doors open, and then they're constantly losing money on the job.
There are deeper aspects of this that people who are in deep with VFX and actually stood with the union to protest would offer, but that's my overview of the situation.
C: What aspects of the post-production industry prove difficult for parents and families?
K: A major challenge for parents and families in the post-production industry is the unpredictability of the days and the required long hours. For freelance editors, a standard day is 10 hours. If you work on set, it's 12. Unions have done a lot to guarantee fair wages and overtime, but there are lots of non-union jobs, and they take advantage of people. People who work on set have a standard TWELVE-hour day, five or six days a week! It's just the way the culture has been built, in part because they want to squeeze every last bit of work out of you in as few days as possible, partially because creativity often benefits from a marathon session.
There's also a culture of not wanting to go against the grain because they'll hire someone else. If you put up a fight and demand an eight-hour day, they probably won't hire you for a job because there are a dozen other people that'll fill that role. Or if you are working a gig and you want to leave at a certain time, many people look at you as not being a team player even if you are getting your work done and doing it better. And a lot of people might have heard the phrase "fix it in post" - that's not a joke, a lot of stuff runs downhill, and people in post end up having to fix stuff at the last minute, which can really mess up your day or week or weekend. It is expected that you will do whatever it takes to make a deadline.
And being a parent or not also can change how people think of you in post production. Knowing the culture of late nights and long days, the people who hire staff may avoid people with children. This is particularly true of women. Men with children are often not thought of as a flight risk because it's assumed they have a woman around to take care of the kids. But I've talked to high-level female editors who have cut some of the biggest films of the last 10 years, and they've told me they've been asked in interviews if they have children! That's SO illegal, but it happens a lot. And we have to go with it sometimes to get ahead. At the same time, I know of some female editors who work with good companies and requested certain work hours in order to be home with children, and those companies comply because they know the value of good, happy editors.
I think people outside the entertainment industry will see some patterns reflected here that happen in all jobs - women are judged harsher for having children, and large companies are requiring more and more from people with no regard for their childcare needs.
C: I've read about a bro-y culture in tech in general, but in post-production and VFX environments in particular. Does this culture have an effect on workers and ultimately what viewers see on screen?
K: In post production there is generally less of an outright BRO culture. It's more an institutional sexism and gender bias that is pervasive in post - a lot of people that think they aren't sexist and don't see or acknowledge the barriers keeping women away. That's almost harder to deal with than outright sexism in many ways, since it's not so blatant as someone smacking your ass or cat-calling you. It's more like the little voice in your head that assumes a woman is a receptionist instead of an executive producer when you walk in the door of a media company.
This sexist culture has a major effect on workers, and then on what viewers see on screen. According to research from San Diego State University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, there's something like 18 to 20 percent of post jobs filled by women, on average. Coincidentally, I once read an article written by Geena Davis that suggested that the number of women we typically see on screen, in a crowd of extras for example, is usually about 18 percent. This has become the normal amount for women in these places. If you have more than 18 percent, the perception is that women are dominating the scene or the room. San Diego State also releases annual research about the number of women in front of and behind the camera, with abysmally low numbers going back 20 years, despite the perception that things are getting better - again, we're talking about it more, so people think it's been solved. The reality is that male speaking characters far outnumber female speaking characters. Male characters' jobs are almost always defined, but women may not even be named characters - if their jobs are disclosed on screen, it's something typically "female." All these things persist stereotypes about women.
And it comes from the people making the show. The Directors Guild of America recently released a diversity report that looked at 4,000 episodes of television across 220 series on network and cable television. Only 16 percent of these episodes were directed by women. And 27 of the series had ZERO female directors all season. Just 19 of the series listed hired women or minorities to direct 40 percent or more of the episodes. Going back to San Diego State University's research, on broadcast programs with no women executive producers, females accounted for 37 percent of major characters. On programs with at least one woman executive producer, females comprised 43 percent of major characters. On broadcast programs with no women executive producers, women accounted for 6 percent of writers. On programs with at least one woman executive producer, women comprised 32 percent of writers.
There's a pattern here - women hire women, and they put women on screen to inspire other women. But for women to get to the point where they can hire, they have to make it through a tricky pipeline - that's why diversity efforts are so important. Another interesting anecdote: The showrunner for The Shield found that the female writers weren't speaking up anymore in the writer's room. He found out that the reason was because they were constantly being interrupted by the men. When they spoke up, they were seen as being too emotional or aggressive. So the showrunner banned interruptions in the writers room.
C: Are the factors keeping women out unique to VFX/post-production, or is it the same ol' story that we hear about STEM jobs in general?
K: There are unique aspects to post production that require its own initiatives to get women in the pipeline - it's an odd cross section of creativity and engineering, and it's got very specific challenges from day to day. That said, the most basic aspects of gender bias that keep women out of these fields can be applied to pretty much any industry where women are a minority. There's an institutional sexism that keeps women out - men (and women) make assumptions about what women want: they don't want to work these hours because they want to have kids, they don't like dealing with computers, they aren't interested in this stuff. The idea a lot of people get is that if women wanted to do it, they would, but that's false. If you look at enrollment in media programs like USC or NYU film schools, or the media program at Savannah College of Art and Design (which is a large college for more media, less film type education), the numbers are 50-50 male-female. Women are interested, and there is a bias against hiring them that is often so internalized, you don't even realize you're doing it.
For example, women are often judged more harshly than men. Their resumes might get a closer look. If they speak up, they're seen as aggressive - while an outspoken man is seen as authoritative. There's a delicate tight rope walk women have to do, balancing between being a door mat and being aggressive. Women aren't usually looked at for promotions because it's assumed they're happy where they are or they don't want the additional work since they'll likely care for children, so they have to constantly remind people they want to keep moving. Being a minority, you're under higher scrutiny to succeed - if you fail, it's "the woman sucks," so you represent your whole gender. That's a lot of work on top of the already difficult post-production industry, where things are constantly changing and the demand on your work is through the roof. Add on the fact that society still dictates that women are caretakers and take on more of the household work even if they have a partner that works - something that the women internalize just as much as men - and you can see how the women who do get hired might not make it up the pipeline.
It's hard to make it to the table for an interview because of the bias. It's hard to stay in the pipeline because of a bias. It's an upward battle for women, even if they have no desire to have kids anytime soon. But it's hard to make anyone acknowledge their own casual sexism because it doesn't feel tangible. But I found that once people do begin to realize these patterns are happening, they recognize it and can correct it. And a major solution to this is to just force your company, if you're in such a position, to seek out female candidates. Look at them all closely, and commit to hiring many of them.
A lot of articles and panels about women in film talk about how women can change to fit in better with this world, and some of the advice is good if it means getting yourself back to acting like yourself at work. It means not laughing at a man's joke if it's not funny. Or not apologizing when it's not your fault. But only if that's how you WANT to act. So much of this advice places the blame on women, when the truth of the matter is that women have to be hired, and that is difficult in fields dominated by men - men hire people that they know and people that look like them. To hire a woman is to go against the grain right now - and it needs to be normal.
C: What are some good ways to attract and keep more women in VFX/post-production?
K: Merely having a diverse staff, a mix of minorities and genders, is a great way to attract women in the post production industry. A diverse staff works better together and creates better work. And it becomes self-correcting in that the gender or racial bias that persists falls to the wayside when so many of the people you work with have their own experiences to share. By changing your culture to be inherently more accepting and interesting, you create a more friendly environment with fewer institutionalized barriers. Of course you can also add other support systems - flexible work hours, health care, child care - but in post production that would be a major endeavor. So I stick to the basics: Hire women. Hire minorities. Lots of them. Consider correcting the numbers your own moral imperative, and the rest will work itself out.
C: Why should we (and our general population of lady listeners) care about getting more women into the industry and about the conditions of that industry?
K: As you can see from my cited research, women behind the scenes means more women in stories ON screen. It means more female characters that are interesting and flawed and real, and have all kinds of jobs. Female characters that may choose to have children or not, get married or not. They might make huge mistakes or have huge successes. They might talk about things that people have had a hard time talking about. And that will normalize the conversation when it comes to "women's" topics. It creates role models for young women in all kinds of fields. How many young women have told Gillian Anderson they went into science because of her character on The X-Files? Lots and lots. Television and film is not life or death (although many studios or executives might tell you otherwise), but it has a HUGE impact on how young women (and men) see themselves. While we work on diversity within our own post-production teams, that will trickle outward into the media we create, and that will help correct the gender bias that hurts women in all kinds of industries.
To hear more from Kylee, check out her personal blog and her work for Creative Cow.


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The Cup goes to Chelsea then, and all the praise goes to Guus Hiddink for his miraculous achievement of winning the cup with a squad packed with internationals.
Now I'm not knocking him, he seems like a thoroughly decent bloke and one that would be of benefit to the Premier League should he return, but the praise he is receiving is a bit over the top considering he inherited one of the best squads in Europe. Their main problem seemed to be that the players didn't like their last manager \'big Phil' Scolari and, if tabloid rumour is to be believed, refused to play for him.
Therefore all \'big' Guus needed to do was turn on the Dutch charm and massage those huge egos that are found in the Stamford Bridge dressing room. Perhaps compliment them on their hair, their flashy cars or latest Gucci man bag?
Whatever he said it worked on Saturday, well from 25 seconds onwards. Louis Saha reminded everyone that when he isn't on the treatment table he can play, smashing a volley past Peter Cech in the opening minute. Unfortunately for Everton it came 89 minutes too early and, stunned at the thought of hanging on to a lead for 89 minutes, they proceeded to sit back and let Chelsea play. And play they did, winning the game with a spectacular strike from Lampard.
For Everton the defeat looked hard to take. The fans, cooking in the afternoon sun, haven't tasted success for 14 years and sang like they really wanted it. "Our biggest game" and "my greatest achievement" were some of the quotes from the players before the match.
Champion of wig-sellers everywhere, Marouane Fellaini, ran off the pitch in tears at the final whistle, though that could be because his mid-season promise not to get a hair-cut until the end of the season now means the scissors are not far away.
What makes it more galling for the Everton players is the reaction of the Chelsea players and fans. Many of them saw the Cup only as a consolation prize following their Champions League defeat, as well as a nice parting gift for their departing boss. A bit like the office whip round that didn't raise as much as they would like. So instead of the toaster all they could get was a nice big card and a box of chocolates.
"Two years is too long without a trophy," John Terry declared, rubbing salt in Evertonian wounds as they trudged off contemplating a 15th year without so much as an Intertoto cup for their efforts.
But what may have cheered them up a bit was the frankly bizarre sight of Hiddink and Roman Abramovich doing some strange dancing ritual around the Chelsea room. Hiddink, complete with huge cigar, looked every bit like an embarrassing Uncle trying to dance at a wedding while Abramovich had that familiar puzzled expression on his face that belays the fact he is a ruthless billionaire oil baron.
Rumours however that Roman and Hiddink will join up with Phil \'Pavarotti' Brown to form a musical dance trio and enter the next series of 'Britain's Got Talent' are unconfirmed.

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Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD; Michael J. Fine, MD, MSc
Grant Support: Dr. Metlay is supported by a Research Career Development Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs and a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Data collected for the development of the Pneumonia Severity Index was supported through the Pneumonia Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) Project funded by grant R01 HS06468 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Requests for Single Reprints: Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD, Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 9th floor, University and Woodland Avenues, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Current Author Addresses: Dr. Metlay: Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, VA Medical Center, 9th floor, University and Woodland Avenues, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Dr. Fine: Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University Drive C, Pittsburgh, PA 15240.
The initial management of patients suspected of having community-acquired pneumonia is challenging because of the broad range of clinical presentations, potential life-threatening nature of the illness, and associated high costs of care. The initial testing strategies should accurately establish a diagnosis and prognosis in order to determine the optimal treatment strategy. The diagnosis is important in determining the need for antibiotic therapy, and the prognosis is important in determining the site of care.
This paper reviews the test characteristics of the history, physical examination, and laboratory findings, individually and in combination, in diagnosing community-acquired pneumonia and predicting short-term risk for death from the infection. In addition, we consider the implications of these test characteristics from the perspective of decision thresholds. The history and physical examination cannot provide a high level of certainty in the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia, but the absence of vital sign abnormalities substantially reduces the probability of the infection. Chest radiography is considered the gold standard for pneumonia diagnosis; however, we do not know its sensitivity and specificity, and we have limited data on the costs of false-positive and false-negative results. In the absence of empirical evidence, the decision to order a chest radiograph needs to rely on expert opinion in seeking strategies to optimize the balance between harms and benefits. Once community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed, a combination of history, physical examination, and laboratory items can help estimate the short-term risk for death and, along with the patient's psychosocial characteristics, determine the appropriate site of treatment.
Table 1. Accuracy of History, Physical Examination, and Laboratory Findings for the Diagnosis of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Revised pneumonia probabilities based on history and physical examination findings.
Table 2. History, Physical Examination, and Laboratory Findings Significantly Associated with Death in Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Application of the Pneumonia Patient Outcomes Research Team Severity Index to determine initial site of treatment..
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It seems to be stupid survey call season again.
I don't know why, but these calls seem to happen for a period of weeks then stop for up to several months then start again. And this is the start – three calls yesterday and two today so far.
These callers are trained to be friendly starting with "How are you today Sir?"
Then a starter such as "I just have a few questions to ask you today please"
or "Please can you help me by answering just a few simple questions about lifestyle?"
They ask questions to profile you – gender, age range, location etc. then the key questions are usually about things such as insurance, pets, children, safety, who supplies your electricity and gas, which supermarkets you shop at etc.
The questions themselves are mostly harmless, but these people sell the answers so if you answer "No you don't have household insurance" then that makes you a good lead to sell to every home contents insurance company they can find.
The result is then lots more calls from insurance companies that you didn't ask for.
Most of these survey companies operate from outside of the UK and claim they can ignore the fact that many of us are registered on the Telephone Preference Service and should not be called. They are wrong in this belief and should not call TPS registered numbers.
Best not to answer such surveys unless you are happy to put up with the subsequent unwanted sales phone calls.
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Music is math that moves people. That's the conceit behind Soundwhich, an online platform that allows users to access, combine and share the basic "ingredients" of music to create their own songs, all without preexisting musical knowledge.
"It's well-known that musicians use widely-accepted formulas to compose the bulk of the music we hear every day," says Soundwhich tech lead Roger Chen of San Francisco-based Varidada Inc. These formulas specify tempo, chords and song structure. This is the minimum information a musician needs to know to compose an "ingredient" such as a bass line or a vocal harmonic that can be mixed with musical elements by other musicians using the same formula.
Soundwhich's innovation is to transform these formulas into algorithms called "musical guidelines." Using these common guidelines, musicians can create "ingredients" (divided into melody, harmony, bass and drums) that can be combined in nearly infinite variations. Soundwhich collaborated with hundreds of vocalists, guitarists, pianists, drummers and electronic producers around the world to source these ingredients.
"When you talk about sampling, whether that's digging in the crates at the record store or using a program to remix digital files, you're talking about composition as assemblage," says Chen. "The existing elements have their own meaning and context, but it's the distinctive way you put them together that makes the song new. We're trying to make that process more accessible to those with no previous musical knowledge. With Soundwhich, anyone can combine these ingredients in any way they like to create a fully-realized piece of music, just like using meat, veggies and condiments to make a sandwich."
Using the platform to create songs is simple and intuitive. Once a user has selected their formula, they can search for ingredients by category and tag, adding and dropping elements from the mix in real time. Stick to ingredients within a single "genre" to snap together a jazzy instrumental, or wander further afield to create a heretofore-unknown fusion of house, latin and metal. Without human intervention, Soundwhich has produced over 150 billion songs by using every possible combination of the samples in its database—but the one thing software can't yet do is immediately recognize when it's scored a hit like a human can.
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Quote of the Day - It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
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Step Right Up And Win A Big Prize As A State EmployeeHow would you like to get a grant for 90% of the cost to build your house? Or, perhaps somewhat more likely, plant your garden? Well, don't get too excited. It's not really likely at all.
Unless, that is, you own land. Lots of land. With trees on it. That need management.
Let me first get my biases out of the way. I was born on the East coast, grew up and went to high school on the East Coast, college on the East coast, and worked on the East coast. There, trees just grow. They don't need "management." But, as a transplant to California, I've learned that things are a bit different out here.
Here, apparently, trees need to be managed. In fact, they need so much management that the State will pay up to 90% of the cost to manage trees on private land.
What a boondoggle! Let's rush out and buy land with trees on it so we can get paid, too.
Admittedly, not too many people know about this deal, and frankly I wouldn't have either, except that a state employee applied for the grant, and the Department of Forestry, bless their hearts, asked the Attorney General if they could give the money to a state employee (see Opinion 04-701, to be posted soon).
The AG ruled yes, the state could give money to a state employee to manage trees. The AG noted that the landowner / state employee has no official involvement in evaluating and awarding grant applications and is not employed by the department, and none of his work affects the Department of Forestry.
I thought the rule would be something like entering a sweepstakes - employees of the company aren't eligible.
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Hi, I have an Olympus 750 and the XD memory card is currently write protected. It won't let me transfer the photos to my computer before I can format it to get rid of the write protect, as I don't want to lose the photos currently on it. How can I get rid of the write protect? Thanks
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Evertime I pull out the micro SD memory it goes to write protect.... how do I turn off the write protect....???
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Want to Take Arsenal Wenger Finis As high Maybe
Hull – Arsenal would almost certainly finish in the top four this season. For Arsene Wenger, ended the season in second place means bigger than in the third.
3-1 win over Hull City on Tuesday (05/05/2015) pm dawn, bringing Arsenal to match the points of Manchester City. Both teams are now both have 70 points, but Arsenal still have one match postponed.
With three weeks remaining, Arsenal had a relatively secure position in the top four. The number of maximum points that can be achieved fifth-placed team (Liverpool) is 70 points. But the Gunners superior head-to-head on Liverpool.
Arsenal now stay involved with the City competition for the position of runner-up. If you could choose, Wenger wants his side can finish in second third ketimnya.
"Yes, for me (second position means more than a third), yes. We want to finish as high as possible. The attitude of our competitive finish by looking at ourselves that we have the maximum until the last day, that means," said Wenger on the club's official website ,
"It would be tight. Tonight we just barely secured the top four but let's see if we can maintain the pace and quality," he added.
Seeing the recent performance, Arsenal began mentioned will be a champion contender next season. Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla, has called on his team's determination to clinch the title.
But Wenger is still reluctant to talk about it. French manager prefers to focus on the rest of the season.
"Ask it to me in the month of August. Give me a little room to breathe until August. At stake right now is to end the season well," said Wenger.
"If we keep the pace then we will finish second and we still have the FA Cup final. We'll see where we are after," he said.


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Build a campfire at night. Allow the kids to stay up late for storytelling. Under the Stars and around the glow of the campfire, take turns telling funny stories from your childhood. If space allows, have tents set up so cousins can sleep outdoors together. The move from campfire and storytelling to bed will be easier when bed is a tent in the backyard!
If you can get lodging in a resort that has access to a lake, forest, sand dunes, rivers, and cliffs, it will make for a memorable experience. Taking a walk under the stars in the light of a full moon will be a rewarding experience. The shadows of grasses and trees cast by the full moon, and the animated shadows of those walking along make for special memories.
If someone in your group has a telescope, have them bring it along. If you're far enough from a city, the number of stars in the night sky will be enormous. An amateur astronomer in your group can point out the Big Dipper, the North Star and other constellations. A trip to a planetarium for some education and viewing of the sky with even bigger telescopes is a not to be missed experience if you are near one.
Chances are, when you were children, you spent a lot of time outdoors, even if you grew up in the city, and nighttime activities always seem fresh and special. Does the location of your summer reunion coincide with the activity of lightning bugs? Children from another area of the country may have never seen any, so if you're lucky enough that they are active, take an after dusk walk in the humid summer to go looking for them.
If you are taking a walk at dusk, especially if it's in a natural area, be sure to have flashlights along. It can get very dark, very quickly out in the forest, and you will want to be able to see on your return trip if you have miscalculated the time or distance involved.
Other animals that come out at night are bats. Bats really will not harm you unless you disturb them, as with any animal. I recall a trip to Death Valley, Nevada one June, and at night, in the natural spring pool, bats swooped down from their hangouts to catch bugs on the surface of the water. It was beautiful, never frightening, and an experience that we all remember fondly.
Telling stories always seems more fun around a campfire, roasting marshmallows to make s'mores, and keeping warm if the night is chilly. Break into some ghost stories too. Perhaps there is a haunted house nearby you could take a tour of one evening. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, the hosts are sure to put on a good performance for you, one that may carry over once you get back to your reunion, perhaps prompting memories of other strange occurrences that you can elaborate on for one another.


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Crock Pot BREAD!!!
Not my recipe. I found this gem circulating on Facebook. Made it, it WORKS!
(3) Cups Flour
2-3 Dashes of Salt
2-3 Tsp's Sugar ( I added this but the recipe, link below didn't call for it)
1 1/2 Tsp's of Dry Yeast (Which is also a packet)
1 1/2 cups of HOT water. (Not boiling, but hot)
In large bowl, mix above ingredients well and cover with plastic wrap. Let stand 3 hours.
Next, remove risen dough and place on floured surface. Roll into a nice ball. Place on parchment paper, then place into crock pot on high for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
It was AMAZING!
Hubby already said he loved the texture so much that he bet, added sugar, cinnamon and raisins added for cinnamon bread would be tasty too! Me? As is or maybe some honey butter.
Okay, OFF I go back to this story at hand. Time to get er done!


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Day 1 in the big apple looked like this! a very comfy fit for the miles of walking we did. We started the day in Times Square followed by a stroll through Central Park which honestly had the most breathtaking views and out the other end to the Upper East Side (where I visited Blair Waldorf OBV) and ended the day doing some shopping at Bloomingdale's, Bergdof's and the 24 hour Apple store... It's safe to say I slept like a baby this night. A lot of you asked about my shoes on Instagram, the same shoes that I got stopped for a million times in New York - one guy told me that they were the best shoes he'd seen all day haha! well, I got them from Cloggs and I just knew they would be perfect for these casual days, I am a new loafer lover!
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My 2 Year old Nexus S and year old G-Nex are already running 4.1.2 Im not impressed with this phones at all, + no curved glass :( I'll stick with my Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus for now..
8GB only is disappointing, but galaxy nexus and nexus s both had 16 gigs internal, not particularly disappointing if there's no less than 16gigs max storage. But huge disappointment is the 8MP camera. If they had to come up with 8MP cam, they needed to come up with galaxy nexus, this iteration needs 12MP+ cam.
Dont evolve google, either revolve or dissolve!
What can we store in Just 8GB with a screen resolution of 1280*768. They have lost their mind.
You can use 8gb pretty easily if you don't know what you are doing. I'm sure that people who download loads of apps and games will fill up the storage very quickly.
Plus, those who like to root, will use up a great deal of space with Nandroid backups.
It makes no sense to me why they would release this. A 16gb version maybe, but with the advancement of hardware, software becomes larger.
8GB is disappointing. Fix the storage issue and the phone is perfect. With 32GB+ I'd want this phone yesterday
Disappointing no Miro sd slot, and only 8G storage ....
That is a disgrace on google nexus phones ...
Kifu, 11 Oct 2012Stop showing a new smartphone beside a lame outdated iphone..
Iphone is history....the 8 gig it is not a problem ,i hardly use 3-5 gig....
the real problem is the dimension of it-how the hell do i hold it and operate it with one hand??, i like games too ,i mean i like to play games on my cross fire radeon 7970 cards on my water cooled pc,the phone is mostly for communication...no offence.
iPhone is just too good to be outdated.
but doesn't samsung own the patent 4 this design?? it is the very same device as the galaxy nexus.
Google/LG gotta be joking. Playing the same WP7 game is like preparing to wash your hands with acid.
seriously , LG ??? you provide lesser storage to "prevent the new nexus from competing with the optimus line" ??? i hope that's just a joke...your optimus phone sells in meagre thousands....your only chance of comeback will be to push this phone with maximum effort....people don't give a cr@p bout optimus phones....And .... DAFUQ's wrong with Google??? i hope these leaks turn out to be false.......
Lol .instead of cutting off the storage for the sake of their flagships, such badly reputed company like LG should be thankful to google for using them to make a nexus device, while nobody buys their unupdatable flagships.
If LG wants attention from people,they should sacrifice their flagships for great nexus& boost its sales as much as they can .
WTF?! 8GB of internal storage, how much of that is user available? 5GB? If this turn out to be true, who will buy this phone, except devs?
This is too funny. On a side note, I think google will push its cloud services (Drive) on the next version of android, which is probably why they've only included 8GB of memory.
Really too ....!
I have a Galaxy NEXUS, but I'm mainly a fan of LG.
But This specification
Currently, the volume of games Comes to 2GB..
This phone with this CPU, the Ram, and This GPU...
it should have a greater capacity
At least 32 GB of internal memory, I thought it would be!
What's this? A failure?
I think LG wants to sell more OptimusGs.
Galaxy NEXUS 2 is also quite like Galaxy nexus that Is now available in the markets.
Apparently this year isn't Nexus year.
This NEXUS extremely ugly and extremely disappointing.
What Google thinks!?
If we, the readers, we designed a NEXUS was much better than that!: D


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(CNN) — A small wooden boat found off the western island of Sado in Japan contained decomposing bodies, according to local police.
The boat was badly damaged and contained faint markings on the side that appeared to be Korean characters, according to the Sado West Police. But the characters were so faint that they could not read it clearly, said Toshiyuki Kojima, deputy chief of Sado Nishi Police Station.
The boat was discovered early morning Wednesday, drifting into a rocky part of the coast at Mano Bay in Sado City. Authorities did not know how long the boat had been there.
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Christie's fetes 250 years in business with major British art sale
LONDON – From Joshua Reynolds to Lucian Freud, works spanning several centuries of British art will go under the hammer as part of a sale celebrating 250 years since auction house Christie's was founded.
The highlights are three major works, led by "Ib and her Husband", an intimate 1992 portrait by Freud of his pregnant daughter and her partner lying on a bed. The painting is estimated at around 18 million pounds ($26.24 million).
Joining it is Reynolds' 1778 "Portrait of Lucy Long, Mrs George Hardinge", which has never previously been publicly offered for sale and has been described as "one of the finest works by the artist to come to the market in a generation".
Said to be in "remarkable" condition, the portrait is estimated at around 2-3 million pounds.
The third major work is "Golden Hours", painted circa 1864 by Frederic Leighton, which goes to auction for the first time in 100 years and is estimated at 3-5 million pounds.
"All of the pictures are exemplary of their type," Orlando Rock, chairman of Christie's UK, told Reuters.
"I think from a quality point of view, they … all epitomise the periods they were created in."
The works are set to go on tour at Christie's in New York and Hong Kong next month before the June "Defining British Art" sale, which will be launched alongside an exhibition of British art works handled by Christie's. –Reuters


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Scholar-Athletes, Athlete Of The Year Announced
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey MONTICELLO — The University of Arkansas at Monticello announced its male and female scholar-athletes and athletes of the year Tuesday night at the UAM Athletics Awards Banquet inside the Green Room of the University Center. The female scholar-athlete of the year award was presented to senior basketball player Candace Virgadamo. The … Continue reading
Awards Banquet To Honor Top Student-Athletes
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey MONTICELLO — The University of Arkansas-Monticello's Department of Athletics will host its first-ever awards banquet Tuesday, April 16 at the University Center to honor the 2012-13 male and female athletes of the year, as well as the 2012-13 male and female scholar-athletes of the year. The banquet, exclusively for UAM student-athletes, … Continue reading
Forge Named D2 Bulletin All-America Honorable Mention
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey MONTICELLO — University of Arkansas at Monticello senior men's basketball player Kori Forge has been named an honorable mention selection to the 2013 Division II Bulletin All-America teams. This honor culminates his two-year career at UAM after most recently being named the 2012-13 Great American Conference Player of the Year and … Continue reading
Forge Receives All-Region Honors
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey BEMIDJI, Minn. — University of Arkansas-Monticello's senior guard Kori Forge has been selected to the 2012-13 Daktronics All-Central Region First Team. Forge recently ended his final collegiate season as the leading scorer in the Great American Conference, totaling 531 points throughout 27 games for an average of 19.7 points per outing. … Continue reading
Weevils Squashed By Bulldogs In Overtime
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Southwestern Oklahoma State scored 20 points in overtime to defeat the University of Arkansas-Monticello's men's basketball team 77-69 on Friday in the opening round of the 2013 Great American Conference Championship Tournament. The overtime loss follows the UAM women's team's overtime loss to Arkansas Tech on Thursday in … Continue reading
Weevils Face Bulldogs In GAC Tournament
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – The University of Arkansas-Monticello's men's basketball team is set to open the 2012-13 Great American Conference Championship Tournament this Friday, March 8 against Southwestern Oklahoma State, the team that eliminated the Boll Weevils from last year's tournament on a buzzer-beating shot in the semifinals. In addition to last … Continue reading
GAC Names Forge Player Of The Year
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Senior guard Kori Forge became the 25th addition to UAM's 1,000-point club and the first to reach the milestone in the two-year history of the Great American Conference in a 70-68 overtime loss to Southern Arkansas Feb. 28, just one notable achievement he has on his resume leading … Continue reading
OBU Downs UAM With Second-Half Surge
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey ARKADELPHIA — Ouachita Baptist outscored the University of Arkansas-Monticello's men's basketball team 47-21 in the second half to defeat the Boll Weevils 62-58 on Saturday in the final game of the regular season for both teams. The Boll Weevils (16-10, 11-9 GAC) led 31-21 at halftime and grew that lead to … Continue reading
Forge Joins 1,000 Point Club, Weevils Squashed By SAU
Courtesy of Brian Ramsey MAGNOLIA – Senior Kori Forge scored a game-high 20 points in a 70-68 overtime loss to Southern Arkansas Thursday night on the road to give him a career total of 1,013 points. This makes him the 25th edition to the University of Arkansas at Monticello men's basketball 1,000 point club and … Continue reading


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Bronco fans who attended the men's basketball game with Pacific game on Dec. 17 may have noticed a new and rather large addition to the Leavey Center! Santa Clara has installed a full color 25 foot by 13 ½ foot video board, made by Daktronics, one of the industry leaders.
The board will be fully operational as it makes its official debut at the 45th annual Cable Car Classic on Thurs., Dec. 29 and Fri., Dec. 30. Santa Clara will play Eastern Michigan in the second game on the first day at 8:15 pm with Wagner and Air Force tipping off at 6 pm.
"The addition of the video board is yet another piece of the puzzle in furthering of our broad vision to create an unmatched game-day atmosphere for our sports that play in the Leavey Center (men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball). Enhancing the game-day atmosphere has been at the top of our priority list, not only to fuel the success of our teams but to create the type of school spirit, passion and excitement that our student-body craves," said Bronco Athletic Director Dan Coonan.
The HD compatible board specifically measures in at 24'11" wide and 13'6" high. It uses 10mm technology, which is the preferred technology for new boards at the collegiate and professional level
It is able to play both video and still images from a variety of feeds during men's basketball, women's basketball and volleyball games in the Leavey Center. Santa Clara will use it for prepared video, live statistics and live in-game video. The center-hung board will continue to be used for still images and live statistics.


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Compliance Advisor - Immediate
Job description - Technical & Administrative Responsibilities
1. Coordinate and ensure PSV, Safety System and Crane Compliance programs are implemented per client Standard Operating Procedure and regulatory requirement. Ensure business activities are in compliance with regulatory obligations, policies and guidelines.
2. Mentor, coach and advice Technicians and the Maintenance organization on industry practices
3. Develop procedures, flowcharts and philosophy document required o manage the PSV maintenance program. Continual evaluation of the adequacy of existing internal control systems and recommend improvement as necessary.
4. Set up/ establish process work flow, manage and seek opportunities to optimize work processes, ensuring optimal utilization of resources (manpower and parts).
5. Responsible for providing support in the implementation of PSV, Safety Systems and regulatory related compliances.
6. Coordinate compliance activities to remain abreast of the status of all activities and trends; identify potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk.
7. Support development initiatives and revising of procedures for the general operation of the equipment/systems to prevent unethical or improper work activities.
8. Develop, share, disseminate, coach and train personnel on audit programs and internal control systems for the organizations business activity areas.
9. Develop audit program and conduct regular audit to determine safety system compliance with policies, guidelines and regulations. Prepares audit report with recommendations. Develop/implement corrective action plans for resolution of audits findings / problematic issues.
10. Plan, schedule, direct, prioritize, share and source resources implementing the program.
11. Administer and manage 3rd party contractors ensuring optimal utilization of services and value obtained from relationship.
12. Oversee QA/ QC program, training and certification program and ensure personnel & equip certifications are up-to-date.
13. Manage Compliance reporting, reconciliation of data between JDE and Visions and dissemination of Compliance reports both internally and externally (regulatory body). Assures data integrity and ensure Visions SOR is in alignment with JDE
14. Routinely set up, participate, lead and/ or facilitate/ coordinate meetings with internal and external stakeholders (peer and management) providing updates on Compliance program.
1. Previous experience managing similar program in an IOC facilityis required or significant advantage.
2. Prior minimum 5 years demonstrated experience required.
3. Knowledge of the testing requirements per API and other industry standards is a requirement. Knowledge of Client's Standards and Specifications is an advantage.
4. Technical knowledge of the PSV inspection program and activities is expected. Prior experience leading or developing such program is a requirement.
5. Knowledge of JDE and Visions program is expected but prior experience with other similar industry software/ application will be considered.
6. Candidate MUST have working knowledge of resources for codes and regulations such as DPR, API-14C, 30 CFR 250, NEC, API-14F, etc.
7. Ability to work independently with proactive communication skills is essential.
8. Good attention to details with ability to follow, applies, interpret and explain instructions and guidelines. Committing to a course of action without undue delay.
9. Excellent interpersonal relationship and communication skills and ability to obtain required results through influence without authority.
10. Great attention for details and able to interpret Codes and Standards and communicate same to Technicians is required.
11. Knowledge of client's processes, procedures, standards and specification is of significant advantage.
12. Established network with the industry experts is a plus.
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Walks & lookouts
The Flinders Ranges region offers great bush walks, town walks and lookouts.
Devil's Peak trail
The bushwalk up to Devil's Peak is steep in places and is recommended for experienced and fit walkers. It may take 2 - 3 hours for the return journey, but you will see a large variety of native vegetation, wildflowers, birds and get a fantastic panoramic view at the summit (670 metres above sea level) and along the way.
Mount Brown Conservation Park trail
If you have extra time available, rather than return straight to Quorn, travel back along the Devil's Peak turnoff road and turn right along the Richman Valley Road. This will take you a further 10 km through farming country to Waukarie Falls (usually dry) and the start of the Mt Brown Conservation Park Bush Walks at Olive Grove Trailhead. From here (14 km south of Quorn along the Richman Valley Road) there are two walks (no steep sections) to choose from:
- A 15 km loop walk including the spur track to Mt Brown summit normally takes 7- 8 hours.
- Allow 6 hours for the other walk, which is 11.6 km (5.8 km one way), for the return journey to the summit of Mt Brown
- After heavy rain the Waukerie Falls will run. It is only a 5 min. walk from the carpark. It is also a great picnic spot.
The altitude range of these walks is from 410 metres at the trailhead to 970 metres at the summit.
Dutchman Stern Conservation Park trail
This park offers a variety of family bushwalks and is open all year (other than on total fireban days).
There are two main walks:
- The ridgetop walk (4.1 km one way - 4 hours return)
- The loop walk (10.5 km - allow 5 hours to complete)
The third option is walking to the Terrace Viewpoint and back (2km one way). At the viewpoint you have a good view to Mt Brown and Devil's Peak on one side and, on a clear day, to Wilpena Pound to the other side.
Altitude range is from 440 metres at the trailhead to 810 metres at checkpoint 3. The Heysen trail runs through the Dutchman Stern Conservation Park.
Mount Remarkable National Park trails
This park is situated just south of Wilmington in the southern Flinders Ranges.
It is a meeting place of the arid north and the wetter southern regions of South Australia, and contains a fascinating mix of flora and fauna from both areas.
There are two major access points on the eastern side of the ranges. Mount Remarkable itself is the backdrop to Melrose, 24km south of Wilmington and is only accessible to walkers. Alligator Gorge may be reached via a picturesque drive commencing 1km south of Wilmington on Main North Road (unsuitable for caravans).
Warren Gorge trail
This loop trail is 5.3 km long and takes between 1.5 to 3 hours to complete. It is easy to moderate depending on your level of fitness. There are some loose surfaces and short steep parts . Close to sunset and sunrise you will very likely spot the local yellow footed rock wallabies.
Jarvis Hill trail and lookout
Jarvis Hill, some 6 km west of Hawker provides a panoramic view of the Central Flinders Ranges including the Hawker area, including the Worumba Hills to the east, Wilpena pound, Elder Range and Wonoka Hill to the north, and Yourambulla Range to the south.
A sign in the carpark directs you to a turnstile at the begining of the walk. The walk is 260 metres uphill to an obelisk, which is 510 metres above sea level. Allow 45 minutes for the return walk.
Camel's Hump scenic lookout
Access to this lookout is about 1.5 km south of Hawker on the Quorn Road. A short climb offers panoramic views of Hawker and the Central Flinders Ranges.
Castle Rock scenic lookout
This is a prominent rock formation located about a kilometre east of Hawker. Take the Wilpena Road for about a kilometre then turn right onto the unsealed road (sign posted). Proceed for another kilometre to the top of the hill, where you may leave your car. Pass through the small access gate on your right and proceed along the track which heads towards Castle Rock.
Hawker Town Heritage walk
The Hawker Community Development Board has designed a walk and brochure, aimed at enlightening visitors on the building heritage and early pioneering history of Hawker. A Town Heritage Walk Guide is available at the Information Centre located in Hawker Motors.
Quorn Town walks
"A Quorn Historic Buildings Walk" is one walk promoted in Quorn. Brochure providing directions and information on this walk is available from the Flinders Ranges Visitor Information Centre in Railway Terrace, Quorn.
Quorn Foothill Flora walk
This reserve is located in Park Terrace and includes a short walk (allow half an hour) through a 3 hectare reserve, 2 kilometres from the Quorn town centre. Walk through the gate, collect a species list from the 'mail box' and follow the marked trail that will return you to the car park.
Powell Gardens Botanic walk
Powell Gardens was established to promote the use of native plants in home and public gardens. The garden has native plant species found to occur within a radius of 30km of Quorn. The 500 or so plants are mostly shrubs, grasses and groundcovers they provide contrast to the neighbouring tall grove of trees and Capowie Creek's red gums.
Powell Gardens has been featured on the ABC show Gardening Australia.


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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Types of Pins
- 3 Input Pins
- 3.1 Input Basket: Queue of Incoming Values
- 3.2 Input Pin Trigger Attributes
- 3.3 Non-Triggering Pins which are Unconnected or which Received no Value
- 3.4 Summary of Trigger + Consuming Combinations
- 3.5 Triggering Behavior when no Triggering Input is Present
- 3.6 Triggering Behavior when Multiple Inputs are Present
- 3.7 Special Input Pins
- 3.8 Variable Number of Pins
- 4 Output Pins
- 5 Special Pins of Script Action Blocks
- 6 "Do not Log Pin-Value in Activitylog"-Attribute
Pins are the data interface between steps. They are used to read and pass data such as parameters, results and measurement data, documents or simple control information and represent the inputs and outputs of an activity. Output values of one activity are transported via a connection from the output pin to one or multiple input pins of other processing steps. Input values can come from other Pins (via connections), Literal Freeze Values or from Environment Variables. When all required inputs of a processing step are available, an activity is created, which processes the input values, computes one or multiple result values, and transfers them via the output pins to further processing steps.
Types of Pins[edit]
The different types of pins are shown in this image from left to right:
Data Inputs:
- Data Input (at the left, named "in1")
Control Inputs:
- Enable Input (also called "Trigger Input" at top left)
- Cancel Input
- Timelimit Input
- Repeatcount Input
- Performer Input
Data Outputs:
- Data Output (at the right, named "out1")
Control Outputs:
- Enable Output (also called "Trigger Output" at bottom left)
- Exception Output
- ExecutionTime Output (since expecco 1.8)
Input Pins[edit]
Input pins are located at the left (data inputs) and/or at the top (called control or special inputs) of a step. They receive data and process this depending on their type.
Input Basket: Queue of Incoming Values[edit]
Every input pin has an associated incoming data basket, which is capable of buffering multiple input values. Values as coming from other steps via a connection remain there until the receiving step gets triggered (all of its required inputs are present) and consumes the next value from the input basket(s). This means, that an output pin can write multiple values to a connection or multiple output pins from different steps may connect and send data to the same input pin.
By default, an input basket's buffer is unlimited in capacity (actually, the capacity is limited by the amount of available memory in the system). However, a limit may be configured in the diagram editor via the pin's popup menu. If a limit is given, and the input basket is full, any further incoming data is blocked and the sending step(s) are suspended. This solves the traditional producer-consumer problem, where a generator is sending data to a consumer, which cannot process the values fast enough (i.e. the producer outruns the consumer).
Input Pin Trigger Attributes[edit]
Each regular (data) input pin can individually be configured to be one of the following built-in stereotypes, which affect its triggering and value consumption behavior:
- triggering & consuming ("Regular Pin")
- non-triggering & non-consuming ("Parameter Pin")
- non-triggering & pass-through ("Mailbox Pin")
- triggering & pass-through mailbox ("Telegram Pin")
Actually, there are 8 possible combinations of the triggering/non-triggering, consuming/non-consuming and mailbox/non-mailbox attributes. However, in practice, only the four combinations above are useful. In fact, almost all pins are either regular (trigger & consuming) or parameter pins (non-trigger & non-consuming). Therefore, those have been given special names and they have special menu items in the network editor's pop-up menu for pins. Other combinations are to be set via a sub-menu, if they are ever needed. Some combinations are blocked as they do not make sense at all.
Trigger vs. Non-Trigger[edit]
The trigger / non-trigger attribute affects if a new activity is to be created for the step when a value arrives. Each triggering pin is considered by the input-fetcher algorithm (as described below). A step without any triggering data input pin must be activated by either an autostart attribute, or by an explicit trigger via the trigger-input pin.
Consuming vs. Non-Consuming[edit]
The consuming / non-consuming attribute defines if incoming values are read-out from the pins input basket (consuming) or stay there. Consuming baskets show the normal producer-consumer behavior. Non-consuming pins are used for parameter values: these values are stored in the pin and kept remembered for the next activity, until changed. The diagram editor will always silently change the pin to be non-consuming and non-triggering, when a freeze value is defined.
Due to the big difference in the behavior (possibly affecting the execution of the diagram), this attribute is also visualized in the diagram: consuming pins are drawn as an unfilled pin-rectangle (meaning that a value is taken), whereas non-consuming pins are drawn as a filled rectangle (meaning that the value remains there).
Notice for consuming pins:
If a pin's input value is to be reused in a loop, it must be configured as a non-consuming pin. Otherwise the input data value is already consumed when the second iteration is due, and the step would not be triggered again. Because this is so common an error (to "eat" the input value in a loop), there is an extra check-entry for that in the tree-pane's error-search tab. Be especially careful when using a compound action's input pin value inside the network as input to a step which is part of a loop.
Telegram and Mailbox Pins[edit]
The pass-through (mailbox/telegram) pin stereotype specifies that input values are not latched and remembered in the activity, but instead are passed through to either the underlying elementary action or the internal network of a compound activity. This means that these pins forward any received value immediately to an already executing activity (all of them, if there are multiple). The mailbox attribute can only be specified in the schema (i.e. not for individual steps), because the action's implementation needs to be prepared for this kind of of behavior. It does not make sense to change the attribute for a pin which was never intended to be used otherwise.
In a compound network, an incoming telegram value will immediately be send to the inner connection and possibly trigger execution of the connected step there.
In an elementary block, the pin gets the value and the program code can check for the presence of a value with
"pin.hasValue()" e.g. in a loop.
Non-Triggering Pins which are Unconnected or which Received no Value[edit]
Elementary code should check for a value being present at the pin, using the
"pin.hasValue()" query function before accessing the pin value. Otherwise a "No-Pin Value" exception will be thrown. In compound actions, any connected diagram step (the inner connection) will never get a value from the pin and therefore possibly never be triggered.
Summary of Trigger + Consuming Combinations[edit]
As mentioned above, some combinations of trigger vs. consuming are useless or seldom used. The following table gives a summary of all.
- Triggering + Consuming + Non-Mailbox
This is the most common setup. The input value is consumed from the (underlying) input queue and used by the activity when all required input values are available. If another value arrives at the pin later, another activity is started for that step.
- Non-Triggering + Non-Consuming + Non-Mailbox
The second most common setup. Typically, the input value is a freeze-value, and that same value is used for every incarnation of the step. However, if the input value is coming from another step's output, the "last value" is remembered for the next activity ("latched", so to speak)
- Triggering + Non-Consuming + Non-Mailbox
Questionable. In this setup, the step starts its activity when all other available pin values are present AND that particular pin has also received a value. Such a setup can be used to ensure that a particular value has been generated, and this value is to be reused later. One example is, when a collection is enumerated, and the enumeration is to be triggered by incoming key values, but the collection itself may or may not be present when the first key is computed. I.e. the collection may arrive any time later, but should be reused for each incoming key. There are other, more visible ways to model such a behavior, and the diagram should probably be changed to use explicit trigger-out to trigger-in connections for this.
- Non-Triggering + Consuming + Non-Mailbox
We cannot think of any use for this combination, so it should not be used.
- Triggering + Consuming + Mailbox
Do not use
- Non-Triggering + Non-Consuming + Mailbox
Do not use
- Triggering + Non-Consuming + Mailbox
Do not use
- Non-Triggering + Consuming + Mailbox
This is the standard mailbox pin setup. Any value which arrives at the pin while the activity is already running will be passed directly to the running activities internal step an will possibly trigger that step there. It is typically used to tell a running activity about a special condition (eg. to cancel or lead it into another state).
Triggering Behavior when no Triggering Input is Present[edit]
If a step has either no data input at all, they are disconnected, or all of them are frozen and are therefore non-triggering pins, the step has no trigger condition due to data flow. The step's action must then be activated either by manually adding an "Enable Input Pin", or by giving the step the "Autostart" attribute.
Triggering Behavior when Multiple Inputs are Present[edit]
The overall trigger behavior is specified in a block's schema definition - not at the step in a diagram. The reason is that the implementor of an action block (especially if it is an elementary block) would know better what the intended and appropriate behavior will be, and if the action can or should deal with unconnected pins or pins which have not received a datum.
When multiple triggering pins are present in a step, the overall trigger behavior can be specified to be one of:
- AND-connected
AND-connected Triggering Behavior[edit]
All connected triggering pins must have a value for the trigger to happen. Disconnected, parameter- and mailbox-pins are ignored. This used to be the default behavior in pre 2.8 expecco, when new elementary blocks were created, but was changed to "AND" thereafter. Experience with customers showed that this default is more intuitive.
AND Triggering Behavior[edit]
All triggering pins must be connected and have a value for the trigger to happen. Parameter- and mailbox-pins are excluded from this test. Starting with release 2.8, this is the default, when new compound actions are created.
OR Triggering Behavior[edit]
Any triggering pin with a value will trigger the activity. This is useful if a step receives values from multiple sources (i.e. to implement a join from alternative branches).
Unconnected pins and pins with no value are ignored and provide no value when referred to inside a network or elementary action code.
In a traditional Petri Net, synchronization of values is done at explicit transition points. To make the diagram easier to read and understand, expecco has merged the transition functionality into the action steps. Thus, every step with multiple input pins has an implicit transition behavior already built-in. In situations, where explicit transition points are preferred or required (for semantic or didactic reasons), the standard library also provides a number of synchronization blocks, which can be used to model the traditional join, merge and fork transition primitives as extra items in the network.
Special Input Pins[edit]
The following special input pins are optional and not automatically present after initial creation of a step in the diagram editor. You have to explicitly create them via the step's pop-up menu or via one of the toolbar shortcut action buttons of the diagram editor. Their trigger behavior is implicit and depends on the type of pin.
Enable Input Pin[edit]
The "enable input pin" (also called "trigger-in" pin) is used to explicitly trigger the execution of a step.
If connected, it is used like an additional triggering, required input.
Trigger inputs are needed if either all of a step's inputs are frozen to static values, or if the execution has to be synchronized to be definitely after another step's execution, independent of when data input arrived. Trigger inputs are also useful to create loops in the diagram.
Trigger input pins are consuming (and of course: triggering).
Cancel Input Pin[edit]
The "cancel input pin" can be used to cancel (abort) an ongoing activity. A long-running activity can be cancelled, by passing any data value to a step's cancel pin while it is executing.
The data-flow-behavior of a cancel input is different from other input pins' behavior: cancel input pins behave like a mailbox-input pin; this means that input values are not fetched and remembered at triggering time, as is the case with normal input pins. Instead, an incoming value is immediately handled at any time during the execution of the step and forces the activity to stop.
If a cancel pin receives a value before the step's activity has started or after it has finished, nothing happens. Especially, a cancel value arriving before the activity has started, is ignored. If uncertain, make sure that no race conditions arise, by inserting appropriate delay steps, or by enforcing a definite execution order via "trigger-out -> trigger-in" chains.
Timelimit Input Pin[edit]
The "time-limit" input pin is used to automatically cancel an activity after a given maximum execution time. The time-limit value can either come from another step's output, frozen to a constant value, or read from an environment variable. In most real-world applications, a constant freeze value or an environment variables are used.
The time-limit pin is a non-triggering, non-consuming parameter pin.
Iterate Input Pin[edit]
The "iterate input pin" (also called: "repeat count") can be used to execute a step's action multiple times. The iteration value can originate from another step's output, from a constant freeze-value, or from an environment variable. This is a non-triggering, non-consuming parameter pin. On the outside, the iteration is invisible (except for any outputs which might be written to multiple times). This means, that in the activity log, the block is only shown once (but the iteration value is shown in the log). Also, if used together with a time-limit pin, the time-limit is applied to the overall execution (i.e. NOT applied to each individual iteration). Finally, a cancel input finishes the overall execution, not only the current iteration. If present, the time-output of repeated step gets the overall time (it is not written multiple times with the individual times).
Notice that the action is repeated with the same input values. If there are any consuming input values, only a single value is consumed, regardless of how often the action is repeated. Thus it is for example not possible to force a stream-read-line step, to read multiple lines. Such a behavior must be realized via an explicit loop, or by triggering the read step multiple times.
Performer Input Pin[edit]
The "performer input pin" is only present at a virtual block's step. It is be used to dynamically specify a concrete action block to be performed by the virtual block.
If a virtual block's performer input is left unconnected, the environment is consulted for a binding of the virtual action or the virtual action's library (see virtual library). This is a non-consuming, non-triggering pin.
Variable Number of Pins[edit]
An elementary action may specify that a variable number of input and/or output pins is allowed in its steps. Then, the number of pins can be changed by pulling down a special pin-count handle in the activity diagram, where the step is placed. To enable a variable number of input or output pins, use the "Special Attributes" popup menu function in the schema editor of the action block.
Before the 2.8 version of expecco, only the very last pin could be defined as a "variable" pin, and only the last pin could be replicated in a step. Starting with the 2.8 version, it is also possible to replicate a group of pins. For example, by specifying the last 2 pins as a replicated group, additional pins can be added to a step in multiples of 2. Individual pins within a group may have different datatypes, and the replicated pins take the datatype of their corresponding pin from the action's schema definition. This is very useful to define "multi-key-value" groups, for example for multi-setter actions of collections or user data objects.
Notice that only elementary actions can have a variable number of pins (because there is no way currently, to connect those pins in a diagram). Also, special elementary code is required which dynamically determines the number of pins and enumerates them. The elementary code API of variable pins is described in Expecco API.
Output Pins[edit]
Output pins are located at the right ("data outputs") and at the bottom of a step (called "control" or "special" outputs). They pass data/control information to other steps (if connected). Notice that output pins can be configured to be either buffered or unbuffered:
Output Pin Buffer Attribute[edit]
Each regular (data) output pin can individually be configured to be either buffering or non-buffering. Their behavior differs in the error situation and in case of multiple writes to the pin:
- Buffered
a buffered output pin collects and remembers outgoing values until the action is finished without being either canceled or terminated by an exception. If finished without success, no values are written. If finished with success, the remembered values are written (at the same time as other buffered pins of the same action) to their output connections. It is ensured that all outgoing values of a step with multiple output pins are written in one atomic operation, so that follow up steps which receive those values will get them in a synchronized fashion (just imagine, that there are multiple values to be passed to receiving steps, and those values form a tuple of related values). If a buffered output pin is written multiple times, all written values are buffered until successful finished.
- Unbuffered
unbuffered output pins forward their output values immediately to any connected input pin of receiving steps. If multiple values are generated during the action's execution, the values may immediately trigger other activities as values are generated, and those may execute in parallel to the generating activity. Once a value is generated, it will be processed by receiving steps, regardless of the sending action's final termination status - even if failing or canceled will those values be "out in the world". Also, there will be no synchronization with respect to values as generated for other output pins of the same action.
Due to the big difference in the behavior (possibly affecting the execution of the diagram), this attribute is also visualized in the diagram: buffered pins are drawn as an unfilled pin-rectangle (meaning that no value appears immediately), whereas non-buffered pins are drawn as a filled rectangle (meaning that values appear immediately).
When Should an Unbuffered Output be Used?[edit]
Consider a block which is programmed to send out 100 values (or value tuples) to its output pins, which are fed to a test scenario action which receives those tuples. The values may contain tuples of test data or individual data values. Also consider, that these 100 values should be sent 1 per second. I.e. the test should run for 100 seconds, with 1 seconds delay between runs. This is done by putting a delay into the generator, to produce only one data tuple per second (which can be done easily both in an elementary block, or in a compound block).
If the data generator block's outputs are buffered, it would run for 100 seconds, remember all generated values, and then send them out as one jet of 100 tuples to the receiving block. Thus the system would seem idle, doing no test for a 100 seconds, then execute them all as fast as it can.
With buffering turned off, each tuple is immediately sent to the receiving test scenario block, which would start one test run every second.
Another example could be a test-data feeder, which reads tupled data linewise from a file (say a CSV file from excel), and passes those tuples to its output pin(s), again one tuple per second. Here again, unbuffered outputs are needed, so that the action connected to the output gets triggered once per second.
Output Pin Value Timestamped Attribute[edit]
If enabled, a timestamp is attached to every pin's output datum as it is created (written to the pin). This is useful for unbuffered pins of actions, which write multiple times to an output pin (for example: server actions, which send logging information to a stream-output pin).
Notice that timestamps are disabled by default, because that will required a lot of additional storage to be held in the (in memory) activity logs.
Special Output Pins[edit]
Enable Output Pin[edit]
The optional "enable output" pin (also called "trigger-out") is activated after the execution of a step is finished successfully. Its main use is to enforce sequential execution of steps which would otherwise either execute in parallel or in no definite execution order. It can also be used to trigger actions , depending on the outcome of a previous computation. Finally, it can be used to create looping constructs, by connecting a trigger output back to a previously executed action's trigger input pin.
The value appearing at the trigger output pin is arbitrary - it should be treated as an anonymous token, of no specific data type (actually, it is not defined, what is appearing there).
The enable output pin is NOT given a value if an exception is raised AND an exception output pin is present (because then, you may want to direct the execution to different paths to handle or report the error). However, it is triggered, if an exception is ignored via the "ignore exceptions" attribute.
Exception Output Pin[edit]
The optional "exception output pin" is used for exception handling and reporting. Whenever an execution leads to an error, and the exception output pin is connected, an exception information datum is generated and passed to that output. Usually the value is used to trigger or cancel other activities via their cancel or trigger input pins. Steps which do not handle the exception (i.e. those without an exception output and not ignoring the exception) pass the exception up to their enclosing network's step and possibly handled there. If nowhere handled, this exception forwarding will continue up to the top-level test case, and lead to an ERROR verdict there.
Notice, that by connecting both the exception-out and the trigger-out pins to different follow up steps, conditional execution based on a step's success is possible.
Also note that if the "Ignore Exceptions" option is set for a step, both enable output pin AND the exception output pins are triggered. But again: ONLY if the "Ignore Exceptions" attribute is set. This at first sight unintuitive behavior gives you a chance to detect failures and write a log entry, but still continue with the normal execution order. Without this, you had to duplicate the paths from the exception and the trigger output.
Exception Pin Example 1: Selecting a different execution path on failure
Depending on the success or failure of Step1, either Step2 or Step3 is executed:
Exception Pin Example 2: Cancelling another operation on failure
Both are started in parallel (due to the autostart flag). If the execution of the first step fails, the second will be canceled via its cancel pin (if it has not finished by that time):
ExecutionTime Output Pin[edit]
This pin, if present, will provide the step's execution time (as a TimeDuration value). You can pass this value to an "Assert Less", "Assert Greater" or "Assert in Range" block to ensure that the execution time of an action is within some bounds. Typically this is used to ensure that performance and response-time requirements are met.
The timelimit output is written, if either the step executes with success, or the "ignore exceptions" or the "cancel is OK" attribute of the step is set.
Special Pins of Script Action Blocks[edit]
Script actions can provide a number of additional special pins. In order to make activity diagrams easier to read, these are normally not automatically created for new script actions (when created in the navigation tree).
Those pins are created via the "Special Pins" menu function in the scheme editor. The pins are on the input side:
- execDir
an optional execution directory
- args
an optional list of command line arguments
- stdin
the standard input to be sent to the script
- ignoreExitCode
to treat a non-zero exit code as success
- rawOutput
to provide raw output (no line end canonicalization)
- outNLInes
to define the stdout pin's behaviour (0 = all in one; 1 = linewise)
- errNLines
to define the stderr pin's behaviour (0 = all in one; 1 = linewise)
- prompt_optional
an optional prompt string to search for
- command
an optional command
and on the output side:
- stdout
the standard output; either linewise, all-in-one, or chunked, as specified by the "outNLines" input pin
- stderr
the standard error; either linewise, all-in-one, or chunked, as specified by the "errNLines" input pin
- result (exit code)
the program's exit code
- prompt_detected
a trigger if the optional prompt was detected on stdout or stderr
- stdoutValue
the stdout type-converted as per datatype
"Do not Log Pin-Value in Activitylog"-Attribute[edit]
This is an attribute associated to a step's input and output pins. By default, all of a step's pin values are recorded in the activity log, unless either the owning step has been given a "Skip in Activity Log" attribute, or pin value logging is globally disabled (via the project settings), or logging is completely disabled (also via the project settings).
However, there are some rare situations, when an individual pin's value should not be recorded in the activityLog:
- if the datum contains security sensitive information (e.g. a password or cryptographic key)
- if the datum is huge and would otherwise fill up the memory too fast if remembered (e.g. big transfer data buffers, which are not needed for later reporting)
The "Do not Log Pin-Value" attribute can be set for every step-pin individually via the pin's context menu-"Special Attributes" submenu.
Notice: if big data buffers are required to be recorded, these should be written into an attachment file, and the involved pins be marked as non-logged.
For elementary code API to pins see: Expecco API


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