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In the Sync Preferences screen, configure the synchronization options that the NetSuite integration will use.
You must fill in all the required fields before you can go into the Advanced Settings page upon clicking Next. A required field is marked with an asterisk.
Yes if you have enabled multiple currencies in NetSuite. Otherwise, select
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Use these settings to configure how customer accounts are synced between Zuora and NetSuite.
Select the application that is the Customer Master, which is where the account will be managed. Only Customer Accounts created or modified in the master application will be synced to the "destination" application.
Select whether you want to sync all new and modified records from the Customer Account master application (Sync New and Modified Records), overwriting any existing values in the other application, or if you only want to sync new records (Sync New Records Only). If you select
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If Zuora is the Customer Master and you choose to use a value from the source record, if Auto-Generated Numbers are enabled for customers in NetSuite, you must also enable Allow Override in NetSuite. Additionally, if you want to sync both new and modified records, you must enable Update in NetSuite. In NetSuite, navigate to Setup > Company > Auto-Generated Numbers.
If you selected Sync New and Modified Records, you can select whether the sync should also update the Customer Account number field.
If Zuora is the customer master and you have enabled Auto-Generated Numbers in NetSuite, but do not permit updates, you must select Do Not Allow Updates in NetSuite. In NetSuite, navigate to Setup > Company > Auto-Generated Numbers.
Zuora Connector for NetSuite will allow updates by default.
If you selected "Yes", the connector will take the value of the Customer Id field from Netsuite up until the first space (" ") and use that value to populate the Zuora Account Number field.
This will only occur when the Zuora account does not have any transactions. For example, Zuora does not allow an account number to be changed when the account contains transactions, the connector checks the Zuora accounts for a Last Invoiced date and will not update an account number if a Last Invoiced date is found.
This feature is currently in development and is subject to change without advance notice. We are actively soliciting feedback from a small set of early adopters.
If you want to sync all unassigned payments from your Zuora tenant that Invoice Settlement is enabled for, you need to enter into this field the Id of the NetSuite customer record that you have created to store all Zuora unassigned payments.
Use Zuora Charge ID or
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Use Zuora Charge ID, a combination of a static Zuora Charge plus a unique ID will be mapped. If you select
Use Zuora Charge Name, the Charge Name will be mapped as-is. However, you must ensure the Charge Name is globally unique.
Sync New Records Only, no subsequent changes will be synced once a record has been created.
Transaction Number Mapping: Select how Transaction Numbers should be mapped. If you select
Use Number From Source Record, the Transaction number from the source application will be used. If you select
Let Destination Auto-Number, the next sequential Transaction number in the destination application will be used to generate new records. You can enable this feature in NetSuite by selecting Setup > Company Auto-Generated Numbers.


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Played a central role in the development of state and national parks in the United States. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[1] With only a public school elementary education he had risen to become an American labor union leader and vice president of the International Association of Machinists. He had a reputation for fairness, tact, and patience in all his dealings.[2][3] On 5 April 1933 he was appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). It was Fechner's fairness and ability for organization and administration that impressed the president to his appointment as director.[2] Although he had been an important labor figure, Fechner objected to attempts of union organizers to form unions among CCC enrollees in the camps. He felt that the government was doing all it possibly could for the well-being of the enrollees: well fed, supporting dependents with monthly earnings, getting an education; and they were contributing in a constructive manner to the conservation needs of the nation. The need for a union in this situation was not necessary, and he issued orders to keep union organizers out of the CCC camps and gave instructions that if any of the CCC enrolees joined a union they were to be discharged.[4] Upon Fechner's death while still serving as CCC Director he was succeeded by James McEntee.[5]
Fechner's likeness appeared on the cover of Time magazine on February 6, 1939. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
- ^ The National Encyclopedia of American Biography, pp. 70-71.
- ^ a b Wirth, Conrad L. Parks Politics, and the People. University of Oklahoma Press. 1980. p. 80
- ^ Ermentrout, Rccobert Allen "Forgotten Men, the Civilian Conservation Corps." (1982) p. 14
- ^ Wirth, Conrad L. Parks Politics, and the People. University of Oklahoma Press. 1980. pp. 80, 82.
- ^ Staff report (January 1, 1940). Robert Fechner, Head of CCC, Dies; Director Since Its Founding Was Ex-Vice President of the International Machinists. Roosevelt Praises Work. Administrative Ability and Vision Cited, His Death Is Called Loss to Nation. New York Times
External links
- Into the Woods: The First Year of the Civilian Conservation Corps
- Time cover, February 6, 1939
- Robert Fechner grave in Arlington National Cemetery

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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Death is not an easy subject for kids to grasp, but it's 100 times tougher for kids on the Autism spectrum. While I want Noah to understand the permanence of death, in that moment, I held my tongue and discovered I'd rather talk to him about sex than mortality.
I was about Noah's age the first time I experienced the death of a loved one. I lost my paternal grandparents in a span of six weeks. And, although that was 30 years ago, tears still stream freely down my cheeks as I recall that time. Grandma was just 67 years old and died after spending more than a month in I.C.U due to injuries she incurred from being hit by a car. I still remember the night of the accident. I didn't cry because that would have meant I'd given up on ever seeing her again. Instead, upon learning she'd been hurt, I went to my room and got on my knees and began praying...though it was more like begging. I pleaded for God to let her be OK. I would do whatever He asked of me. I would be good. I promised. I may have even suggested that I'd be willing to become a nun if he would just allow her to live.
While my parents visited her regularly, I did not, as I was told children were not allowed in the I.C.U. The next time I would see her would be in a casket. She passed away on January 31, 1982...my 10th birthday. I'd never seen a dead person before. I looked at her sleeping face and concentrated hard on her waxy figure. Struggling with the reality of the situation, my eyes began playing tricks on me. I rushed up to my mom and whispered, "I think I just saw her chest move."
I was so sure there had been a mistake. My mom looked into my worried face and gently explained that I only thought I saw her move because my grief was so great. I wasn't convinced and went back to check on her again. Months later, I shared how angry I was at not being able to see her in the hospital. I believed that if I'd been given the chance to talk to her, that she would have fought harder.
During the time grandma was in the hospital, grandpa stayed with us. While grandma was boisterous and chatty and knew no strangers, grandpa was quiet, gentle and put a lot of thought into his words before he spoke. He taught me to play checkers and how to make cracker and cheese towers. He was also diabetic and had poor eye sight, balance and circulation. But, his health, never stopped him from traveling the country with grandma via Bi-State. That is, until her accident. The longer she remained in the hospital, the less interested grandpa became in games and in consuming my creations of saltines and salami with Philly cream cheese. I watched as my mother began tending to his leg sores more frequently. Bathing his bruised, discolored feet in Epsom salts soon became a daily routine.
We had to wait a week to bury grandma because Mother Nature had recently dumped three and a half feet of snow onto an already frozen surface. The day of her funeral I sat in a folding chair, shivering under a red and black plaid, fleece blanket with my parents and siblings next to me. The words of the clergyman were far away and hollow-sounding to my ears. He didn't know grandma personally and to this day I can't recall a single word from his generic benediction. That afternoon at home, dad and grandpa began arguing. It was a sight I'd never witnessed before. What happened next, would forever be branded into my long term memory. Dad had had enough talk and simply lifted his father in his arms and carried him to our family car. Grandpa wept like a child and begged his son to let him stay while I obediently followed dad outside and numbly opened the passenger door for him. After they left, mom explained that grandpa was very sick and needed to be in the hospital. His feet were dying.
At first, the doctors only removed a few toes, but within a couple of weeks, grandpa lost part of his leg. We also learned that he had cancer. Every Sunday my parents would take us to visit him. My sister and I spent most of our time in the rec room drawing pictures to cover up the sterile walls of grandpa's room. Each time we returned, he seemed smaller and less connected to the here and now. Mom explained that he was on heavy painkillers. However, when we visited him on March 14th, he was alert and even joked with us. For the first time in weeks, I felt hopeful that he would be back home with us very soon. But, when I waggled my finger at grandpa for snatching a few shamrock-shaped cookies mom had brought for us to snack on, I heard, "Andrea, he can have a few. It won't hurt him," said Mom. Her permissive words didn't sit well with me and hinted at something grim to come. Grandpa died a few days later. Though his death certificate states cancer as the cause of death, I believe he actually died from a broken heart.
Today, I am the same age my only-child dad was when he buried both of his parents. I can't even begin to fathom the grief, he was left to shoulder. I struggle with how to explain death to my children in a way that is real, but also hopeful and provides comfort rather than an increase in anxiety and nightmares. Also, who am I to tell Noah lightsabers aren't allowed in heaven.
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- Todd TevlinAugust 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Earlier this year my grandma also had passed away, the last of my grandparents. All other grandparents passed away before Nate was born, so this was his very first time experiencing death. (for those who don't know, he's 6 years old and mildly autistic.)ReplyDelete
At the funeral we fully expected the worst. We talked to him about what was going to happen before hand and he comprehended it, but talking about it and witnessing it is two different things.
Well, to our shock Nate aced the event and handled the whole thing like he was an adult. He showed more maturity in that moment than he had his entire life living with autism. He actually wanted to see GG in the casket and my wife took him up to see her and he was good with it, no outburts, etc.
The aftermath, however, was a little different. About a week later he started putting the pieces together and realized this is a natural part of life and that other people he loves will also pass away. Then he was a little besides himself at that point and we had a couple of rough days dealing with it because he was really upset that his granddad (my father-in-law, his favorite) was also going to pass away eventually.
The funeral was in February, but he still obsesses about the subject, drawing pictures and talking about death a lot (mostly in a fantasy setting.) I know this is how he's processing it, so hopefully like every other thing he obsesses about due to the autism that he'll soon move on and then we'll be back to normal.
It's sad to see a piece of his innocence go away like this, but that's what growing up is all about unfortunately.
Death is a hard subject and yes sex does seem easier to talk about. I lost my first grandparent at 12 years old and I remember grieving for years and years. I loved my nanna she was the sweetest, kindest lady. She died of a blood clot in her brain so no one had time to say goodbye. I think I grieved for so long because I was so young and really didn't know how to handle it.ReplyDelete


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In part 1 of this post, we learned how to design tile updates and choose the templates to match the content you want to show on your live tile. We got the app set up with a wide default tile and now we're ready to start updating our tiles. Now, we dive straight into the code. First, we'll see how to set up polling on our Contoso Food Trucks app tile, including what our web service code looks like. Then we add a secondary tile to the app and update it using the NotificationsExtension library provided in the Windows 8 SDK App tiles and badges sample. Let's get right to it!
Choosing delivery method for a notification
Now that I know what I want the tiles to look like (see part 1 for a refresher) I need to figure out when to update them.
There are 4 ways that an app can update its tile (see Choosing a notification delivery method in the Dev Center). Apps can use local notifications to update their tile, which is useful if info changes while the app is running. Apps can schedule tile and toast updates to happen at precise times. Also, apps can use push or polling tile notifications to update their tiles from the cloud while they are not running. Polling is great for low-frequency broadcast content. Push is great for sending toast notifications, which need to arrive immediately, or tile updates that are targeted to individual users. In this post, I focus on polling updates and local updates.
Polling for nearby food trucks
Our app has two different kinds of info to update the tile with. The most important is the food trucks near the default lunch location of a user. Users set their default location for lunch inside the app when it runs. I use that default location info to update the tile and let the user know about food trucks near that location. The images here show the tiles for the app from part 1 of the post. Now let's look at how to use polling to get these tiles to show up on our app's tile.
Food trucks typically stay in one place for the entire day, or at least during the lunch hours. Because the locations of the food trucks don't change often, I don't need to update the tile in real time. Because of this, I can rule out push notifications, which are more useful for time-sensitive notifications. But I want this data to update at least once a day, so using periodic notifications that poll my web service for changes is my best option.
Client implementation: polling for nearby food trucks
The client-side implementation to set up periodic notifications takes just a few lines of code. We call TileUpdater.startPeriodicUpdate each time a user launches the app or switches to it. This causes the URI passed to the API to be polled immediately and the tile to be updated at each app launch or switch. This is because the API call immediately reaches out to the cloud service URI and updates the tile. This behavior is very useful for debugging – we can test the polling of our cloud service without waiting for the next polling interval.
The real question is what URI to provide to the startPeriodicUpdate API. In our case, I want to tell our cloud service to update the tile with info about a specific location. To protect the user's location info, I don't want to send out the exact location of the user to our service. Instead, I identify locations by the zip code that user provides within the app.
To pass the zip code up to my web service, I attach a query string on the end of the polling URI to let our cloud service know which location to put on the tile:
In response to an HTTP GET of this URI, our web service returns the formatted tile notification XML for the zip code provided on the URI. Here's the code to set up the polling, with the zip code hardcoded into the URI string.
// update the tile poll URI
var notifications = Windows.UI.Notifications;
var polledUri = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("http://www.contoso.com/foodtrucks/tile.xml?zipcode=98052");
var recurrence = notifications.PeriodicUpdateRecurrence.hour;
var tileUpdater = notifications.TileUpdateManager.createTileUpdaterForApplication();
tileUpdater.startPeriodicUpdate(polledUri, recurrence);
// update the tile poll URI
using Windows.UI.Notifications;
Uri polledUri = new Uri("http://www.contoso.com/foodtrucks/tile.xml?zipcode=98052");
PeriodicUpdateRecurrence recurrence = PeriodicUpdateRecurrence.Hour;
TileUpdateManager.CreateTileUpdaterForApplication().StartPeriodicUpdate(polledUri, recurrence);
Because a food truck can move during the day, I want to update the tile fairly frequently. In our case, I use an update interval of one hour to balance between load on our backend service and freshness of the info on the tile.
After I call the startPeriodicUpdate API once, the tile continues to update once an hour, even if our app is not running. If I ever want to change the URI to poll, I just have to call the API again with a different URI. For example, if the user changes their default location to a different zip code, I update the URI with the correct zip code by calling startPeriodicUpdate again. If the user ever clears their default location, or wants to stop tile updates, the app can stop periodic updates by calling stopPeriodicUpdate API.
For more info about how to use the startPeriodicUpdate API see Push and periodic notifications client-side sample, and How to set up periodic notifications for tiles in the Dev Center.
Server implementation: polling for nearby food trucks
We can implement the server side of our polled tile in nearly any service technology. Here I show some example PHP and ASP.NET code.
When our web service is polled, it must respond to the HTTP GET request with XML that fits the tile XML schema. You can also use HTTPS so that the web service can protect the content as it's sent over the wire. Cookies are not supported. All info that your service needs to respond to the request must be included as part of the URI. For that reason, our app uses query strings to pass the zip code.
In the PHP code we look at next, I abstract away the access of our web service's database. In real working code, the trucks variable returned by get_trucks_from_database() function would contain all of the info the web service needs to fill the tile template for a specified zip code. I simplified this service example code a bit, to focus on the XML the service will return. A real world web service deployment would consider performance, scalability, security, and a more maintainable architecture.
// set default query string parameters
// process query string and set parameters
$zipcode = $_GET['zipcode'];
$zipcode = 'default';
// get item info from our database
// - this is placeholder code that you need to replace in a real implementation
// - the return value is a multidimensional array of the long and short strings
// to place in the tile template
$trucks = get_trucks_from_database($zipcode);
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>'?>
<binding template="TileWideText01">
<text id="1">Food Trucks Near You</text>
<text id="2"><?php echo $trucks[0][0]?></text>
<text id="3"><?php echo $trucks[0][1]?></text>
<text id="4"><?php echo $trucks[0][2]?></text>
<binding template="TileSquareText03">
<text id="1">Near You</text>
<text id="2"><?php echo $trucks[1][0]?></text>
<text id="3"><?php echo $trucks[1][1]?></text>
The next code example is equivalent to the PHP code we just looked at. This ASP.NET Web Pages example shows a quick implementation of a tile service. For a full featured ASP.NET service, you would probably want to use the new ASP.NET Web API. ASP.NET Web API is built specifically for HTTP services like this. For more information about ASP.NET Web API, see http://www.asp.net/web-api.
// set default query string parameters
// process query string and set parameters
var zipcode = Request["zipcode"] ?? "default";
// get item info from our database
// - this is placeholder code that you need to replace in a real implementation
// - the return value is a multidimensional array of the long and short strings
// to place in the tile template
var trucks = get_trucks_from_database(zipcode);
}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>'?>
<binding template="TileWideText01">
<text id="1">Food Trucks Near You</text>
<text id="2">@trucks[0,0]</text>
<text id="2">@trucks[0,1]</text>
<binding template="TileSquareText03">
<text id="1">Near You</text>
<text id="2">@trucks[1,0]</text>
<text id="2">@trucks[1,1]</text>
Favorite food trucks
Until now we looked at the content the app shows on the main tile. But sometimes a user would want to have a tile on their Start screen to track a specific food truck. In our app, I use the app bar to allow the user to pin a specific food truck to Start. These pinned tiles are called secondary tiles. After a user pins a secondary tile, we update that tile with info about that particular food truck by sending notifications to that tile.
Pinning a food truck tile
Pinning tiles allows our app to give a user direct access to specific content in our app from the Start screen. Secondary tiles can be used to launch our app directly into the part of the app that deals with the food truck that a user pinned.
Pinned tiles can be created only from within an app. Users expect to be able to pin tiles by invoking the app bar. The app bar includes a standard a push-pin icon to indicate that users can pin the content in view.
When the user taps the pin button, a flyout appears, showing a preview of the tile about to be pinned:
Now we need to:
- Add an app bar to the app, including the pin icon for the "Pin to Start" and "Unpin from Start" actions
- Implement an event handler to the click of the app bar pin/unpin button
- Add the app-specific logic to pin the new tile in response to the pin/unpin action
We won't look at the first two steps for creating the app bar so we can focus on pinning the tiles themselves. You can find the details of how to implement the app bar here:
In step 3, our app creates the secondary tile by setting a few properties.
// Keep track of your secondary tiles with a unique ID
var nomNomTile = "SecondaryTile.NomNom";
// Set properties on the tile
var logo = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("ms-appx:///images/NomNomTruck-Logo.png");
var smallLogo = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("ms-appx:///images/NomNomTruck-SmallLogo.png");
var wideLogo = new Windows.Foundation.Uri("ms-appx:///images/NomNomTruck-WideLogo.png");
var TileActivationArguments = "TruckName=NomNom";
// Create the secondary tile
var tile = new Windows.UI.StartScreen.SecondaryTile(nomNomTile,
"Nom Nom",
"Nom Nom Barbecue Truck",
tile.foregroundText = Windows.UI.StartScreen.ForegroundText.light;
tile.smallLogo = smallLogo;
// Request the user's permission to create the secondary tile
// - we return the promise here, assuming that this code is embedded
// in a larger function.
// See the Windows 8 SDK Secondary Tiles sample for more info:
// http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Secondary-Tiles-Sample-edf2a178
return new WinJS.Promise(function (complete, error, progress) {
tile.requestCreateAsync().then(function (isCreated) {
if (isCreated) {
} else {
// Keep track of your secondary tiles with a unique ID
const string nomNomTile = "SecondaryTile.NomNom";
// Set properties on the tile
Uri logo = new Uri("ms-appx:///images/NomNomTruck-Logo.png");
Uri smallLogo = new Uri("ms-appx:///images/NomNomTruck-SmallLogo.png");
Uri wideLogo = new Uri("ms-appx:///images/NomNomTruck-WideLogo.png");
string tileActivationArguments = "TruckName=NomNom";
// Create the secondary tile object
SecondaryTile secondaryTile = new SecondaryTile(nomNomTile,
"Nom Nom",
"Nom Nom Barbecue Truck",
secondaryTile.ForegroundText = Windows.UI.StartScreen.ForegroundText.Light;
secondaryTile.SmallLogo = smallLogo;
// Request the user's permission to create the secondary tile
// - this code assumes that this code was called within an event handler which has
// a 'sender' parameter.
// See the Windows 8 SDK Secondary Tiles sample for more info:
// http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Secondary-Tiles-Sample-edf2a178
await secondaryTile.RequestCreateForSelectionAsync(MainPage.GetElementRect((FrameworkElement)se
nder), Windows.UI.Popups.Placement.Right);
For more info on how to pin secondary tiles, see Guidelines and checklist for secondary tiles and Secondary tiles Consumer Preview sample.
Using local notifications to update the pinned tile
The pinned tile is an additional tile for our app to update on Start. Updating this tile is no different than updating the app's main tile. In this app I use the local notification APIs to update the secondary tiles while the app is running, instead of using one of the cloud update mechanisms. I show local notifications here so that I can demonstrate how it works. You can update from the cloud in a similar way. This app could have easily implemented polling scenario too.
In the code in this section, I use the NotificationsExtensions library which is included with the Windows 8 SDK App tiles and badges sample. You can include this library in your app projects to make updating tiles locally easier. The library provides an object model on top of the Windows tile-update APIs which allows you to avoid manipulating XML from within your JavaScript, C#, and C++ apps. It also makes developing easier by providing IntelliSense.
Using the local notification APIs, I can update the tile any time the app is running. For the pinned food truck tiles, I want to update the tile with any deals the particular food truck offers, every time a user launches the app.
Enumerating secondary tiles
Because a user can unpin secondary tiles from Start while our app is not running, the first thing the app needs to do at launch is look for its currently pinned secondary tiles. Each enumerated tile contains a tileId, which uniquely identifies it. Because the app sets the tileId when it is created, we can use the ID to know how to update each tile we find. Here's how:
// Get secondary tile ids
Windows.UI.StartScreen.SecondaryTile.findAllAsync().done(function (tiles) {
if (tiles) {
tiles.forEach(function (tile) {
switch (tile.tileId) {
case nomNomTile:
// add cases for all the food trucks this app supports
// Get secondary tile ids
IReadOnlyList<SecondaryTile> tilelist = await
foreach (var tile in tilelist)
switch (tile.TileId)
case nomNomTile:
// add cases for all the food trucks this app supports
Local updates
For each of the pinned food truck tiles, I update the tile with the current info about where that truck is for the day. If I was using local updates to update the main tile, we wouldn't need to enumerate the secondary tiles first because the default action in the API is to update the calling app's main tile. Just to remind you, here is what the tiles from the app we looked at in Part 1 look like.
Here is the function that we called in our enumeration, which actually sends the notification to the secondary tile.
function updateNomNomTruck() {
// Business logic for retrieving Nom Nom BBQ truck deals
// ...
var result = "Washer Ave and 3rd until 3";
// We can send a notification only for a tile that is pinned.
// Lets make sure the tile is pinned before we try to send the notification.
if (Windows.UI.StartScreen.SecondaryTile.exists(nomNomTile)) {
// Construct the wide template
var wideTile =
wideTile.image.src = "http://www.contoso.com/foodtrucks/nomnombbq.png";
wideTile.textCaption1.text = "Nom Nom Barbecue Truck";
wideTile.textCaption2.text = result;
// Construct the square template
var squareTile =
squareTile.image.src = "http://www.contoso.com/foodtrucks/nomnombbq.png";
squareTile.textBodyWrap.text = "Nom Nom @ " + result;
// Attach the square template to the notification
wideTile.squareContent = squareTile;
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private void updateNomNomTruck()
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Akinetic Versus Dyskinetic Postinfarction Scar: Relation to Surgical Outcome in Patients Undergoing Endoventricular Circular Patch Plasty Repair
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- Received July 15, 1996
- Revision received January 24, 1997
- Accepted February 20, 1997
- Published online June 1, 1997.
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- Marisa Di Donato, MDA,*,
- Michel Sabatier, MDB,
- Vincent Dor, MDB,
- Anna Toso, MDAB,
- Mauro Maioli, MDAB and
- Fabio Fantini, MDAB
- ↵*Dr. Marisa Di Donato, Via dei Fossi 12, 50123 Firenze, Italy.
Objectives. This retrospective study attempted to relate surgical outcome with the extent and type of preoperative wall motion asynergy in patients with postinfarction myocardial scar who underwent endoventricular circular patch plasty repair and associated coronary grafting.
Background. Left ventricular (LV) pump function improvement is difficult to predict after aneurysmectomy, for either akinetic or dyskinetic scar, and previous studies have reported that the absence of paradoxic systolic motion correlates with higher operative mortality and no improvement in pump function.
Methods. Two hundred forty-five patients who underwent endoventricular circular patch plasty repair and associated coronary grafting were retrospectively selected if they had technically adequate right and left anterior LV angiograms before the operation. All had right and left cardiac catheterization. The centerline method was applied to preoperative right anterior oblique LV angiography to assess the absolute motion of the chords and the percent length of the perimeter showing a fractional shortening <2 SD from the normal mean value (extent of asynergy ([A%]).
Results. The overall perioperative mortality rate was 6%; 120 patients had akinetic and 125 had dyskinetic scar, and no differences were found among the groups in terms of all the clinical and hemodynamic variables collected in the study. Patients with a large scar (A% >60), either akinetic or dyskinetic, had a higher perioperative mortality rate (12%) than patients with a small scar (2.2%). After the operation, the ejection fraction (EF) increased from 36 ± 13% to 50 ± 13% (mean ± SD), and pulmonary pressures significantly decreased. End-diastolic volume decreased from 199 ± 75 to 89 ± 36 ml/m2. Patients with a large akinetic scar had the most severely impaired preoperative function (largest ventricular volumes and highest pulmonary mean pressure); nevertheless, they had an impressive improvement in function (EF from 25 ± 9% to 41 ± 12%), not different from that observed with large dyskinetic scarring (EF from 26 ± 7% to 46 ± 11%).
Conclusions. Surgical outcome of endoventricular circular patch plasty repair for postinfarction myocardial scar relates to the extent of LV asynergy rather than to the presence or absence of dyskinesia. Patients with a large akinetic scar and severely depressed pump function benefit from a relatively simple surgical procedure previously reserved only for dyskinetic aneurysm. The reduction of wall tension and oxygen demand, owing to the marked decrease of volumes, and the increase in oxygen supply, owing to revascularization, may play a major role in improving pump function.
(J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;29:1569–75)
Large anterior myocardial infarction (MI) results in either akinetic scar or dyskinetic aneurysm. Left ventricular (LV) aneurysmectomy has been performed for many years; however, improvement in function is difficult to predict ([1–3]).
Previous studies have demonstrated that a dyskinetic aneurysm, in contrast to an akinetic aneurysm, is associated with better postoperative improvement in LV function and lower operative mortality ([1, 4, 5]). However, the terms dyskinetic and akinetic are difficult to quantify, and studies have shown obvious limitations in the detection of these wall motion abnormalities by cineangiography ([6, 7]). A critical, quantitative analysis of ventricular dimensions and function is lacking in the published data, and in most series the type and degree of asynergy are qualitatively based on the cardiologist's reading of cineangiography.
In the present study we have applied the centerline method ([8]) to the preoperative LV angiograms. This method has the advantage of measuring motion along locally determined vectors and requires no apex, origin, coordinate system or geometric reference points. Moreover, the extent of regional abnormalities can also be determined (percent LV contour). The purpose of this retrospective study was to quantitatively define regional function and to assess its potential relation to surgical outcome. We made a distinction between akinetic and dyskinetic scarring based on the absolute motion at centerline analysis, and between large and small scarring based on the extent of LV perimeter involved by the asynergy. All our patients were treated surgically with endoventricular circular patch plasty repair and septal exclusion and associated coronary grafting.
1 Methods
1.1 Patients.
Between July 1987 and March 1996, 562 patients underwent endoventricular patch plasty repair and coronary grafting for postinfarction LV aneurysm at the Cardiothoracique Center of Monaco. Two-hundred forty-five patients were retrospectively selected according to the following criteria: 1) anterior LV aneurysm; 2) preoperative high quality LV angiograms in right and left anterior oblique projections; 3) absence of ventricular ectopic beats during angiography; 4) a grid filmed on the patient's chest for magnification correction factor; and 5) postoperative hemodynamic study in surviving patients.
The clinical characteristics of the study group are reported in Table 1. All patients had right and left heart catheterization and angiography before the operation. Drugs were discontinued before the hemodynamic study unless contraindicated by clinical conditions. Cardiac output was calculated by the thermodilution method; ventricular volumes were measured by the Chapman method ([9]); ejection fraction (EF) was derived; and contractile EF (EFc) was determined according to the method described by Louagie et al. ([10, 11]). One hundred eighty-two patients had preoperative electrophysiologic study to evaluate inducible ventricular tachycardia. The protocol, described in previous reports ([12]), included ventricular pacing up to 200 beats/min at the right ventricular apex, and one or two extrastimuli at two basic cycle lengths (500 and 600 ms). Postoperative hemodynamic study included right and left heart catheterization in all surviving patients; postoperative electrophysiologic study was performed using an identical protocol in 145 patients. Preoperative regional wall motion was quantitatively analyzed using the centerline method (right anterior oblique 30° projection). Left ventricular aneurysm was defined as "dyskinetic" if absolute motion of contiguous chords was less than zero and "akinetic" if equal to zero. The involvement of the septum was qualitatively evaluated from the left anterior oblique 45° projection, as absolute motion. The extent of asynergy (A%) was calculated as the percent length of the LV perimeter showing a fractional shortening <2 SD from the normal mean values.
To assess the potential relation to surgical outcome of the extent as well as the type of asynergy, LV aneurysm was considered small if A% was <60 and large if it was >60%. In a previous report ([13]) of 41 patients with postinfarction anterior LV aneurysm, we found a strict, inverse, linear correlation between A% and EF (r = 0.95, p < 0.001). In that series A% ≥60 corresponded to an EF <40%; therefore, in the present series we chose 60% as the threshold potentially able to distinguish patients with severe disease and we conveniently defined them as having a "small" or "large" aneurysm. Thus, patients were classified into four subgroups: group 1= small dyskinetic; group 2= large dyskinetic; group 3= small akinetic; and group 4= large akinetic LV aneurysm. A coronary angiogram was obtained in all patients, and the extent and severity of coronary artery disease (jeopardy score) was evaluated according to Califf et al. ([14]). Table 2shows the clinical characteristics by group.
1.2 Statistical Analysis.
All data are expressed as mean value ± SD. Univariate analysis of potential determinants of outcome was done by the Pearson chi-square test for categoric variables and by one-way analysis of variance (with Bonferroni correction) for contiguous variables. To analyze predictors of perioperative mortality, we proceeded in a stepwise manner beginning first with the identification of clinical, demographic and hemodynamic variables collected in the study. These variables were then screened using univariate statistical methods, in which variables identified as univariately predictive of mortality were entered into stepwise, linear discriminant analysis. Univariate screening, between survivors and nonsurvivors, consisted in analyzing the significance of the difference of means of continuous variables (ttest) or distribution of dichotomous variables (chi-square test or Fisher exact test), or when the data were not normally distributed, by nonparametric tests (McNemar test, Friedman test). Variables that were significant at univariate analysis (p = 0.05) were then entered in the multiple regression logistic analysis (backward stepwise).
1.3 Surgical Technique.
The technique has been described in detail in previous papers ([15, 16]). Briefly, the procedure is performed under total cardiac arrest with cristalloid or blood cold cardioplegia. Coronary revascularization is first performed with one or two internal mammary arteries almost always on the left anterior descending coronary artery, followed by venous grafting on the possibly narrowed right and left circumflex coronary arteries. Then the LV is opened on the center of the depressed area, and mobilization and resection of the endocardial scar is performed. Cryotherapy is then applied to the edge of resection in patients with clinical and/or inducible ventricular arrhythmias. The limit between normal and fibrous muscle is encircled by a 2-0 monofilament suture passed on the limit of the endocardial fibrous tissue to restore from the inside a normal curvature of the muscle; this gives the size of the patch used to rebuild the ventricle. This Dacron or hemicircular autologous patch, modeled in the septal scar with a septal hinge, is anchored inside the ventricle on the sound myocardial tissue, thus reducing the circularity of the cavity. Excluded external tissues are folded to reinforce the suture line. The intraventricular anchorage of the patch differs slightly in patients with dyskinetic and akinetic scar in that in well demarcated scar the patch is anchored at the limit between scar and sound tissue, but in patients with large, poorly demarcated scar with severely myocardial dysfunction, the limit is not as evident as in discrete aneurysm; therefore, the anchorage of the patch is the surgeon's decision depending on the size of the ventricle that has to be left.
2 Results
2.1 Preoperative Data.
Based on preoperative ventricular angiography, 120 patients had akinetic and 125 had dyskinetic scar (Table 1). The interventricular septum was akinetic in 141 and dyskinetic in 42 patients. The groups were not significantly different in terms of functional classification, symptoms, indication for surgical treatment, delay from MI or other variables collected in the study. Mean pulmonary wedge pressure was significantly higher in akinetic LV aneurysm.
When considering A%, 84 patients had a small dyskinetic scar (group 1), 41 patients a large dyskinetic scar (group 2), 72 patients had a small akinetic scar (group 3) and 48 patients had a large akinetic scar (group 4). No significant differences were found in terms of age, gender, coronary score and delay from MI among the groups. Table 2shows the baseline clinical characteristics by group. Table 3shows preoperative and postoperative hemodynamic data in patients divided according to the type and extent of LV aneurysm. Preoperative EF and EFc were significantly lower and ventricular volumes significantly greater in large compared with small LV aneurysm (either akinetic or dyskinetic). Mean capillary wedge pressure (CWP) and mean pulmonary pressure were higher in group 4 (large akinetic LV aneurysm) with respect to large dyskinetic and small LV aneurysm (p = 0.001).
2.2 Operative Results.
The mortality rate in our total experience was 6.8% (38 of 562 patients) and 6% in the selected series (15 of 245 patients). Patients with a large LV aneurysm had a significantly higher mortality rate (12.2% and 12.5% in groups 2 and 4, respectively), compared with 4.8% and 0% in groups 1 and 3, respectively (p = 0.015). Table 4reports surgical procedures by group.
Fig. 1shows examples of preoperative centerline analysis in patients with large and small dyskinetic (A) and akinetic LV aneurysms (B). Thirty-one patients had emergency operations. All patients had associated coronary grafting; 161 patients had coronary venous grafting; the internal mammary artery was used in 208 (85%) of 245 patients, almost always on the left anterior descending coronary artery; and revascularization of the territory of the aneurysm was performed in 92% of patients. As shown in Table 3, in each group there was a significant increase in postoperative EF and a significant decrease in volumes, as well as a significant reduction in CWP and pulmonary pressure.
The absolute increase in EF was significantly higher in patients with a large LV aneurysm and lower preoperative EF; a weak but significant correlation was found between the increase in EF and the decrease in end-diastolic volume (r = 0.27, p < 0.0001); 145 surviving patients were studied electrophysiologically after the operation with an identical protocol. The rate of inducible ventricular tachycardia was 19% (6/32) in patients with a large akinetic LV aneurysm compared with 7% (4/60) and 6% (3/53) in groups 1 and 3, respectively (p = 0.001). No patient with a large dyskinetic LV aneurysm had postoperative inducible ventricular tachycardia. Variables that significantly differentiated survivors from early deaths are listed in Table 5. The extent of asynergy but not the type of aneurysm (dyskinetic vs. akinetic) was significant on univariate analysis. On multivariate analysis preoperative cardiac index, mean pulmonary artery pressure and the presence of renal insufficiency (creatine kinase levels >1.8 mg/dl) resulted in independent predictors of early mortality.
3 Discussion
3.1 Akinesia Versus Dyskinesia: Role of Asynergy Extension.
It has been assumed that a dyskinetic aneurysm produces a greater volume of stress on the contractile myocardium; therefore, its resection should predict an improvement in LV function after aneurysmectomy, whereas the absence of paradoxic systolic motion correlates with higher operative mortality and no improvement in function. In fact, some investigators ([1, 5, 17]) found no improvement in akinetic LV aneurysm when compared with dyskinetic LV aneurysm; some did not even find a reduction of end-diastolic volume (EDV) after aneurysmectomy with linear suture in akinetic LV aneurysm, and tried to explain it as the result of poorly demarcated scarring that makes adequate resection difficult, or of postoperative dilation. Our results are not in agreement with those studies because of the surgical technique used (i.e., patch repair vs. other aneurysm closure). Endoventricular circular patch plasty repair improves left ventricular function mainly by restoring ventricular geometry ([18–21]); the associated coronary revascularization and cryotherapy, when indicated for ventricular arrhythmias, further improves clinical status. In the present study we wished to assess whether the presence or absence of dyskinesia had effects on mortality and on functional outcome, and we found that patients with a large akinetic LV aneurysm who had the most severely impaired preoperative cardiac function in respect to all groups (largest ventricular volumes and highest mean pulmonary pressures) benefit from aneurysm repair as much as those with dyskinetic aneurysm.
The goal of aneurysmectomy is to reduce EDV and thereby regional wall tension ([17]); accordingly, a correlation was found between the decrease in EDV and the increase in EF, in our series as well as that of others. Therefore, it is not surprising that patients with a large EDV should experience greater and more favorable hemodynamic changes than other patients with smaller volumes. In the present study we have demonstrated that surgical outcome, both in terms of functional improvement and of early mortality, depends on A% and accordingly on EDV, and not on the presence or absence of paradoxic motion.
3.2 Postinfarction Scar and Left Ventricular Remodeling.
Infarct expansion or aneurysm formation after MI leads to a "vicious cycle," which is now well established ([22]). This understanding is based on the realization that infarct expansion or aneurysm formation has drastic effects not only on the infarct zone, but also on the remote, viable, contractile muscle ([23–25]). In one of our previous reports ([26]), by studying regional pressure–length loops, we described great abnormalities in contraction, relaxation and filling phases in nonischemic zones remote from the aneurysm. After endoventricular circular patch plasty repair the same patients showed a net improvement in regional pressure–length loops, mainly in nonischemic regions, as well as in global pump function. Thus, on the basis of the morphologic and functional results in our patients, we confirm that aneurysm patch repair reduces ventricular volumes even in large akinetic scars, thereby reducing wall tension and oxygen demand, and it may interrupt the deleterious vicious cycle. In one of our previous studies ([27]), 5-year survival in patients with severely depressed pump function who underwent patch plasty repair was 80% with a late mortality rate of 2% per year.
3.3 Predictors of Perioperative Mortality.
The risk factors for early mortality identified on univariate analysis in the present study are representative of other previously published data. In contrast, we did not find the extent of coronary artery disease (evaluated both as number of diseased vessels and as coronary score) or left main coronary stenosis to be a risk factor for mortality ([28, 29]). Although the nonuse of the mammary artery on the left anterior descending coronary artery was more frequent in nonsurviving patients (Table 5), the extent of revascularization performed was not found to be predictive of risk, and this is probably due to a policy of complete revascularization in our patients. We could not even find differences related to the presence or absence of ventricular arrhythmias, as reported by others ([4, 30, 31]) who consider patients with aneurysm and arrhythmias at high risk for surgical repair. This may be due to the fact that there were very few patients in our series with intractable spontaneous ventricular tachycardia, as a single indication for the operation.
Independent predictors of mortality in the present study turned out to be some clinical and hemodynamic factors that were easy to measure, such as preoperative cardiac index (≤2.1 liter/min per m2), mean pulmonary artery pressure (≥33 mm Hg) and renal insufficiency (creatinine level ≥1.8 mg/dl).
3.4 Conclusions.
Our retrospective study demonstrates that patients with a large akinetic postinfarction scar and severely depressed preoperative pump function benefit from aneurysm patch repair as much as those with a dyskinetic aneurysm.
- Abbreviations
- extent of asynergy
- capillary wedge pressure
- end-diastolic volume
- ejection fraction
- EFc
- contractile ejection fraction
- left ventricular
- myocardial infarction
- Received July 15, 1996.
- Revision received January 24, 1997.
- Accepted February 20, 1997.
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"Sope" translates to soup bowl in Spanish. Masa harina, which is the corn flour used to make tortillas, is the same flour you will be using to make sopes. Follow the instructions on the package, but remember to season your mixture with salt and add a touch of spice. Chipotle powder, cumin, coriander or curry powder: By adding one of these spices you will elevate the flavor.
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Form a ball then flatten it out with the palm of your hands and create a wall around the pattie, like a soup bowl.
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Europeans' addiction to cash has cost them billions of euros in potential investment performance over the last five years. But what is the asset management industry doing to encourage greater engagement at a time when governments are looking for ways of transferring the responsibility for financial health in retirement onto the shoulders of their citizens?
Cash is perceived to be the safest asset but, with interest rates at zero or negative, the hope of getting a return on cash is not only difficult but false. With a little inflation, positive real returns are erased. An asset that is guaranteed to lose you money in real terms is not riskless; it is another risky asset class. But, despite this obvious fact, Europeans are still hooked on cash. In the US, the average household has 17% of its assets in cash, while in Europe the equivalent figure is 36%1, 19 percentage points higher. The European situation has hardly moved in the last two to three years – cash levels remain stubbornly high.
The problem is twofold. Asset managers are missing out on a huge pot of cash savings that they could allocate more effectively, performing a vital public service at the same time. Meanwhile, households are saving inefficiently. Through a lack of awareness, apathy or an excessively risk-averse approach, they are reducing their future wealth. In a world where governments will be less able to provide for the old-age population, optimising the potential of savings really matters.
Percentages have little relevance to most real people, so let's take some examples. A back-of-the-envelope calculation reveals that if Euro area households had the same percentage cash allocations as in the US, each household would have around €23,000 more to invest. This might seem a small amount but with around 150m households in the Euro area 2 the aggregate total comes to over €3trn – a substantial pot of money for the industry if it were all invested in funds. But what would these households gain from this?
We've taken a look at the five-year returns on some examples of the largest and most popular funds that a retail investor could have bought with this money.3 If they had invested it all in Carmignac's popular Patrimoine fund they would have added €4,200 to their savings pot. If they had bought Nordea's Stable Return they would have done even better, adding an extra €8,600. Other examples include Templeton's Global Bond fund (€3,600), Vanguard's European Stock Index fund (€8,200) and M&G's Optimal Income fund (€6,200). Yes, these funds carry varying degrees of risk but the upside is too significant to be ignored. Lack of knowledge and understanding is restricting the ability of individuals to build greater financial security for their retirement.
There is a strong commercial imperative here to gather more clients (and assets) and the industry needs to find a way to engage these people. More importantly, there is a social need to extend the benefits of long-term savings to the whole population, no matter the amounts they can afford – the industry's services need to be extended beyond the wealthiest 10%. As stated in the latest report from the CFA Society of the UK, a key part of the value of the investment profession is that it 'enables access to greater investment opportunities than might otherwise be available.'4
The industry spends a lot of time arguing over fee levels and transparency, active vs passive and smart beta. While these debates should gradually lead to a better retail product offering, there is a risk that in the meantime another generation remains turned off, distrustful of fund investment, and missing out on better savings. Ultimately, any longer-term saving by Europeans with excess cash must be a good thing for individuals and society as a whole, making a real difference to standards of living in retirement.


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Official repositories
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A software repository is a storage location from which software packages may be retrieved and installed on a computer. Arch Linux package maintainers (developers and Trusted Users) maintain a number of official repositories containing software packages for essential and popular software, readily accessible via pacman. This article outlines those officially-supported repositories.
Historical background
Most of the repository splits are for historical reasons. Originally, when Arch Linux was used by very few users, there was only one repository known as [official] (now [core]). At the time, [official] basically contained Judd Vinet's preferred applications. It was designed to contain one of each "type" of program -- one DE, one major browser, etc.
There were users back then that did not like Judd's selection, so since the Arch Build System is so easy to use, they created packages of their own. These packages went into a repository called [unofficial], and were maintained by developers other than Judd. Eventually, the two repositories were both considered equally supported by the developers, so the names [official] and [unofficial] no longer reflected their true purpose. They were subsequently renamed to [current] and [extra] sometime near the release version 0.5.
Shortly after the 2007.8.1 release, [current] was renamed [core] in order to prevent confusion over what exactly it contains. The repositories are now more or less equal in the eyes of the developers and the community, but [core] does have some differences. The main distinction is that packages used for Installation CDs and release snapshots are taken only from [core]. This repository still gives a complete Linux system, though it may not be the Linux system you want.
Now, sometime around 0.5 or 0.6, they found there were a lot of packages that the developers did not want to maintain. One of the developers (Xentac) set up the "Trusted User Repositories", which were unofficial repositories in which trusted users could place packages they had created. There was a [staging] repository where packages could be promoted into the official repositories by one of the Arch Linux developers, but other than this, the developers and trusted users were more or less distinct.
This worked for a while, but not when trusted users got bored with their repositories, and not when untrusted users wanted to share their own packages. This led to the development of the AUR. The TUs were conglomerated into a more closely knit group, and they now collectively maintain the [community] repository. The Trusted Users are still a separate group from the Arch Linux developers, and there is not a lot of communication between them. However, popular packages are still promoted from [community] to [extra] on occasion. The AUR also supports allowing untrusted users to submit PKGBUILDs for other users to use if they wish. These packages are unsupported, and the packages are sometimes called the [unsupported] repository, though since no binary packages are distributed, unsupported is not really a repository. Trusted users can adopt packages from unsupported into [community] at their discretion, whether it is because the package is popular or because they are interested in maintaining it.
After a kernel in [core] broke many user systems the "core signoff policy" was introduced, since then all package updates for [core] need to go through a [testing] repository first, only after multiple signoffs from other developers they were allowed to move. Over time it was noticed various [core] packages have low usage and user signoffs or even lack of bugreports became informally accepted as criteria to accept such packages. Late 2009/begin 2010, with the advent of some new filesystems (and the desire to support them during installation) and the realization that the [core] repository was never clearly defined (just "important packages, handpicked by developers") - although some developers required "enough usage among developers to warrant signoffs" before adoption into [core] - the repository received a more accurate description (see below).
The [core] repository can be found in core/os/i686 or core/os/x86_64 on your favorite mirror. It has fairly strict quality requirements:
- developers and/or users need to signoff on updates before package updates are accepted.
- for packages with low usage a reasonable exposure (as in: inform people about update, request signoffs, keep in testing for a few days up to a week depending on the severity of the change) lack of outstanding bugreports, along with the implicit signoff of the package maintainer is enough).
It contains packages which:
- are needed to boot any kind of supported Arch system.
- may be needed to connect to the internet.
- are essential for package building.
- can manage and check/repair supported filesystems.
- virtually anyone will want or need early in the system setup process (like openssh).
- are dependencies (but not necessarily makedepends) of the above.
This repository is included in the core installation media, so you can build a fully working base system without internet access.
The [extra] repository can be found in extra/os/i686 or extra/os/x86_64 on your favorite mirror. It contains all packages that do not fit in [core]
Example: X.org, window managers, web servers, media players, languages like Python and Ruby, and a lot more.
The [community] repository can be found in community/os/i686 or community/os/x86_64 on your favorite mirror. It is maintained by the Trusted Users (TUs) and is part of the Arch User Repository (AUR). It contains packages from the AUR that have enough votes and were adopted by a TU.
The multilib repository can be found in multilib/os/x86_64 on your favorite mirror. It contains 32 bit libraries that can be used to run 32 bit applications like the flash plugin and skype in 64 bit installation.
The [testing] repository can be found in testing/os/i686 on your favorite mirror. [testing] is special because it contains packages that are candidates for the [core] or [extra] repositories. New packages go into [testing] if:
- they are expected to break something on update and need to be tested first
- they require other packages to be rebuilt. In this case, all packages that need to be rebuilt are put into [testing] first and when all rebuilds are done, they are moved back to the other repositories.
[testing] is the only repository that can have name collisions with any of the other official repositories. If enabled, it has to be the first repository listed in your
/etc/pacman.conf file.
The [testing] repository is not for the "newest of the new" package versions. Part of its purpose is to hold package updates that have the potential to cause system breakage, either by being part of the [core] set of packages, or by being critical in other ways. As such, users of the [testing] repository are strongly encouraged to subscribe to the arch-dev-public mailing list, watch the [testing] Repository Forum, and to report all bugs to the bug tracker.
If you enable testing, you must also enable community-testing.
The [community-testing] repository is like the [testing] repository but for packages that are candidates for the [community] repository.
If you enable community-testing, you must also enable testing.
The [multilib-testing] repository is like the [testing] repository but for packages that are candidates for the [multilib] repository.
If you enable multilib-testing, you must also enable testing.
[unsupported] a.k.a The AUR
[unsupported] is the web based repository that is commonly referred to as the AUR, or Arch User Repository.* Users can submit source packages containing various build files including PKGBUILDs to this repository. This is an unofficial and unsupported repository which is not directly accessible via pacman. To install a package from [unsupported] a user would have to download and extract the source package, run makepkg which downloads upstream sources and builds the package, and finally install the built package using pacman. One of the popular AUR Helpers may be used to help with these tasks.
Unofficial user repositories
A few users run public but unofficial custom repositories. See Unofficial User Repositories.


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When i try to login to Oracle Enterprise Manager, i got this message
The database status is currently unavailable. It is possible that the database is in mount or nomount state. Click 'Startup' to obtain the current status and open the database. If the database cannot be opened, click 'Perform Recovery' to perform an appropriate recovery operation.
Then the options are button to Startup and Perform Recovery. When i click Startup then i have to input the OS user name and password to login to target database machine and the credentials for the target database.
Then got this error, SQLException
ORA-28000: the account is locked
I have try to use emca, but after I input some parameter to run, finally i stuck again with this message,
SEVERE: Repository already exists. Fix the error(s) and run EM Configuration As
sistant again in standalone mode.
Could not complete the configuration. Refer to the log file for details
After read emca help, then i try to use emca -r to skip creation of repository schema then at last I got Oracle EM run without no error
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Map Love Old Nightstand Facelift
My customer found these night stands free on the curb. How I wish I'd taken "before" photos!!! They were a drab pecan finish with pieces of trim missing. I replaced much of the trim so it...
from Seaworthy To SEEworthy: Canoe Flowerbed
My neighbor gave me an old blue canoe. The keel was damaged and it wasn't fit for canoeing so I painted it yellow and converted it into a flowerbed. Cut the bottom open with a jigsaw...
"My times are in Thy hand" Time Card Rack Repurpose Psalm 31:15
I acquired an old timecard rack for clocking in (I actually remember "punching in" back in the day). It was begging for an opportunity to say something about time. My favorite book had...
shutters + industrial steel shelving = awesome
I love heavy industrial steel shelving. They are storage and decor essentials if you're like "us". I salvaged these beauties from a long-defunct chemical laboratory and gave them a happy...
Yet another repurposed organ.
This project is ready to go home. The organ's original owner was the new owner's great grandmother. She had neither the use nor room for the whole instrument but very much wanted a useful...
Ladder love. So easy!
Ladders are so much fun!
Calling all the ladies...do you see what I see?
It is stamped "Post Office Department 1962" but I see a shoe caddy. It separates from the fabulous steel table and shelf and it's my new favorite piece in my industrial-retro themed home.
Heavy Metal: Midcentury Galley Cabinet.
Not sure why I felt the need to completely refinish this old thing, maybe there just wasn't enough rust to make it beautiful! Lots of elbow grease, patience, sandpaper, Bondo, filler primer, and...
Music themed wall hanging from castoffs
Music is a big part of my life and my friends' lives. A dear, wonderful friend of mine is a singer and pianist, and I put this wall hanging together for her birthday. The two sharps the...
Some people call weeds & throwaway frames "junk".
My love for flowers and almost any live greenery, wild or otherwise, won't let me watch them wither and die. These are picked and pressed from my little garden and any roadside with room...
File cabinet planter!
I always seem to have old fence boards lying around. I took an old filing cabinet, turned it on its back, and attached these fence boards with barrel strap. It's one of my favorite...
Trash find: retro wrought iron shelf
I couldn't believe this big (7 feet tall!) retro, amazing wrought-iron shelf was in someone's trash! The guy throwing it out was happy to help me load it into my truck.
Chicken wire love :)
My fondness (and it runs very deep) for chicken wire leads me down the most interesting detours.
Medieval Wheelbarrow Made of Junk
I was asked to build a medieval wheelbarrow for a stage prop. When asked to create something, people like "us" (heehee) use what we already have whenever possible, and fortunately the...
Reclaimed shutter shelf
Perhaps everyone's tired of seeing yet another shutter/door project. Or, (like me) maybe not! I needed a shelf for this particular spot in my family room and had a nice little pile of...
Organ-to-writing desk/dressing table-conversion: another organ project???
A mahogany 1869 Estey Reed Organ
Lots of mileage out of one organ...
I'm currently obsessed with all the uses of a pump organ once it's no longer functioning. And I'm like the Native Americans; I use every part of the buffalo.
New "aged" cabinet
I needed a cabinet for a particular space and couldn't find anything for years. So I resorted to my former MO, before I discovered the joys of junking. I went ahead and built the...
Love notes
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life" ~ Berthold Auerbach. As long as it washes away the dust but leaves the rust, I've got the best of all worlds!
An ordination gift of old, old organ parts for a shiny, brand-new pastor.
A dear friend's husband was recently ordained as pastor of our church. I couldn't think of a more appropriate use for these extra organ parts I'd "harvested". I found out in advance...
Further "Organ Harvest": more music-based art :^)
Here's another music-based shelf from old organ parts. I just love them, the way I love music. Since the instruments I use no longer produce beautiful sound, I try to give them new lives...
"Form" and "Funk-shun"
Chicken wire + spray paint + vivid imagination = my crazy dress form.
File under "virtues" :)
These drawer fronts were part of a 1903 Sole Maker wood file cab. No kidding, that was the company name, so the Virtues seemed even more appropos!! The cabinet was falling apart, but these...
"Harvested Organ" shelf
This is the finished product, a small shelf about 24" wide. Repurposed Victorian era pump organ parts. With the exception of the mounting loops in back, all the hardware is original. Hyms...
Old fences become...
Someone I know from a nearby county's Habitat for Humanity asked me to build a picture frame for her watercolor, I believe it's to hang in a H for H office. The challenge was to make it from...
Ancient Chinese secret?
Pulled this out of a neighborhood trash heap yesterday. I have no idea what it is. Once "assembled" it wouldn't work well for a table. I can't identify its intended purposecan...
Doll bed from castoffs
I wanted to make a bed for this doll (not the human one) and the challenge was to do it on a zero money outlay basis. I came so close! If only I'd had these paint colors on hand!
Rusty metal cabinet reincarnation
This rusting old industrial steel cabinet in my neighbor's trash heap was irresistible! The drawers and main door were rusted through and fell apart, but I saved what I could. Its...
Another file cabinet re-do
I'm new to Junkmarket, and to the world of junking, which is why I didn't think to take "before" photos of my first few projects. This cabinet is at least forty years old, was badly damaged, and...
Recent comments
Re: Ladder Table
I think it is a cool re-use of castoff treasures!
Re: Entry table
This is the bomb, Studio76. What a great piece!
Re: My new upcycled ceiling light fixture
This is fantastic. I bet the lights are beautiful when they're on!
Re: Labor Day Bookcase
What an inspired use of unrelated materials! This took some vision!
Re: A Junk Piece with Multiple Uses!
Oh, super find, and great vision!
Re: $1.00 CHIMNEY CUPBOARD
I love your chimney cupboards. Your projects are really inspiring!
Re: Garage Shelving to Pantry
These are fabulous!
Re: guitarman 2
Beautiful and creative!
Re: Organ button necklace with frosty grey beads
I have lots of these from dismantled pump organs, and you have inspired me! What a beautiful, creative reuse.
Re: Sewing Drawer as Riser
Your talent and creativity are inspiring!
Re: 60's ViewMaster Lamp
oh this is really neat! I would love to know how to make lamps out of the crazy junk lying around my house!
Re: Vintage croquet vases
What a fantastic idea!!! Wow!
Re: From a bed to a Nutcracker...
This is so clever. Amazing you saw this nutcracker in all those different parts and brought it together!
Re: Watering Can Reusing Soda Tin
This is wonderful, and so simple that it's clever!
Re: Shelves
I really love this whole thing. I am a great shelf-ophile as well.
Re: Good Golly Miss Molly
She's amazing!
Re: Knock Knee Trunk Table
Really beautiful! I love old trunks!
Re: A Beautiful Combination of Created and Found Objects
I just acquired one of these old beauties and have plenty of treasures to adorn her!
Re: Scrappy Side Table
ohhh, this is so beautiful. Who would think that junk could be so much lovelier than brand-new...but this is!
Re: Ultimate Salvage Potting Table
This is a masterpiece in several categories. Amazing!
Re: Pallet Patina
The coolest pallet project I've seen yet. Beautiful finish.
Re: Another old window revived
This is so simple and lovely. I have some old windows and it's inspiring!
Re: I Come In Peace - Take Me To Your Leader!
ooooh so cool!
Re: Shadow box window
I love all your ideas and the way you put them together!
Re: Organ-to-writing desk/dressing table-conversion: another organ project???
Thank you ML, I'll have to jog up and visit you some time!
Re: Organ-to-writing desk/dressing table-conversion: another organ project???
Thanks Sue. I tried to credit Midge's "Where Do You Keep A Keyboard" project with the inspiration but couldn't find it in the menu. Anyway, that's where I got the idea.
Re: How to Use Candles that No Longer Burn
soooo pretty! I never see kale here in the Tampa area, but I'm going to start looking now.
Re: old dog tags fan pulls
What a wonderful idea! I would never have thought of this. I have literal dog tags, from my four-legged best friends in Heaven, that I will put to proud use now. Thank you for an awesome inspiration.
Re: 1st Pump Organ Project
Oh my, I just saw this! I have several projects similar to this one on my JMS page, but you did it first. I will add this page to the description for credit. This piece is beautiful.
Re: Old Birdcages
I love this idea and the quaint bird pics on the blocks!
Re: New "aged" cabinet
Sue, GS, Jim, thanks for making it okay to build something new sometimes. Thank you for the encouragement!
Re: Charlottes Web Spider Baby Display
This is brilliant!
Re: My Steampunk Hat
I want to wear it too. What a cool hat, and what a great arrangement of elements.
Re: An ordination gift of old, old organ parts for a shiny, brand-new pastor.
"Bible Lotto" is an old game a friend gave me a while back. It's just a bible trivia q & a game. More like bingo really. It seemed like a fitting prop when I staged this photo :)
Re: Metal Trim
ohhh, I want some great metal trim like that! What a find!
Re: Jewelry from an old Brownie Camera
The jewelry is truly beautiful!
Re: Money to Burn
I agree, the colors are amazing. The whole project is incredibly creative.
Re: Record players as art :)
Thank you all for your encouragement. It adds further enjoyment to what I already love doing :)
Re: "Form" and "Funk-shun"
Lezlee, I've never been to Round Top, it sounds like where I belong.
Re: "...the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." 2 Corinthians 5:17b
bendreschler, your project is fantastic. You scored a great set of shutters. Love the verse. Yes, He is risen.
Re: Pipe Wrench Bird
This is just so cool Are you soldering?
Re: Pipe Wrench Bird
This is just so cool Are you soldering?
Re: File under "virtues" :)
I couldn't agree more Tammy!
- Lisa
Re: File under "virtues" :)
Thank you, fellow Junkmasters. I am still only a Grasshopper and learning from all of you:)
Re: "Harvested Organ" shelf
Thank you Laurel!
Re: "Harvested Organ" shelf
Thank you Midge!
Re: Vase Birds
Your projects are amazing, 'forge. Is this solder holding the metal together, or do you arc weld them somehow? Remarkable!
Re: The Aviator
This is fascinating! I agree with VReV; this piece is rocking a steampunk vibe. Awesome.
Re: Old fences become...
Thank you Midge. Remember to keep the old rusty nails; they're a functional design element :)
Re: Old fences become...
Thank you Midge. Remember to keep the old rusty nails; they're a functional design element :)
Re: Ancient Chinese secret?
Thank you galynn! Do you have any great ideas for it now :) ?
Re: Ancient Chinese secret?
I like the new ideas, MIH and Marie. Hopefully they'll show up again soon with new identities.
Re: Spelling with Treasured Junk
How clever! I'm inspired to spell something with what I've got lying around!
Re: Ancient Chinese secret?
Thank you Marie. I considered that possibility, but in person it's completely impractical for use as a table, as the margins are tiny and the embellishments make it unsanitary as well. Maybe a snack table for nymphs or fairies? Any repurposing ideas? Keep em coming Marie!
Re: Doll bed from castoffs
Ah, Midge! Although new to JMS as a member, I've been an admirer of your projects on this site for quite a while. Thanks for letting me off the hook in terms of expense :)
Re: Another file cabinet re-do
Well, Marie, that was the idea. Thank you!
Re: Doll bed from castoffs
Jim, it's high praise coming from the expert. Many thanks!
Re: 4 Old Plates = 10,000 Lakes
What a great idea. I wish there were more old license plates lying around here in FL! Nice work.
Re: my grandma's old salt and pepper shakers
Oh, this is so simple and lovely! And a great way to share God's thoughts with people.
Re: Rusty metal cabinet reincarnation
Thank you Kathy! I'm in Florida. I'll be planting soon and sharing pix of the cabinet sporting something happy and alive.
Re: My Christmas Junque Tree!
Ding! This is a wonderful tree. I hope by next year my family will go along with such a delightful motif, or I may just have to get my own Christmas tree! This one's great.
Re: Doll bed from castoffs
Kathy, RD, ATG, those compliments, coming from the "pros", mean a lot. This is a great community.
Re: It's time to play dominoes!
Such a great idea in so many ways. Very simple, yet clever. I love this.
Re: Another file cabinet re-do
Sue, RustyDiva, my humblest thanks to you both. What fun!
Re: Rusty metal cabinet reincarnation
Thank you RustyDiva. I'm new to junking and, more specifically to JunkMarket, so your comment is very encouraging!
Re: Re-do of tiny bathroom
This is a great little bathroom. I love your ideas!


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Late on a Thursday afternoon on June 3, 1926, every available firefighting resource raced to Pollard's Department Store on Merrimack Street in Downtown Lowell. All of Lowell's fire department was joined by men and equipment sent from Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut and Lawrence in the fight to save Pollard's from a raging fire. Pollard's, also known…Read more Pollard's Department Store – Lowell Born . . . Lowell Owned . . . Lowell Managed
What if . . . the Titanic hadn't sunk 100 years ago?
Reading newspapers from the morning after the Titanic sank is almost like reading the first page of an alternate history novel. The first few words are familiar: The next are shocking: The Lowell Sun, the Boston Evening Transcript, and the Lewiston Evening Journal all reported similar headlines in their April 15, 1912 editions. Just imagine,…Read more What if . . . the Titanic hadn't sunk 100 years ago?
When Eastern Massachusetts was the Frontier, 1695
Maybe you've come through Billerica. On the northern approach, near the North Billerica commuter rail station, lies the site of the John Rogers homestead, marked by a sign erected by the Massachusetts Tercentenary Commission in 1930. The sign memorializes an event that happened even longer ago on today's Billerica Avenue. Early in Billerica's history, during the…Read more When Eastern Massachusetts was the Frontier, 1695
The Immigrant Experience in 1892: New York's Cholera Scare and its Effect on Boston
The emigrant ship Moravia crept into its dock in New York late on the night of August 30, 1892. The ship was sent straight to quarantine. On its ten-day voyage from Hamburg, Germany, 22 of its 358 passengers had been buried at sea, victims of Asiatic Cholera. Two more passengers convalesced in the ship's hospital,…Read more The Immigrant Experience in 1892: New York's Cholera Scare and its Effect on Boston
Fires of Lowell, Massachusetts – Sacred Heart School, 1967
On a cool, cloudy Saturday afternoon in early May 1967, two men simultaneously spotted the billowing smoke escaping from the first-story windows of Sacred Heart School's "new building" on its Moore Street campus in Lowell, Massachusetts. John J. McWilliams, an off-duty police officer, ran and activated the fire alarm at a nearby fire-box. John Sickles,…Read more Fires of Lowell, Massachusetts – Sacred Heart School, 1967
1918: Spanish Flu, Attitudes toward Housekeeping, and a Little Bit about Linguistic History
One of the more interesting aspects of writing a blog is seeing which topics attract the most interest. In mid-December, I wrote a post about the Spanish flu (link below) and its spread across Massachusetts in 1918 and 1919. Since then, it's been one of my most popular posts (placing fourth most popular of the…Read more 1918: Spanish Flu, Attitudes toward Housekeeping, and a Little Bit about Linguistic History
The Great White Hurricane – New England's Blizzard of 1888
During New England's Blizzard of 1888, also known as the Great White Hurricane, over four feet of snow fell in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The storm dumped as much as 40 inches of snow in New York and New Jersey. In a world before road salt and snowblowers, the Great White Hurricane suspended communication and travel…Read more The Great White Hurricane – New England's Blizzard of 1888


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Yesterday I wrapped up my last summer sewing camp.
We had a blast making all sorts of great things for our dolls and what a sweet group of girls I had to teach!
Here's a recap of our week.
Day One: A Sleepover
We made sleeping bags (tutorial here) for our dolls, repurposed onesies as nightgowns, crafted donuts etc out of clay (because every sleepover ends with donuts right?) and even some little pillows for our dolls.
How to repurpose a onesie for your doll:
First up, get your hands on a newborn or size 3 month onesie (newborn works best).
Starting at the ribbing part where the legs go through, cut straight across to the other side. (some of the girls thought these made great panties for your dolls if you leave the snaps snapped!)
Next, put the onesie on your doll and see where you need to cut the sleeves. Make your sleeves short or long depending on how short you cut them.
Then take off your onesie, add some felt flowers, stars, buttons, hearts or anything else you want to add a little bling to your nightgown.
Put it on your doll and kiss her goodnight.
Day Two: School Days
Today we made pillowcase dresses (tutorial here), mini clipboards, desks with stools and mini totebags.
How to Make a Desk for your Doll
Grab a couple of wooden letters from your local craft store. While you are there, also get a piece of wood that measures roughly 5×12 and a box for your stool. Use a little hot glue (or wood glue) and glue the top to the letters. Decorate your wood top with paint, washi tape, sharpies and stickers. Do the same with your little box and voila! A desk for your doll!
Day Three: Career Day
We made aprons (tutorial here), oven mitts, hospital gowns (tutorial here), felt stethocopes and "frosted" cookies.
How to Make Frosted Cookies
You will need some small wooden hearts, circles and/or stars (you can find these in the unfinished wood aisle of most craft stores), some white puffy paint and some seed beads. Take your puffy paint and paint some "icing" on the top of your wooden cookies. Sprinkle the beads on top of your wet paint for sprinkles and let dry for at least 24 hours.
Day Four: The Great Outdoors
We made hammocks (with these rockin' stands made by my husband – coming to etsy soon!), s'mores, beach blankets, a sand pail and a beach bag made from recycled capri suns.
How to sew a s'more
Cut out 2 small squares from tan felt for the graham crackers. Cut out 2 smaller square from dark brown felt for the chocolate. Get a little puff of fiberfill stuffing for the marshmallow. Now you need some brown embroidery thread and a chenille 22 needle (these are the best bet for little hands) Stack your s'more like this: tan square + dark brown square + fiberfill stuffing + tan square. Then take your needle and make some little running stitches through all the layers of your s'more (these are called "seed stitches") and enjoy!
Day Five: Brrrr!
We made toboggans (great tutorial here), mittens, scarves and mini Olaf's
And that was a wrap! What a great week we had!
p.s. (Check out my pinterest page for lots of other great AG doll craft ideas!)