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Here at the Ministry of Innovation we've been bringing you loads of stories about all of the interesting and (hopefully useful!) changes that are coming out of Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Out of all of those stories, we've selected six that we feel not only had the most impact, but whose effects will continue to be felt into 2013 and beyond.
#6: Car-sharing services launch, fight the law
Back in June I heard about two San Francisco startups—Lyft and SideCar—that had similar business models. By the next month, I became a driver for both companies. Both companies allow individuals armed with smartphones to moonlight as not-quite-taxi drivers. Then, potential passengers can pop open their own app and request a pickup from whatever point in San Francisco they like. Payment is all handled within the app via credit card. It's sort of like Uber, except for those of us that don't need to travel by black car. However, state regulators (to say nothing of the incumbent taxi industry) haven't taken too kindly to these companies.
We reported about how the California Public Utilities Commission (which deals with taxi regulation) hit the companies with a cease-and-desist in October. The following month, they were slapped with $20,000 in fines which naturally were appealed. But earlier this month, the CPUC seemed to have softened its tone and appeared willing to at least consider legitimizing these companies by changing the rules.
#5: Bitcoin goes mainstream
If 2011 was the year that Bitcoin first appeared on many people's radars (including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)), then 2012 was the year that the cryptocurrency began to, slowly, but surely, move into the mainstream. Ok, your non-techy friends aren't going to be ditching their greenbacks anytime soon—but there were some signs that the digital cash may be strengthening and headed towards more ease-of-use.
First, the currency's exchange rate is on the rise. In April 2012, a Bitcoin was worth just $4.50. By July it had nearly doubled. Today, one Bitcoin is worth about $13.50. That's a massive increase by any measure. Second, in August, a company announced that it would be creating Bitcoin-based debit cards for all to use. Then, the Bitcoin Foundation threw open its doors hoping to spread the currency's gospel far and wide. WordPress started accepting Bitcoins, too.
Finally, perhaps the most exciting development is that Bitcoin Central, which operates in France, has been authorized by local authorities to operate as a bank under French law. As we reported in December, "The accounts will also be integrated with the French banking system, so users can have their paychecks automatically deposited into their accounts and converted to bitcoins."
Still, Bitcoin isn't perfect and definitely has some hurdles to overcome. In March, the lack of "chargebacks" prompted a lawsuit between two Bitcoin-related companies. In September, a Bitcoin company sustained a theft worth $250,000. And worse still, an August 2012 academic study on Bitcoin found that it had helped fuel $2 million per month in illegal drug sales online. So don't liquidate your Uncle Sam-backed bucks just yet.
#4: Google (and other tech companies) get slapped for legal financial shenanigans
As we reported back in November, the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich" are sadly not items at your favorite lunch spot. Instead, you'll find them on the menu of legal financial shenanigans available to multinational corporations. And for around a decade, major international corporations have taken advantage of these complicated shell company rules and tax loopholes that allow them to minimize their tax burden in the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.
While this technique has been going on for years, only this year did it reach discussion in the highest levels of government. Back in October, French authorities forced Google to pay $1.3 billion in back taxes. All of this came to a head when, in November, a British parliamentary committee chided Google, Amazon (and even Starbucks) with this quip: "We're not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral."
Bloomberg News, which has done extensively investigative journalism on this issue, found in December that new filings show that Google's income-shifting has reached record levels, hitting nearly $10 billion that went to its Bermuda-based shell company.
#3: Financial schadenfreude
While I've been senior business editor at Ars for less than a year, there's one story that seems to consistently resonate with readers: it's what I've come to call financial schadenfreude.
There's been loads of examples of this over the past year. Back in August, following the expiration of Facebook's lockup agreements (which prevent insider trading and restrict sales of the stock during a certain period), many investors dropped the stock like a rock, which sent the share price plummeting.
Later in August, there were also signs of trouble at Zynga—which lost 70 percent of its value since the company's December 2011 initial public offering. A number of the company's top executives and managers were hired away to other companies, surely not a good sign. By October, Zynga announced it was taking a write-down for OMGPOP (makers of Draw Something), meaning that the company drastically overpaid.
By September, chipmaker AMD's CFO mysteriously left the company, which sent that company's stock price tumbling as well. The following month, a Wall Street analyst called AMD "un-investable". We wonder, as probably do many of you, how long AMD will be able to stay afloat.
Then in November, we brought you two stories of how Japan's once-great electronics sector was struggling. Sharp said that after losing over $3 billion in its latest quarter and still holding $10 billion in debt, there was "material doubt" over its survival and the company has asked the Japanese government for a bailout. Meanwhile, Sony's credit rating was downgraded to just-above junk, and it posted a loss of nearly $200 million in its most recent quarterly earnings.
And finally, Groupon. The daily deals site that was once the darling of everyone's inbox posted a quarterly loss of $3 million in November—the stock has lost 90 percent of its value since its IPO in 2011. Perhaps it should put its own stock, as The Oatmeal suggested, up for sale as a deal?
#2: Facebook's long-awaited IPO
The big news that Facebook would be opening up its financial doors and making company shares available through an initial public offering drew attention for the better part of 2011. Finally, by February 2012, it happened. The S-1 filing valued the company at $5 billion, a value that ballooned to $13 billion by May, when the company finally hit the NASDAQ exchange.
In the company's first quarterly report post-IPO, in July, the stock price took a hit following news that Zynga slashed its forecast for bookings—revenue less fees it pays Facebook. The other big question that looms large for Facebook is can it make money off of its increasing number of mobile users?
As we reported at the time, Facebook began its first ad campaign on mobile devices, with "Sponsored Stories" hitting handsets across the world. The company says that at the end of March 2012, there were 901 million monthly active users, with over half of those being mobile users, and 80 percent of those outside the United States and Canada.
More recently, Morgan Stanley got smacked with a $5 million fine over questionable behavior in the run-up to the IPO.
#1: Google Fiber finally arrives in all of its gigabit glory
After we first wrote about Google Fiber back in 2010, the search giant announced service's details and formally turned it on in 2012.
In July 2012, Google blew everyone away with pricing: Fiber is now the cheapest and fastest Internet connection anywhere in the country at $70 a month for 1Gbps. By contrast, Comcast's new 305Mbps costs more than four times that price. If Google does indeed expand to other regions of the country, it will certainly be massively disruptive.
For now, the service is limited to Kansas City, Kansas and is slated to expand across the stateline sometime next year. But we also found out that you, Ars readers, love reading about that sweet, juicy bandwidth. And so we delivered. We told you about efforts to lure startups to Kansas City, and when Google's service was finally turned on we told you about how real-world speeds came in around 700Mbps.
Ars sent me on a whirlwind tour of KCK, where I spent two nights at the Hacker Home, effectively ground zero of the "Kansas City Startup Village." The result? I discovered that the rest of the Internet is still largely too slow to really appreciate those high speeds.
More recently, though, Netflix agreed that Google Fiber is "now the most consistently fast ISP in America." Don't despair, though—Google's certainly not done with KCK or KCMO. The company says it wants to expand the service to other parts of the country. But where? Your guess is as good as ours.
Did we miss an important business item? What should we look ahead to in 2013? You know where the comments section is.


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Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1
Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1
Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
Edited by Hugo Münsterberg.
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the other, or from some more distant object to one's own eyes, the eyes may be seen now in one position and now in another, but never in motion." This phenomenon was described by Graefe,[6] who believed it was to be explained in the same way as the illusion which one experiences in a railway coach when another train is moving parallel with the coach in which one sits, in the same direction and at the same speed. The second train, of course, appears motionless.
[5] Dodge, Raymond, PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, 1900, VII., p. 456.
[6] Graefe, A., Archiv f. Ophthalmologie, 1895, XLI., 3, S. 136.
This explanation of Graefe is not to be admitted, however, since in the case of eye-movement there are muscular sensations of one's own activity, which are not present when one merely sits in a coach. These sensations of eye-movement are in all cases so intimately connected with our perception of the movement of objects, that they may not be in this case simply neglected. The case of the eye trying

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Bulk data processing is the processing of a batch of discrete records between participating applications. Oracle AIA uses Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite to perform bulk data integrations. This chapter provides an overview of design patterns for AIA ODI architecture and describes how to handle high volume transactions with Xref table, build ODI projects, use XREF knowledge module, work with ODI, work with Domain Value Maps, use Error Handling, use ODI Ref functions and how to publish the Package and Data Model as Web Service.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 25.1, "Introduction to Design Patterns for AIA-Oracle Data Integrator Architecture"
Section 25.9, "How to Publish the Package and Data Model as Web Service"
For information about using Oracle Data Integrator, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator.
Since Oracle Data Integrator data transfer is always point-to-point, the source and target systems must be capable of processing batch loads of data. An integration project should not adopt Oracle Data Integrator as a solution if there is a limitation in the number of rows that can be processed either on the source side or on the target-side application.
This section describes AIA-approved design patterns for using Oracle Data Integrator with AIA architecture. Design patterns approved by AIA are:
In this design pattern, shown in Figure 25-1, the initial set of data of a particular object is loaded from the source database to the target database; for example, loading Customer Account information or loading Invoice information into a new application database from an existing source application database. In the process, Xref data may or may not get established depending on the integration requirement.
The Oracle Data Integrator package that is developed for a specific integration cannot be reused for loading data into another participating application.
To perform the Oracle Data Integrator Data load:
The following sample steps describe how you perform the initial data load from ERP Application 1 to ERP Application 2 as shown in Figure 25-1.
The source application ERP APP1 populates the interface table using its native technology.
Some applications can choose other strategies such as views or base tables as opposed to interface tables.
A job scheduler invokes the source side Oracle Data Integrator package.
Oracle Data Integrator extracts the data from Source Interface table and populates the Target Interface table.
After populating the Target interface table, you can choose to have Oracle Data Integrator populate the Xref table with App 1 ID and generate common ID.
This step is optional.
Oracle Data Integrator either deletes or updates the rows that were processed from the Source interface table to indicate that the rows are processed.
In the target application ERP APP2, the native application extracts data from the target interface table and populates the target database, thereby generating ERP Application 2 ID.
A job scheduler on the target application invokes the Oracle Data Integrator package to populate the Application 2 ID onto the Xref table matching on the Common ID.
For more information about Oracle Data Integrator, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite.
Whenever a need exists for a high-volume data transfer, AIA recommends using the Oracle Data Integrator solution for data transfer between applications. Using this approach, the Oracle Data Integrator package transfers data from source to target system on a regular basis.
For details about how to load data, see Section 25.1.2, "How to Perform the Oracle Data Integrator Data Load."
AIA recommends that the interface tables on the source side have a mechanism to indicate processed rows.
If you have a requirement that batch loading co-exists with regular online transactions, AIA recommends the approach illustrated in Figure 25-2.
In this scenario, two different flows send data from the source to the target application, one using the AIA Oracle Data Integrator approach, and the other using the standard AIA approach. The responsibility for ensuring data integrity lies with the participating applications. AIA recommends that only new records should be loaded using the AIA Oracle Data Integrator architecture approach.
For details about how to send data from source to target using AIA-Oracle Data Integrator architecture, see Section 25.1.2, "How to Perform the Oracle Data Integrator Data Load."
Create operations should be performed using the AIA Oracle Data Integrator approach while all other operations should be performed using AIA.
In this design pattern, do not use the AIA Oracle Data Integrator approach as an alternate route to send data when Oracle Fusion Middleware is unavailable. Instead, messages should be queued using an appropriate message queuing technology such as JMSQ, and handled using the guaranteed message technology recommended by AIA.
For more information about guaranteed messages, see Section 17.7, "Guaranteed Message Delivery."
For situations in which storing Xref data for high-volume transactions does not make sense, AIA recommends using point-to-point integration using Oracle Data Integrator, as shown in Figure 25-3.
For example, the headquarters of a retail store chain receives data from individual retail stores every day at the close of business. In this scenario, you need not store Xref data between each individual local store with HQ because there are not any DML operations on those data sets.
For details about how to load data, see Section 25.1.2, "How to Perform the Oracle Data Integrator Data Load."
There is no AIA component in this architecture. Local ERP applications load their interface table and invoke an Oracle Data Integrator package to send data to the HQ Interface table. After the data is processed, Oracle Data Integrator updates the local ERP application's Interface table with a Transferred or Processed status for each row.
The Bulk Data processing strategy for AIA using Oracle Data Integrator is about building point-to-point solutions, taking into account the need to set up data in the Xref, using DVM, and ensuring that the processed data can participate in AIA services at runtime.
To build Oracle Data Integrator projects:
Define data servers.
The source and target data server that is defined is a logical entity referring to the physical database schema chosen for bulk data processing.
Link each data server you define to the physical data base schemas.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite.
Reverse engineer data servers.
Reverse engineer the data server to generate the various models along with the data stores.
Define interfaces.
Create interfaces for each of the data stores, as required.
In the process of creating interfaces, you specify the mapping between the source and target fields.
Define packages.
The packages are the steps in which the interfaces created are run along with some intermediate steps involving the Xref and also usage of DVM. If the package chooses to implement Xref, it must use a special integration knowledge module (IKM).
The package also has steps to clean up the source tables if you choose to do so.
In Oracle Data Integrator, the creation of XREF data is a two-step process. Each step is an interface. The overall process is illustrated in Figure 25-4.
In the first interface, the user's source table is the source in Oracle Data Integrator and the user's target table is the target in Oracle Data Integrator.
While transporting data from source to target table, create XREF data for the source and common rows. In this process, if you want to populate any column of the target with the COMMON identifier, the Oracle Data Integrator knowledge module takes care of that too.
If the target interface table does not contain the placeholder for common data, you may have to either populate the source identifier or ask the application to identify a placeholder for the common value for each source row.
In the final step, after data is posted from the interface table to the base table, the target application must identify a data store where the mapping between target identifier and common (or source) identifier that you have sent during previous interface processing is available.
A second interface must be run in which this data store is the source in Oracle Data Integrator and the XREF table is the target. This creates the appropriate target columns in the XREF table.
Cross-referencing is an Oracle Fusion Middleware function, available through the Mediator component, and leveraged typically by any loosely coupled integration that is built on the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles. It is used to manage the run-time correlation between the various participating applications of the integration.
While loading data from source tables to a target table, you must establish the cross-reference data in the SOA database just as it is done in the trickle feed architecture. While standard APIs are available in the SOA suite to populate the cross-reference tables, those APIs cannot be used in Oracle Data Integrator because that may lead to row-by-row processing as opposed to set-based processing.
The following sections describe how to load source table data to the target table and, at the same time, populate the cross-reference.
For more information about cross-referencing, see Section 26.4, "Working with DVMs and Cross-References."
Before working with Oracle Data Integrator, complete these prerequisites:
Define the master and work repository.
Define all topology parameters.
Physical architecture (for source, target, and XREF_DATA)
Logical architecture
Define your data models.
Create a project.
Import the following Knowledge Modules into your project.
KM_LKM SQL to SQL (Mediator XREF) or KM_LKM SQL to Oracle (Mediator XREF)
CKM Oracle (delivered)
KM_IKM SQL Control Append (Mediator XREF)
For complete details on how to set up ODI, seeOracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator.
Because XREF column names cannot be hardcoded, two variables must be defined to hold the source and target column names. Normally, these column names are derived from the AIAConfiguration file. This section does not describe how to get that from the XML but rather it describes how to refresh this from a SQL select statement.
For complete details on variables, see "Working with Variables" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Data Integrator.
To define the source and target column names:
Create a variable
This variable is used to determine the column name of the
XREF_DATA table. The Refreshing tab, as shown in Figure 25-5, has the appropriate SQL to get the value from the source, depending on the implementation.
Create a variable
This variable is used to determine the column name of the
XREF_DATA table. The Refreshing tab has the appropriate SQL to get the value from the source depending on the implementation.
To create the first interface:
Create an interface.
The source table in your data model should be dropped in Sources (in this example, IM_FINANCIALS_STAGE)
The target table (in this example, PS_VCHR_HDR_STG) appears in the target data store.
Provide mapping for each field, as shown in Figure 25-6.
Go to the Flow tab.
LKM as the customized KM_LKM SQL to SQL (ESB XREF).
This has an option called
SOURCE_PK_EXPRESSION. Pass the expression that represents the source key value in the XREF table in this option. If the source table has just one column defined as key, simply mention that column name (in this example
SEQ_NO) for this option. If the source key has multiple columns, use the expression to derive the key value.
For example, if two key columns are in the table and you want to store the concatenated value of those columns as your source value in XREF table, put this expression,
DOC_DATE, in the options value. This option is mandatory.
If you are using update/delete along with XREF, then update the other options in the LKM. If you are not using update/delete, set the option
SRC_UPDATE_DELETE_ACTION as None.
In the IKM, choose the customized knowledge module IKM SQL to SQL (ESB Xref).
In this module, you must define the options listed in Table 25-1:
Table 25-1 Required Options in Customized Knowledge Module IKM SQL to SQL
Name of your XREF table.
Name of the source column in the XREF table. Enter the variable name that you defined earlier (#GetSourceColumnName) in this option.
Select whether you want to use GUID or a sequence for the common identifier. For GUID, use SYS_GUID. For sequence, use the sequence name for this value.
The value that goes into the ROWNUMBER column of the XREF_DATA table. Use the default value of GUID unless you require a sequence.
Choose CKM Oracle on the Controls tab when you select Knowledge Module.
If you need not send the common value to the target table, ignore this step.
If the target table does not have any placeholder for the common identifier and you are planning to supply the source identifier in one of the target table columns, you must use the standard mapping rules of Oracle Data Integrator to indicate what source identifier to populate in which column. This integration knowledge module does not do any work for you in that case.
If the target column that you want to hold the common identifier is a unique key of the target table, then put a dummy mapping on that column. This is due to an Oracle Data Integrator limitation; otherwise, the key is not shown next time you open the interface. At runtime, this dummy mapping is overwritten with the generated common identifier by the integration knowledge module. Mark the UD1 column to indicate which target column the column value goes in.
Validate and save the interface.
To create a package for the first interface:
Create a package to run the interfaces, as shown in Figure 25-7.
This should contain at least two steps.
Refresh the variable that holds the source column name.
Run the interface.
Every implementation adds its own error-handling steps in the package.
Validate and save the package.
Run the package.
Most likely, this package runs as soon as the data arrives in the source table. You can achieve this by using the Oracle Data Integrator changed data capture.
How to run a package when the data arrives in a source table is described in the following sections.
To define the XREF view in SOA:
Create an XREF View in the XREF Database as shown in Example 25-1.
Example 25-1 Creation of an XREF View in the XREF Database
CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "ORAESB"."INVOICE_XREF_VW" ("ROW_NUMBER", "XREF_TABLE_NAME", "RETL_01", "COMMON", "PSFT_01") AS select row_number, XREF_TABLE_NAME, max(decode(XREF_COLUMN_NAME, 'RETL_01', VALUE,null)) RETL_01, max(decode(XREF_COLUMN_NAME, 'COMMON', VALUE,null)) COMMON, max(decode(XREF_COLUMN_NAME, 'PSFT_01', VALUE,null)) PSFT_01 from XREF_DATA GROUP BY row_number, XREF_TABLE_NAME;
Construct this view for each implementation.
After the data is moved to target base tables and the target identifier is created, the data must get back to the XREF database corresponding to the source identifier to complete the loop. In the previous step, the common (or source) identifier was passed to the target system. Now the target system must provide a map between that common (or source) identifier and the target base identifier. This may come in the same interface table or it may come in a separate table. This mapping data store is used in this interface in the source. This interface is packaged and finally a separate process from target system runs that package.
To create the second interface:
Create an interface for data transport.
In the sources section, drop the XREF_VW view and the mapping data store (in this example, the same interface table in PeopleSoft PS_VCHR_HDR_STG). In the target data section, select the XREF_DATA table.
Apply a filter for XREF_VW with a WHERE clause to filter data from your table name only, as shown in Figure 25-8. For example,
XREF_VW.XREF_TABLE_NAME='INVOICE',if you are using this for INVOICE.
Join the mapping data store and XREF_VW with the columns that store the common (or source) identifier, as shown in Figure 25-9.
In this example, the column of the PeopleSoft interface table that stores common data is
The XREF_TABLE_NAME map should be the XREF_TABLE name of the implementation.
XREF_COLUMN_NAME map should be
#GetTargetColumnName (pointing to the variable that was created earlier).
Map ROW_NUMBER to the ROW_NUMBER of the XREF_VW.
The map for the VALUE field is the column that stores the target identifier in the mapping data store (in this example, the INVOICE_ID column of the PS_VCHR_HDR_STG).
The map for IS_DELETED is set to
The map for LAST_MODIFIED and LAST_ACCESSED is different for each implementation.
Mark XREF_TABLE_NAME, XREF_COLUMN_NAME and VALUE as
Key, as shown in Figure 25-10.
On the Flow tab, use the load knowledge module,
LKM SQL to Oracle.
Use the integration knowledge module,
IKM Oracle incremental update.
On the
Controls tab, use the check knowledge module,
CKM Oracle.
Validate and save the interface.
To create a package for the second interface:
Create a package to run the interface, as shown in Figure 25-11.
This should contain at least two steps:
Refresh the variable that holds the target column name.
Run the first interface.
Every implementation adds its own error-handling steps in the package.
Validate and save the package.
Run the package.
Most likely, this package runs as soon as the data arrives in the target mapping data store. This can be achieved by using the Oracle Data Integrator changed data capture.
The Domain Value Maps (DVM) are available as XML files and can be used as delivered.
Reverse-engineer the DVM and it results in multiple relational tables.
Here is how the DVM XML is converted after reverse-engineering. We have used the XML itself in the JDBC description for the data server and not any schema for reverse engineering, as shown in Figure 25-12.
The DVM XML turns into six tables after the reverse-engineering, as shown in Figure 25-13.
Join those multiple tables to derive the corresponding mapping in the interface.
Join IM_FINANCIALS_STAGE with the CELL table, as shown in Figure 25-14.
Use the column in your main source table for DVM in the join.
Join the CELL table with COLUMN table, as shown in Figure 25-15.
Add a filter for the COLUMN table (to determine the source column name), as shown in Figure 25-16. This filter can use a variable that holds the source column name.
Drop the CELL table and COLUMN table once more in the interface. They can be renamed, but for now settle with CELL1 and COLUMN1. These duplicate sets fetch the target values.
Join CELL1 with COLUMN1 table, as shown in Figure 25-17.
Add a filter on the COLUMN1 table (to determine the target column name), as shown in Figure 25-18.
This filter can use a variable that holds the source column name.
Finally, self-join the CELL table with another CELL (CELL1) table, as shown in Figure 25-19.
Use this second CELL data (CELL1 table's data) in the target interface mapping, as shown in Figure 25-20.
You must repeat all joins for each DVM-centric column.
To use error handling for the Oracle Data Integrator flows:
The package shown in Figure 25-21 is a sample interface that invokes the AIAAsyncErrorHandlingBPELProcess when it ends in error.
The XML Request Input for this process is provided in Example 25-2.
Example 25-2 XML Request Input for AIAAsyncErrorHandlingBPELProcess
<initiateRequest> <Fault> <EBMReference> <EBMID/> <EBMName/> <EBOName/> <VerbCode/> <BusinessScopeReference> <ID/> <InstanceID>[End to End Process Name, Hard code, every developer must know this process name]</InstanceID> <EnterpriseServiceName/> <EnterpriseServiceOperationName/> </BusinessScopeReference> <SenderReference> <ID>[Sender Reference ID - Hard code the system id of the source system]</ID> <SenderMessageID/> <TransactionCode/> <ObjectCrossReference> <SenderObjectIdentification> <BusinessComponentID/> <ID/> <ContextID/> <ApplicationObjectKey> <ID/> <ContextID/> </ApplicationObjectKey> <AlternateObjectKey> <ID/> <ContextID/> </AlternateObjectKey> </SenderObjectIdentification> <EBOID/> </ObjectCrossReference> <Application> <ID/> <Version/> </Application> </SenderReference> </EBMReference> <FaultNotification> <ReportingDateTime><%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("BEGIN")%></ReportingDateTime> <CorrectiveAction>[ODI does not have it, leave this element null]</ CorrectiveAction > <FaultMessage> <Code>[ODI Error return code to be passed here. Must find the ODI system variable to get the return code]</Code> <Text><%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("CONTEXT_NAME" )%>/<%=odiRef.getSession( "SESS_ NAME" )%>/<%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("STEP_ NAME")%>:<![CDATA[<%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("MESSAGE")%>]]></Text> <Severity>[ODI does not have it, hard code it to 1]</Severity> <Stack/> </FaultMessage> <FaultingService> <ID>[Hard code a meaningful name of the Process, For example, CustomerInitialLoad (this could be same as package name)] </ID> <ImplementationCode>ODI</ImplementationCode> <InstanceID><%=odiRef.getPrevStepLog("SESS_NO")%></InstanceID> </FaultingService> </FaultNotification> </Fault> </initiateRequest>
Table 25-2 lists the Oracle Data Integrator Ref functions with a description of each.
Table 25-2 Oracle Data Integrator Ref Functions
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The date and time when the step that ended in error began
The error message returned by the previous step, if any. It is a blank string if no error occurred.
The number of the session
The name of the context in which the step was performed.
The name of the session.
The name of the step.
To publish the package and data model as a Web service:
Install Axis2 as a standalone server.
Set an environment variable JAVA_HOME to the path name of the directory in which you installed the JDK release.
Download Apache Axis2 Version 1.2 (
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/download.cgi) and unpack the Axis2 Standard Binary Distribution into a convenient location so that the distribution resides in its own directory. Set an environment variable AXIS2_HOME to the path name of the extracted directory of Axis2 (for example, /opt/axis2-1.2).
Start the Standalone Axis2 server by running the following command:
$AXIS2_HOME\bin\axis2server.bat (Windows)
After startup, the default web services that are included with Axis2 are available by visiting http://localhost:8080/axis2/services/
Download the
axis2.war from
axis2.war on the OC4J Application Server.
Deploy the
axis2.war on the OC4J Application Server (
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ias/downloads/utilsoft-090603.html) or OC4J Server of the SOA Suite can also be used. Go to
http://<Host:port> and launch the application server that takes you to OC4J home. Click the Application tab and then click the Deploy tab. It asks you the location of the file. Browse and point to the
Axis2.war file and then deploy.
After the WAR is successfully deployed, test it by pointing the web browser to
http://<host:port>/axis2. This opens the Axis2 Web Application Home Page.
Click Validate to ensure that the procedure ended successfully.
Install the Oracle Data Integrator Public Web Services on Axis2.
In Axis2, go to the Administration page.
Select the Upload Service link.
Browse for the Oracle Data Integrator Web Services .aar file.
It is located in the
/tools/web_services/ subdirectory in the Oracle Data Integrator installation directory.
Click the Upload button.
Axis2 uploads the Oracle Data Integrator Web Services. You can now see Data Integrator Public Web Services in the Axis2 services list.
The services and the operations of successfully installed services appear on the available services page (
http://<Host>:<HTTP port>/axis2/services/listServices), where you can see OdiInvoke
Environment setup for Data Services
The database drivers (
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/jdbc9201-092698.html) must be installed in the appropriate directory. ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/applib for OC4J.
Create the JDBC Datasource pointing to the data server:
Connect to OC4J administration interface.
On the Administration tab, in Services | JDBC Resources, click Go to task.
Click the Create button in the Connection Pools section.
Select the Axis2 application, select New Connection Pool, then Continue.
Fill in the fields for the JDBC data source and click Finish.
Click the Create button in the Data Sources section.
Select the Axis2 application, select Managed Datasource, then Continue.
META-INF/context.xml and WEB-INF/web.xml is updated in the iAxis directories.
Update application.xml in the given folder ORACLE_HOME\j2ee\home\applications\axis2\META-INF as shown in Example 25-3.
Example 25-3 Update application.xml in ORACLE_HOME\j2ee\home\applications\axis2\META-INF
<Context > <Resource name="jdbc/TestDS" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@abijayku-idc:1522:orcl1" username="master" password="master" maxIdle="2" maxWait="-1" maxActive="4"/> </Context> (Resource name will be reused in the web.xml file and in the Model in Designer.) (driverClassName, url, username and password will explicitly point to the data source.) Update the web.xml file with the resource name of the context.xml file (here res-ref-name) in the given folder ORACLE_ HOME\j2ee\home\applications\axis2\axis2\WEB-INF as follows: <resource-ref> <description>Data Integrator Data Services on Oracle_SRV1</description> <res-ref-name>jdbc/TestDS</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref>
Set an environment variable ODI_JAVA_HOME to the path name of the directory into which you installed the JDK release.
Configure the topology, as shown in Figure 25-22.
In Topology Manager's Physical Architecture view, select the Axis2 technology. Right-click and select Insert Dataserver. If you are using a different Web Services container, then choose the appropriate technology instead.
Complete the following fields on the Definition tab:
Name: Name of the dataserver as it appears in Oracle Data Integrator.
Base URL for published services:
http://<Host>:<HTTP port>/axis2/services.
Select the option corresponding to the chosen method of deployment.
Web Service Upload: Specify the root URL for the Axis2 application, typically
http://<Host>:<HTTP port>/axis2/axis2-admin/, and the user name (
admin) and password (
axis2) of the Axis2 administrator.
Click OK. A window opens to enable you to create a physical schema.
Go to the Context tab, and define one logical schema for each context in which to deploy the Data Services.
Click OK.
Set up the Data Model to access the data of the table using a web service.
Open the model and go to the Services tab as shown in Figure 25-23.
From the Application Server list, select the Web Services container that you set up earlier.
Enter the Namespace to be used in the generated WSDL.
Specify the Package name used to name the generated Java package that contains your Web Service. Generally, this is of the form
com.<company name>.<project name>.
In the Name of the data source field, copy and paste the name of the data source that you defined for the server when setting up the data sources. (Provide the JNDI location of the data source.)
Define the Data Service Name.
Select a service knowledge module (SKM Oracle) from the list, and set its options.
Go to the Deployed Datastores tab.
Select every data store needed to expose as a Web Service. For each one, specify a Data Service Name and the name of the Published Entity.
Click OK to save your changes.
Click the Generate and Deploy tab to deploy it on the OC4J server.
The deployed data store can be viewed at
http://<Host>:<HTTP port>/axis2/services/listServices along with all the available operations.
The generated data service can be tested using OdiInvokeWebService tool provided in the package.
Run a scenario using a Web Service.
OdiInvoke web service is used to run a scenario using a web service. The WSDL is
http://<Host>:<HTTP port>/axis2/services/OdiInvoke?wsdl. The port to use is called
This web service commands an agent to connect a given work repository and to start a specific scenario. Parameters are similar to the ones used when running a scenario from an OS command. Example 25-4 is a sample SOAP request for this web service.
Example 25-4 Sample SOAP Request for the OdiInvoke Web Service
<invokeScenarioRequest> <invokeScenarioRequest> <RepositoryConnection> <JdbcDriver>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</JdbcDriver> <JdbcUrl>jdbc:oracle:thin:@sbijayku-idc:1522:orcl1</JdbcUrl> <JdbcUser>MASTER_FINPROJ</JdbcUser> <JdbcPassword>master</JdbcPassword> <OdiUser>SUPERVISOR</OdiUser> <OdiPassword>SUNOPSIS</OdiPassword> <WorkRepository>WORK</WorkRepository> </RepositoryConnection> <Command> <ScenName>ABC</ScenName> <ScenVersion>001</ScenVersion> <Context>RETL_TO_PSFT</Context> <LogLevel>5</LogLevel> <SyncMode>1</SyncMode> </Command> <Agent> <Host>sbijayku-idc</Host> <Port>20910</Port> </Agent> </invokeScenarioRequest> </invokeScenarioRequest>
The scenario execution returns a SOAP response as shown in Example 25-5.


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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!
In keeping with the spirit of the holiday, I thought I'd give a little thanks to some things that make me and my life happy. You know, to be spirited and stuff. Also, I'm terrible at expressing my thankful feelings toward people and things, so this is my non-mushy way of saying I'm grateful. Capiche?
I'm thankful I'm alive (uh, it's obvious but is a helluva lot better than the alternative). I'm thankful I have a beautiful house to stay in, even if the floors are constantly covered in dog hair. I'm thankful I have food to eat every day–and good food at that. I'm thankful I have a fun job, great coworkers, and an awesome boss. I'm thankful I have a new car–my old one was seriously demonic (sorry little brother now driving said car). I'm thankful I have a wonderful, loving family. I'm thankful I have this blog and am doing what I LOVE. I'm thankful for my friends–both invisible internet friends (I seriously love you all) and real-life. I'm thankful I have the most amazing "dog son" in the entire world. Ever. And I'm thankful that I can spend his second chance at life with him. I love him SO much more than anyone could imagine. I'm thankful to have a closet full of kickass clothes, even if I'm terribly fickle and only like them half of the time. I'm thankful for my health, and my body; it's not the skinniest, but it's healthy and beautiful.
I'm thankful to live in this country. We may bicker over politics but ultimately, we live in an awesome place. I'm thankful for mascara. Hello, stubbly lashes. I'm thankful for boots. I live in you so comfortably during the holidays. I'm thankful for my education. I'm thankful for my mind. I'm thankful for my sense of humor–seriously one of my best qualities (modesty, sadly, is not). I'm thankful for my readers. You're all SO incredibly loyal, fantastic, funny, and sweet. This blog surely wouldn't be as successful without your loyalty toward reading, commenting and baking from The Domestic Rebel. I'm thankful for YOU! Yes, you!
You all rock. So much. Thank you. Here's hoping you have a wonderful, safe, plentiful Thanksgiving. And if you're going out on Black Friday, remember: have a game plan. And wear steel-toed boots. I mean, you never know. And be safe. Also, don't get trampled. That would seriously suck and no, a Furby for $54 is NEVERRRRR worth it.
Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you saved room for some eggnog bars. They're truly delicious! Even eggnog haters will love them, swearsies.
Frosted Eggnog Spice Bars with Gingersnap Streusel *gingersnap streusel recipe from A Kitchen Addiction
- For the Eggnog Bars + Frosting:
- 1 box white cake mix
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup oil
- 3 tsp rum extract, divided
- 2 tsp cinnamon, divided
- Dash nutmeg
- 1 cup cinnamon chips
- 1 can cream cheese frosting
- For the Gingersnap Streusel:
- 1 & ¼ cup crushed gingersnap cookies
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp flour
- 3 Tbsp melted butter
- First, make your bars. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Liberally grease a 13x9" baking pan with cooking spray; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs, oil, two teaspoons of the rum extract, one teaspoon of the cinnamon + the nutmeg until well blended. Stir in the cinnamon chips.
- Spread the mixture into the prepared pan in an even layer. Bake for approx. 15-17 minutes or until lightly browned and center is set. Cool completely. While bars are cooling, mix the remaining teaspoon of rum extract and remaining teaspoon of cinnamon into the can of frosting; frost cooled bars with the frosting.
- In a medium bowl, combine the gingersnap streusel ingredients until well blended. Sprinkle the streusel evenly over the frosted bars. Chill about 20 minutes to set, then cut into squares. Store leftovers airtight at room temperature, for several days.
I love the festive sweetness of these eggnog bars. The cinnamon chips add such a delightfully spicy punch to these sweet bars. The rum extract, combined with the nutmeg and cinnamon, make for an authentic eggnog flavor packed in every buttery bite. And the gingersnap streusel is seriously amazing–buttery, spicy, crunchy, it balances the overt sweetness of the bars perfectly by adding a difference of flavor and texture that can't be beat! Seriously–nog haters, you will enjoy these!!
Happy Thanksgiving! I'm off to bury my face in some sweet potatoes.
xo, Hayley


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LeBron James thanked his fans for sticking by him and announced his return to Twitter early Friday in a video message posted on his website hours after the Heat won the NBA title.
"Oh man, I'm at a loss for words right now," said a smiling James, who sports glasses, a Heat champs hat and a t-shirt featuring his face.
James, the Finals MVP, also explained to his fans why he took the past couple months off Twitter.
"I want you all to know that I just wanted to try to get as focused as possible on this championship run, and as you can see, I am a champion," he said. "But without you guys, it wouldn't have been possible, you guys stuck with me throughout the whole playoffs, you guys stuck with me the last couple of years and thank you guys so much."
The 27-year-old, who joined the Heat two years ago, announced he's back on the social media site.
"You guys share this championship with me and this MVP trophy with me, this MVP finals trophy with me," James says. "Love you guys and I am back."
Hours later, James tweeted again.
"I think it just hit me, I'm a CHAMPION!! I AM a CHAMPION!!" he wrote in part.


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Part of National Museums Liverpool
26 April to 8 June 2008
RS Thomas Triptych
'Standing Stones by Terry Duffy' at the Walker Art Gallery was a vibrant and challenging start to a series of exhibitions by the Liverpool born international artist in 2008. It forms part of his 'MONUMENTS' project, held at various venues across Liverpool during European Capital of Culture year.
As a group of paintings the 'Standing Stones' provides an overview of more recent developments in Duffy's work, exploring both commemorative and personal themes. The title Standing Stones is a metaphor for humanity. It expresses Duffy's long-term fascination with humankind's legacy and the decisions made for good or evil by individuals, groups, societies and cultures.
The 'RS Thomas Triptych', completed in 2000, was the centrepiece of the RS Thomas commemoration at the prestigious Welsh Academy, Cardiff in 2001. These paintings portray in abstract form the passion and intensity of this internationally renowned poet.
The 'Poem in the Rock' diptych from 2002 re-employs the vessel shape from Duffy's earlier works of the 1980s. The shape acts as a visual metaphor for the human torso, created using vibrant and spatial colours. The overall work suggests a positive sense of humanity.
The final pair 'Somewhere between life and death we make decisions' have only just been completed. The work demonstrates Duffy's unique experiments in oils on sheer 'hot pressed board'. These paintings are pared right back. By ripping away at the board the artist creates dynamic shapes that suggest the human form but simultaneously retain an ambiguity. The effect is uncompromising and thought provoking.
Duffy's work questions the very nature of painting by producing works of ambiguous and sculptural shapes. In his work brush strokes all but disappear within a membrane of colour and the slightest scratch or incision becomes crucial.
Terry Duffy was born in Liverpool and studied at Liverpool Art School, winning an early scholarship at the age of 13. During the 1970s he worked briefly with Joseph Beuys and John Cage exploring the then radical issues in Live Art. In 1985 Duffy was a founder of Liverpool's Arena Studios. His artwork 'Victim, no resurrection' (1983), a crucifix over four meters (14ft) high, attracted major funding and national media coverage. This artwork relating to the UK riots of 1981 has continuing relevance, with displays in Liverpool, New York and presently Chichester Cathedral.
Duffy has exhibited internationally and his work is held in collections worldwide. He has won a number of major awards and commissions. In 1991 his enormous painting 'The miraculous draft of fishes' was in the John Moores 17 exhibition, here at the Walker Art Gallery. In 1992 the artist was the British Council's visiting Professor of Fine Art in Budapest. Duffy was recently on the jury of the first Liverpool Art Prize. At the time of writing he was working on his 'MONUMENTS' pan-European project, to be launched in Liverpool in autumn 2008. His studio is in Shoreditch, London.
Terry Duffy website
This exhibition has been made possible with the assistance of the Government Indemnity Scheme, which is provided by DCMS and administered by MLA.
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I thought I would start the day with something simple. I know I have been submitting some pretty random stuff, and to tell you the truth, it's going to get even more random because I'm about to show you "how to draw a bug", step by step. Drawing insects is probably one of the funnest and easiest things to do. I wanted make a simple drawing of a bug so that everyone would be able to tackle, and complete the lesson with ease. I'm not going to ramble on about nothing in this tutorial description, because I feel that I have said so much already about bugs, insects, and all sorts of bug related facts with my past submissions. If you want to view more lessons on different insect species, all you have to do is go under the animals category, and click on insects. You will be brought to a page filled with tutorials on many different bugs in existence. I guess that is all I have to say for now. Have fun as you walk through this easy lesson that will teach you "how to draw a bug". Adios people, and have an awesome drawing day!
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Dear Dr. Frascino, I do believe that you are only standing on the tip of the ice burg refusing to believe that ice exist below the water when you answered "Imusil Introvenously (THE CURE FOR AIDS)". If such a cure did exist (which it probably does) tons of people biochemist such as my self would be indefinitely out of business/jobs. The most likely reason why the FDA turned down the release of Imusil/Tetrasil is because it would ruin the economy greatly.
By slowing down the AIDS/HIV virus rather then eliminating it big corporations are able to drain much more money out of its consumers. If there were to be a one-time use cure all it would eliminate this on-going cash flow there by destroying the companies revenue.
So in the end its not about if the cure exist or not but how the cure would effect the economy. Do the benefits out weigh the losses? As of right now the losses must be winning because we arent benefitting form the cure yet.
Yours Truly: Gerswin Hakalakavitch
Hello Gerswin Hakalakavitch,
If indeed you are a biochemist, you should be able to distinguish fact from fantasy. Unfortunately you appear to be more of a conspiracy theorist than biochemist! I stand by my comments (see below). By the way the scientific community supports my analysis of this bogus cure. I'll also print some general information about curing HIV below. Perhaps that will help put things into perspective for you . . . but I tend to think not because you seem wed to your "belief" rather than scientific fact and common sense.
Dr. Bob
Imusil Introvenously (THE CURE FOR AIDS) May 1, 2008
Hi Doc
I hear that Tetrasil/Imusil is the cure for HIV/AIDS. Why is this product and information being withheld from us? We need a cure, I feel that all victims are being cheated out of this? Why does BIG PHARMA do this to us? I am rapidly losing faith in the FDA and their murdering medications! Why are they milking us of our money, and killing us with their hopeless medications? Wheres the cure doc? I'm not look for a smart arse answer either, Im looking for an honest one.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi, You "heard that Tetrasil/Imusil is the cure for HIV/AIDS"?????? Well slap my butt and call me a Republican. By golly that's such good news!!! Certainly because you "heard" it, it's just got to be true, right????
You want an honest answer? OK! Here you go: Do you really think you are the only one of us who would like a safe and effective cure for AIDS??? Do you really think that if such a cure existed, I, Magic Johnson and 40,000,000 others around the world wouldn't demand it be made available? Do you think that insurance companies and the U.S. Government that are paying high costs for HIV treatment wouldn't demand "the cure" be made available! Do you really think "BIG PHARMA" could prevent "the cure" from being distributed? You may be rapidly losing faith in the FDA and their "murdering medications," but I can tell you if it were not for the availability of those very same medications I wouldn't be here today addressing nonsensical rants like yours! I'd suggest you rent on Netflix the PBS documentary "Age of AIDS." It chronicles the first 25 years of the epidemic. (It was not made by Big Pharma!) Perhaps it will give you a more realistic perspective on the epidemic.
Returning now to your question, "where's the cure?" It doesn't exist! At least not yet. (You can read my comments about finding the cure in the archives.)
As for tetrasilver tetroxide (Tetrasil/Imusil), it is not a cure for HIV/AIDS or anything else as far as I can tell. The proposed mechanism of action is science fiction. It makes absolutely no sense to anyone who understands science (or has basic common sense). Silver ions do not "fire electric charges" any more than they dance the rumba. Proponents of this snake oil obviously do not understand the most basic principles of chemistry, physics, pharmacology or medicine. There is not even a theoretical basis for these outlandish claims of a cure!
I'll reprint below some posts from the archives that discuss colloidal silver therapy.
I realize you may consider my response to be a "smart arse answer," but as it turns out my arse is indeed much smarter than your moronic question and ludicrous assumptions!
Dr. Bob
Colloidal Silver vs. HIV meds ? May 18, 2003
Dr. Frascino, I've read about Colloidal Silver incredible powers and some hiv+ people swear by it. They claim it keeps their VL down substantially to almost un-detecatble levels. Couple of spoons of this liquid a day and they are almost free of any HIV meds. What is your opinion about this ancient medication(recently improved creation process to obtain more silver particles)? Thank you a bunch for your most valuable answer :)
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello :)
And I read that chewing on the horn of a rhinoceros will make your penis grow and additional 3 inches. And "some people swear by it!"
There is a good rule to follow when you hear about these miraculous cures and treatments: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!" I do hope you find this answer helpful, because colloidal silvers affect on HIV isnt!!!
Id now recommend you immediately cancel both orders the rhino horn and the colloidal silver, even though for a limited time only, "they" are offering a 6-month supply for the price of only 3 months with a money-back guarantee and a free Chia Pet if you are one of the first 1000 people to order!
Save your money and stay posted to this website for real stories regarding evolving and new treatments.
Stay well.
Dr. Bob
Kills HIV virus: follow up Mar 8, 2007
Please people, don't believe everything you hear/read. Collodal silver is a disinfectant, yes, but so is bleach, and i don't see you pumping that in your veins or drinking gallons of it. By the way: virusses don't have a metabolism - senso stricto they're just clumps of proten, fat and sugar that are totally dependent on a host to perform their replication. So crap about colloidal silver reacting with enzymes involven in aerobic metabolism cannot be correct in the case of virusses. I'm a scientist, have seen great things about colloidal silver (in combination with other disinfectants it's really good), but that doesn't mean it's safe in our bodies. Actually, you can google some nice pictures of people who took this colloidal silver fad too far, and now have a distinctly metallic hue to their skintone... Be sceptical, trust these good doctors. And remember: first of all, do no harm when looking for alternative therapies.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Thanks for your input and common sense.
Dr. Bob
Kills HIV virus? (Mar 6, 2007)
Dr. Franscino,
Its great to be back and ask you a few more questions. I thank you for your sympathy and support toward people with HIV.
I have been reading for quite some time that colloidal silver reportedly disables the enzyme that one-celled bacteria, viruses and fungi need for their oxygen metabolism. They suffocate without corresponding harm occurring to human enzymes or parts of the human body chemistry. The result is the destruction of disease-causing organisms in the body and in the food. Though, there is a debate of what concentration does actually kill the virus.
I know pharmaceutical companies dont want to hear this (too much money involved), and of course Doctors are bombarded with pharmaceutical reps giving them the "latest and best" drug out there and inviting them to dinner meetings and so on. So basically, when doctors see a symptom, they prescribe the medicine that Pharm reps trained them on.
My question to you is, how truthful is that colloidal silver kills HIV? Has the medical industry tested it before discarding it? Or is this something that the medical community is not interested in due to loss of patients?
I fervently await your response.
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hi Jean,
I haven't changed my opinion on this since the last time I mentioned it in these forums. (See below.)
Having just returned form a major HIV/AIDS conference in Los Angeles, I can assure you there is no new information to support the use of colloidal silver in HIV-positive folks. As for the medical community not being interested due to "loss of patients," I, for one, would not recommend unproven therapies for exactly that reason. However, you and I may be defining "loss" somewhat differently!
Dr. Bob
unproven (Aug 23, 2006)
My friend knows a doctor who performs collidial silver injections. I was shown the results on a few patients who had low cd4s and viral loads. although this is not fda approved what do you think?
thanks, mike
Response from Dr. Frascino
Hello Mike,
What do I think?
I think colloidal silver injections are a very bad and potentially dangerous alternative therapy. To my knowledge there is not a shred of scientific evidence that supports using this product for HIV/AIDS. The reason the FDA hasn't approved it is because it doesn't work.
Mike, this is definitely a case of "buyer beware." I'd avoid the stuff like the plague.
Dr. Bob
After 25 years why is there no cure? Apr 3, 2009
I just don't believe we can't cure HIV. Are scientists or big pharma or the government withholding the cure? Zack
Advertisement Response from Dr. Frascino
"Are scientists or big pharma, or the government withholding the cure?" The answer would be none of the above! Would you like to guess how many viral illnesses have ever been cured with medical treatment??? One! That's correct: Only one hepatitis C and that one is not cured very often. Viruses are not like bacteria, which can be wiped out by using antibiotics. Viruses are much craftier. Some viral illnesses, while not curable with medication, can be effectively prevented with vaccinations (measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A and B, etc.). Other viruses that infect us cause problems initially and then remain dormant in our systems essentially forever (herpes, EBV, etc.). There are loads of viruses that infect us and then spontaneously resolve on their own as they run their course. (The common cold and flu are excellent examples.) And of course there are some really, really nasty viruses out there that can put you six feet under very quickly (Ebola for instance).
I really don't understand why conspiracy theorists insist the cure to AIDS is being suppressed by wicked governmental forces (after all Cheney's been kicked out of Washington, right?) or money-grubbing pharmaceutical giants. Has it ever crossed your mind that there are loads and loads of diseases that have been around for much longer than HIV/AIDS that we can't cure? What about diabetes, heart disease, stroke, asthma, arthritis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and "the heartbreak of psoriasis" frevinsakes! Are the government and big pharma suppressing cures for these ailments as well?
Eventually we will cure these ailments and HIV/AIDS too. Unfortunately the cure is not on the horizon just yet. In the meantime it's worth noting that the progress we've made in treating HIV/AIDS over a relatively short period of time is nothing less than miraculous!
Dr. Bob


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• Environment Agency expects more homes to flood this weekend
• 77-year-old man dies after being hit by falling tree in his garden
• Huge fire in Wales after winds bring down high voltage power lines
• Met Office extends amber weather warning for high winds to the Southeast
• David Cameron 'very sorry' for flood crisis
• Watch a real time map of the storms as they hit the UK
That concludes the Telegraph's coverage of the storms tonight, for the latest click here. The Telegraph's coverage of the storms battering Britain will resume on Saturday.
20.52 Gusts of 70mph reported to be moving across South West England, as hill snow moves across Scotland.
20.44 The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at the Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing and the A249 Sheppey Crossing will close tonight due to high winds.
The Highways Agency said both bridges would be closed from around 9pm tonight until when winds ease, which is expected to be around mid afternoon on Saturday.
Southbound traffic at the Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing will be diverted to use the east bore of the Dartford Tunnel and northbound traffic to use the west bore. As a consequence, drivers of overheight vehicles (over 15ft 9 / 4.8 metres) are advised that they will be unable to use the east bore, which will be closed in advance of the QEII bridge.
Drivers travelling between the Isle of Sheppey and the mainland are being diverted via the original crossing, the Kingsferry lifting bridge.
Road users are advised to expect delays at both crossings.
A Coton de Tulear dog is blown by strong winds on the beach in Lyme Regis (REUTERS)
20.17 A friend of one of two cyclists killed when they were struck by a car following a suspected police pursuit in a flood-hit village has described him as "the friend that everyone wished they could be".
Police called to a "fear-for-welfare" incident saw a black BMW convertible linked to the call-out.
As the car travelled on the A329 Purley Rise in Purley on Thames, Berkshire, at 9pm yesterday, it crashed into two cyclists who died at the scene.
The riders were named locally as Kris Jarvis and 29-year-old father-of-two John Morland.
A man has been arrested over the incident as the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), said it was carrying out an assessment.
Aidan Clayton, a friend of Mr Jarvis for almost 30 years, said: "Kris always said he'd die on his bike, such was his love for cycling!"
"None of his loving family or friends could ever imagine that this would be the way he would've expected it to happen."
"He'll be referred to as the friend that everyone wished they could be."
Mr Morland's mother-in-law, who gave her name only as Janet, left a bouquet of red and white flowers at the scene.
She said her daughter was too upset to speak. "My daughter's in bits and the children too," she said.
The woman said that Mr Jarvis was a father of five.
One local resident said he saw a big flash of light and when he looked out, he saw two bodies lying on the ground outside his house.
The man, who did not want to be named, said: "I've been told it was a police chase.
"The car rolled over and ended up outside the house and someone was being cut out of it. I didn't do anything as the police were already here."
The man added that it was an "accident blackspot" with many crashes at the scene before.
A bent signpost and two traffic bollards could be seen at the side of the road where the accident happened, with displaced earth underneath it.
A bicycle seat and other debris could be seen in bushes to the side of the road, which has a 30mph speed limit.
Purley on Thames is one of the areas worst hit by the flooding in the Thames Valley.
Ed Miliband visited the village earlier this week and urged the Government to put pressure on insurance companies so flood victims do not have to wait for payouts.
19.53 People who have been taking advantage of flood victims through looting and scams have been condemned.
In Staines-upon-Thames in Surrey thieves stole a kayak on Thursday that had been used to transport people and goods.
Detective Sergeant Mike Seear, who was investigating the theft, said: "This type of behaviour, at a time when the whole community is working together to battle against the impact of flooding is appalling.
"These thieves have not only stolen from the owner but taken a vital resource from the local community at a time when they need it the most."
While in Portsmouth, fraudsters pretending to be from the National Flood Helpline were wrongly telling people to evacuate.
19.47 Before and after images, taking using a satellite camera, of flooding in Bridgwater in Somerset have been released.
Before image (DMC International Imaging (DMCii))
After image (DMC International Imaging (DMCii))
19.45 Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, who has chaired a Cobra meeting, vowed to deploy further police and military personnel "where needed".
He said: "I have been updated on the weather conditions, which will remain very challenging over the weekend with more high winds and rainfall.
"In addition there is an increased flood risk to the South Coast overnight and work has been continuing there to improve defences and inform people.
"All agencies are working effectively together on the ground and where needed extra police and military personal are being made available. Work also continues to keep our road and rail networks operating.
"Power has been restored by energy companies today to over half a million homes and work is going on in North Wales to get the remainder of people reconnected. I applaud the efforts of staff who have reconnected so many homes so quickly, often in very difficult conditions.
"I want to reassure the public that we are working tirelessly to ensure that everyone gets the support and help they need."
19.12 The Environment Agency has suspended plans to axe hundreds of jobs, as staff battle the elements alongside emergency services and local authorities, although concerns remained they would press ahead with redundancies after the flood waters receded.
Chief fire and rescue adviser Peter Holland said 70 per cent of England's fire and rescue services are involved in the flood and storm relief effort.
He said more than 1,000 people have been rescued so far and Scottish fire services may be called in to the North of England if needed.
"Over 70% of fire and rescue services are involved in the operation," he said. "That's actually going to increase over the next 12 hours, more vehicles are going to be called in as more pumping can take place particularly in the Thames area.
"But I do want to reassure people that there are still plenty of fire engines in their local communities to respond to fires while this operation is taking place."
Some 17,000 people were still without power in North Wales.
Since early December, 5,800 properties have been flooded across the country.
Leading economist and climate expert Lord Stern has said the record rainfall and storm surges the UK had experienced were a "clear sign" the country was already experiencing the impacts of climate change.
19.00 As Princes William and Harry visited Datchet, the Queen has also pledged to help with the flood relief effort.
The Queen has contributed feed and bedding from the royal farms at Windsor for farmers affected by the floods in Somerset, a spokesman for Buckingham Palace said.
Fiona Hanson
18.51 Orwell Bridge in Suffolk is due to close tonight due to high winds, the Highways Agency has confirmed.
The A14 bridge, near Ipswich will close from 10pm as winds are expected to exceed 60mph.
18.45 Firefighters on the Somerset Levels are asking parents to keep children away from flood water and in Dorset, members of the public are being urged to stay away from coastal areas this weekend as violent storms batter beaches, cliffs and promenades.
The extreme conditions will also increase the likelihood of landslips along the Jurassic Coast, posing a real threat to people on coastal paths, clifftops and beaches.
Many train services were disrupted this evening, with East Coast train company urging people to complete their journeys on the line as early as possible, as winds of up to 70mph are expected.
Speed restrictions were imposed on many southern England services where landslips have added to the flooding problems. Passengers were advised journeys could take up to 60 minutes longer tonight.
More temporary flood defences are being deployed across the Thames Valley, including at Chertsey in Surrey to protect up to 200 homes and at Staines in Berkshire, to protect around 150 homes.
18.42 Images of flooding across the UK have been taken by satellite UK-DMC2, which is operated by DMCii. This picture is of the impact of the downpours across Oxford.
18.40 Six schools in Tewkesbury were closed today because of access problems due to road closures caused by the flooding.
Meanwhile, the county council is making £50,000 available to support people affected by the floods.
Residents can claim up to £1,000 per flooded property to help replace damaged furniture and essentials or to help with the most immediate needs.
18.16 More than 17,000 people remain without power after heavy rain and gale force winds lashed parts of Britain.
And Britain's flooding crisis is set to deepen with further rainfall sweeping through the south.
Experts warned hundreds more homes face flooding over the next 36 hours.
Toby Willison, the Environment Agency's Programme Director, said: "We are likely to see more severe flood warnings along the south coast, representing the risk from very strong and big waves.
"Our main areas of concern are along the south coast to Gloucester, where levels are still very high."
He said following further downpours today, levels of the River Thames and River Severn were expected to remain high for a number of days. Areas affected by groundwater flooding, including Dorset, Sussex and Kent, will "potentially take weeks" to recover.
Tony Glover, Director of Policy at Energy Networks Association, said large swathes of north west England was left "devastated" after gale force winds and heavy rain battered the region.
More than 17,000 people in the area are still without power in the area, although they have restored electricity to over half a million people over the last day or so.
17.35 Soldiers drafted in to fight flooding in Gloucestershire will spend tonight packing 20,000 sandbags to add to the defences.
The troops from Wiltshire-based 3rd (UK) Division under the command of 43 (Wessex) Brigade will do the packing at the Imjin Barracks in Innsworth, Gloucestershire to help flood affected residents of Tewkesbury.
"A delivery of 250 tonne of sand and 20,000 empty sandbags arrived at the Gloucestershire barracks this morning. A total of 160 soldiers will pack and prepare the sandbags," said a Gloucestershire police spokesman.
"Later the soldiers will assist in Tewkesbury out on the ground placing the sandbags to protect the local community from the rising river levels.
"Gloucestershire Highways continues to keep a close eye on the county's roads and Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service and Gloucestershire Police are providing a coordinated emergency response with partner agencies."
Major Robin Davies, Officer Commanding HQ Company to Royal Welsh said: "I am here with 80 soldiers from HQ Company filling sandbags in support of the local flood resilience effort in Gloucestershire. It's a real pleasure to be able to lend our support to the home towns and counties that have backed our troops out in Afghanistan and Iraq.
"We already have 1000 sand bags ready to go and we will be working with the local authority to make sure they get to where they need to be as soon as possible."
17.05 The Environment Agency has issued 23 severe flood warnings, the most serious threat to life warnings, in place for the UK, with most of these concentrated in the Southeast and Southwest. There are also 194 flood warnings, which also include the Midlands.
16.58 Strong winds of up to 80mph have been forecast for the South West and South East of England this evening, the Highways Agency says.
16.19 The Navy has been drafted in to prevent damage to an historic school.
Trainees from HMS Collingwood at Fareham, Hampshire, have been helping at the Pilgrims' School in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral by helping to fill sandbags to keep wtaers at bay.
The school has already sustained flood damage to its Pilgrims' Hall, which dates back to 1310, after the nearby River Itchen burst its banks.
The school, which is the choir school of Winchester Cathedral, has 240 pupils and two classes of four to seven-year-olds trooped out of their plastic-protected classrooms to meet the sailors.
Pilgrims' School before the storms hit the UK (ALAMY)
16.12 The M48 Severn Bridge has been closed in both directions because of high winds.
The Highways Agency said the crossing had been shut off to traffic because of an incident and the force of winds at the bridge. They have advised drivers to check weather forecasts and road conditions before they travel today and on Saturday.
It has also issued a severe weather alert for drivers of motorbikes, caravans and high sided vehicles because they are at risk of being blown over in the strong winds.
16.03 Major General Patrick Sanders, the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations), said 2,200 armed forces personnel were taking part in the flood relief operation, with a further 3,000 on stand-by.
An RAF Tornado GR4 reconnaissance aircraft has been providing aerial imagery of the Thames Valley while a specialist surveillance aircraft has been providing radar mapping to enable emergency service commanders to identify where problems may occur. Eleven helicopters are also on stand-by.
Maj Gen Sanders said the tasks the troops had been undertaking had included filling sandbags, helping the elderly in and out of their flooded homes, and taking children to school, while a group of vehicle mechanics from the Household Cavalry Regiment had even rescued a swan.
"We are ready to support wherever in the United Kingdom it is required," he said. "The armed forces are on an enduring operational footing to fight the impact of these floods and we will do it for as long as we are needed."
15.50 A visual map of the storms as they hit the UK has been created, as people prepare for more high winds and rain, and can be seen here.
15.35 The Environment Agency has said it expects to see more homes flood this weekend, bringing further misery to people living in soaked areas of the UK.
During a briefing at Whitehall, Peter Willison, of the agency, said:
We are likely to see more severe flood warnings along the south coast representing the risk from very strong and big waves.
The rainfall that we will see today, that will bring river levels back up on the Thames and we expect levels on slow responding rivers like the Thames, like the Severn, to stay high for a number of days to come.
This remains a very live event. I expect we will see further property flooding."
15.27 Green Party politicians have said long term action needs to be taken on climate change to reduce the risk of future floods, as they call for 'climate sceptics' - including Owen Paterson - to be removed from their posts.
Caroline Lucas said: "Across the country, homes and businesses are being devastated by the floods, and our hearts go out to everyone whose life is being turned upside down. Nature is giving us another wake-up call.
Hayden West/Rex Features
She added: "In addition to making sure everything possible is done to help people affected by the immediate crisis, we need a credible long-term strategy to tackle the risk of flooding and extreme weather to people's homes and livelihoods in the future."
The party also called for staff cuts at the Environment Agency to be cancelled and for more spending on flood defences in the face of climate change.
15.11 Firefighters on the Somerset Levels are asking parents to keep children away from flood water during half term.
Station manager Kevin Hardwill, of Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, said: "Unsupervised children and water do not mix.
"The added interest of the flooding on the Somerset Levels could lead to children exploring in areas which could put them in danger.
"We would ask parents to warn their children of the risks and to keep them away from flood water."
As more rain is set to fall this weekend water levels in Somerset are expected to remain high, and there is likely to be standing water.
14.55 Telegraph reporter Claire Duffin has sent in footage of Princes William and Harry, who were waist-deep in flood water while laying sandbags at Eton End private school in Datchet.
14.45 A new flood warning has been issued by the Environment Agency, taking the total number to 18. The warning extends from Lands End to Plymouth and has been prompted by tidal surges and gale force winds forecast to hit the coast of Devon and Cornwall.
The Environment Agency says:
A Severe Flood Warning is in force for Friday evenings tide and a Flood Warning is in force for Saturday morning.
Strong winds, tidal surge and large waves may cause flooding at exposed locations. Locations with damage to defences, buildings and structures, will be especially vulnerable.
These locations include: Penzance, Newlyn Green, Marazion, Longrock, Porthleven, St Mawes, Pentewan, Looe, Seaton, Kingsand, Cawsand and Plymouth.
High tide on Friday is between 16:40 and 18:00. The forecast surge height is over 1m, with Force 9 South South Westerly wind, and waves up to 6m. High tide on Saturday is between 05:00 and 06:00.
The forecast surge height is 360mm, with Force 8 South Westerly wind, and waves up to 6m. Conditions in exposed locations will be dangerous so please remain a safe distance from coastal frontages.
Conditions will usually apply 2 to 4 hours either side of high tide.
14.35 Local government minister Brandon Lewis said that the Government would apply for money from a European fund for regions hit by natural disasters if there was an appropriate scheme.
He said that ministers were making sure that "if there are things we can apply for, we will apply for them if they are appropriate and applicable".
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One:
The difficulty with the European solidarity fund is it has a very high threshold - £3.7 billion - and a percentage of whatever we get from it we have to give back eventually as well.
But the Government has made clear in the last couple of days we will look at every avenue to make sure we have got every bit of support out there that people need.
14.25 Datchet residents have said Princes William and Harry's visit has "gone down very well".
Graham Leaver, parish clerk, said:
They were very involved and wanting to know what was going on.
They have been in Datchet and the area and I think it's gone down very well. That is my assessment.
They were very natural. To be honest, they could have walked in among people here and nobody would have recognised them looking at the way they were dressed.
They came into our parish office and it took most of us a few minutes to realise they were there. They were particularly interested in talking to the troops. The support we have received from the Army has been absolutely excellent and if they hadn't come into Datchet we as a parish would have been overwhelmed.
We are all very grateful for the support we have had.
But although Prince Harry was happy enough to help out with the relief effort, he was less pleased to see journalists it seems.
When he was asked by reporters if he was enjoying helping out, he replied: "Not really, with you guys around."
Huge waves batter the promenade at Aberystwyth as the storm hits Wales with 100mph gales.
14.15 Dramatic CCTV footage of the moment a roof was ripped off a building in Shropshire in high winds has emerged.
A firm that runs a string of nursing homes caught the incident on camera after the roof a neighbouring building - a council-owned training centre - landed in their car park on Wednesday, damaging four vehicles.
A spokeswoman for Springcare, which runs 14 nursing and residential homes in Cheshire, Shropshire and the Wirral, said one employee had driven away from its head office shortly before the rectangular roof section landed.
"She left just a few minutes before and we are certainly lucky that it happened at 4.30pm and not at five o'clock when everybody would have been leaving," the spokeswoman said.
14.00 Residents in Gloucester are bracing themselves for flooding after fears were raised that flood defences could be breached tonight.
A severe flood warning remains in place along the River Severn in the city and the Environment Agency was warning the flood defences could be breached at high tide tonight.
The EA has issued a severe flood warning - meaning a risk to life - for Alney Island, which is about a mile from the city centre.
Chris Bainger, of EA, said Alney Island had "dodged the bullet" at high tide this morning but said flooding was expected tonight. He added:
What we are expecting here is some over-topping of defences, which is linked to a tidal surge coming up the river and also the fluvial water coming down and coming together in this area.
We have been working with the county council, other partners, the emergency services and the armed services.
We had the soldiers here helping us get this sandbagging in place and we have brought 3,000 sandbags into the area and they are doing their job. Hopefully these properties are prepared.
The flood wall is working right now and it is protecting these properties. But there is a risk - and hence the severe warning - that it could come over.
13.55 The 77-year-old has been named as Bob Thomas, who was retired and gathering in his hens in the garden at his home when the tree came crashing down.
His wife Jean, 65, was in the garden at the time and watched in horror as the tree was blown down.
She raised the alarm and Mr Thomas was treated by paramedics at his home in Caethro, near Caernarfon, North Wales.
He was rushed to hospital in Bangor before being transferred to a specialist unit in Stoke-on-Trent.
But doctors were unable to save him and he died of his injuries just 24 after the accident.
Neighbour Anne Wills, 85, said the area had been badly hit by the storm which has rocked the country.
She said: "Bob was such a lovely man, it's the last thing that anyone expect.
"The weather has been absolutely terrible on the street, the roof has been ripped off one house and we've had eight trees down.
"There's a giant hole outside my house where one tree was ripped out of the tarmac."
Prince Harry and Prince William during their visit to Datchet. Photo: ITV News
13.46 A 77-year-old man from Caernarfon, north Wales, has died in hospital after he was hit by a falling tree in his garden during Wednesday's storm.
12.50 Ukip leader Nigel Farage called for a public inquiry into the way the Environment Agency had acted and the extent to which key decisions on the dredging of rivers were the result of European Union directives.
"I want to know who was giving the Environment Agency their orders. Why were they not dredging the rivers, particularly in Somerset, when this time last year they were being screamed at to do so?" he told BBC News.
12.48 Leading economist and climate expert Lord Stern has said the record rainfall and storm surges the UK had experienced were a "clear sign" the country was already experiencing the impacts of climate change.
"A warmer atmosphere holds more water. Add to this the increase in sea level, particularly along the English Channel, which is making storm surges bigger, and it is clear why the risk of flooding in the UK is rising," he wrote in the Guardian.
12.44 The photo above shows the giant sitka spruce tree-covered land in the Killhope Forest last year and the photo below is what remains following the storm:
Photo: North news and pictures
12.40 The storms have flattened a red squirrel forrest in County Durham. The red squirrel is a protected species and has drastically reduced in numbers in the UK in recent years.
12.36 Prince William has suggested that reporters covering flood-hit Datchet should put their cameras down and "come and help", as he and Prince Harry joined the armed forces relief effort.
12.30 Here is a roundup of some of the problems affecting public transport:
Buses are replacing trains between Barmouth and Pwllheli until further notice
Flooding near Maidenhead, and between Didcot Parkway and Oxford, means First Great Western services are severely disrupted
Landslips at Stonegate and between Robertsbridge and Battle are causing problems on the line between Tonbridge and Hastings
12.29 Here is Prince Harry helping with the distribution of sandbags in Datchet
Photo: Robert Booth/Guardian News & Media Ltd
12. 25 The Met Office has extended its amber weather warning for high winds to hit London, the south-east and East Anglia, as well as the south-west.
12.10 Not only have William and Harry been providing practical help to flood victims but so has the Queen.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "The Queen is supporting Somerset farmers affected by the flooding on the Somerset Levels by contributing feed and bedding from the royal farms at Windsor."
11.50 Firefighters are battling to extinguish a blaze on peat bogland just a few hundred yards from a coastline pounded by storms and heavy rain.
There are unconfirmed reports that it may have started after high voltage power lines were blown over in high winds.
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze was spread along a half-mile stretch of the bog in the Cardigan Bay village of Borth near Aberystwyth and covered about two-and-a-half acres.
Villager Bryn Jones, 57, said: "It's an incredible scene to see flames and smoke in the middle of this storm weather.
"We have got used to waking up to floods, storm damage and even snow - but to see the land on fire was a bit of a shock."
The Cardigan Bay coast has borne the brunt of stormy weather with buildings hit by high winds this week after stormy seas badly damaged the seafront at Aberystwyth.
Fire crews are tacking a large fire which has broken out on the Borth Bog wetland nature reserve near Aberystwyth. Photo: Wales News Service
11.35 Telegraph reporter Claire Duffin is in Chertsey, where dozens of people are filling sandbags at the local church, including bell ringers and members of the clergy.
Volunteers say the River Thames has gone down 20cm since Tuesday. However they fear today's heavy rain could lead to more flooding in the coming days.
The volunteers are also asking people not to flush their toilets or use their washing machines and dishwashers.
Mark Anderson, who is helping organise the sandbag operation, said: "That water for toilets and the washing machine is currently safe in a reservoir somewhere, we don't want any more water in the system. The drains are already full so we are asking people not to."
Round the corner from St Peter's Church, in Bridge Street, the Environment Agency is filling a mile-long aqua dam with water. The huge installation is designed to protect more than 200 homes on the south side of the road from flooding and has been laid down the length of the street. However some people living on the north side said they feared their properties were being sacrificed to save others.
Andrew Graham, waterway operations manager at the Environment Agency, denied this was the case.
"It's a very difficult situation," he said. "The people on this side of the road would flood anyway if the water comes up. What we can do is stop the ones that are currently dry from flooding.
"But these aren't being sacrificed."
11.25 Kensington Palace has said Princes William and Harry will be heading to Datchet to help lay sandbags.
William & Harry "wanted to help with relief effort and felt the best way was through the Army", a spokesman said.
11.15 Dr Neil Macdonald, a senior lecturer in the Liverpool's School of Environmental Sciences, argues that the current flooding may not be as rare as some have claimed.
The UK has witnessed a number of high magnitude floods over the last 10-15 years, with the floods of 2000 in Yorkshire and Central England signalling the start of an apparent flood rich phase within which we are currently living. A number of such phases can be identified within the historical record over the last 500 years.
Up until 2000 there had been relatively few severe flood events (1968 and 1947) since the 1920s, which resulted in a long period within which societal memory of flooding reduced in many communities, as few prominent events occurred and therefore expectations of flood levels reduced.
He added:
Flood levels may vary throughout a catchment, so a flood level may be higher or lower upstream or downstream of a site as a result of local factors and additional flows from tributaries or groundwater.
Some care is needed in interpretation of the records, but what this highlights is that the current flooding is not quite as rare as some have claimed, with comparable or larger floods evident throughout the last couple of centuries, including a number of large floods recorded on the Thames in 1774, 1852, 1894 and 1947; across the Somerset levels in 1811, 1876, 1894 and 1929 and on the River Severn in 1672, 1770, 1795, 1852, 1869 and 1947.
A flooded road in Runnymede. Photo: AFP
10.55 David Cameron ordered councils to stop charging residents for sandbags yesterday amid accusations they are exploiting victims of the flooding crisis.
Today, Surrey Police are urging people not to buy sandbags from opportunist door-to-door salesman.
10.45 Two cyclists were killed when they were struck by a car following a suspected police pursuit in a flood-hit village, it has emerged.
Police called to a "fear-for-welfare" incident saw a black BMW convertible linked to the call-out.
As the car travelled on the A329 Purley Rise in Purley on Thames, Berkshire, at 9pm yesterday, it crashed into two cyclists who died at the scene.
man has been arrested over the incident as the police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), said it was carrying out an assessment.
One local resident said he saw a big flash of light and when he looked out, he saw two bodies lying on the ground outside his house.
The man, who did not want to be named, said: "I've been told it was a police chase.
"The car rolled over and ended up outside the house and someone was being cut out of it. I didn't do anything as the police were already here."
The man added that it was an "accident blackspot" with many crashes at the scene before.
Prime Minister David Cameron talks to a builder (name not given) who is repairing a building that was damaged in the recent bad weather in Blackpool. Photo: PA
10.35 David Cameron has apologised for the suffering caused by the flooding and storms that have struck the country. The Prime Minister said he was "very sorry" for the way people have suffered in the storms, and said a "massive national effort" was underway to protect homes as floodwaters rise in coming days.
The PM warned that flooding would take a toll on the economy, following predictions by analysts that the bad weather could knock as much as one per cent off national output.
Asked whether he would repeat Communities Secretary Eric Pickles' apology for the Government's early response to the crisis, Mr Cameron said:
Of course I am very sorry for any way that people have suffered.
What we have tried to do is stand up the emergency response arrangements as quickly as we could.
Prime Minister David Cameron talks to representatives from the emergency services, military, Network Rail and power companies. Photo: PA
10.20 The Environment Agency has 17 severe flood warnings in place for parts of Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Surrey and Somerset.
Flood warning map shows the locations where Flood Alerts, Flood Warnings or Severe Flood Warnings are in force. Photo: Enviroment Agency
10.10 Scores of houses along the swollen River Severn are at serious risk of flooding today as high tides block the torrent of water coming downriver, reports Telegraph journalist Sam Marsden.
The Environment Agency has issued a severe flood warning, meaning lives are at risk, for Alney Island, near Gloucester.
Residents had a lucky escape last night when the Severn failed to breach a flood defence wall, but there are further concerns that the river could come over the barrier at the high tide points at 10am and 10pm today.
Royal Marines from Taunton-based 40 Commando were urgently called in to erect sandbag defences around the 55 properties on the island, which stands in the middle of the Severn and includes a wetland nature reserve.
The homes have flooded regularly over the years, most recently in 2007, and only a handful of residents have decided to evacuate.
A man rides on a penny-farthing through floodwater in the town of Worcester. Photo: AFP
10.00 Good morning and welcome to our weather live blog, follow us here for all the latest updates on the storms which have been lashing Britain.
The Telegraph's chief reporter Gordon Rayner reports this morning that another 1,000 homes are likely to flood as fresh storms hit his weekend.
With a month's worth of rain falling on Friday and Saturday, towns on the Thames, Severn and in the South West will be exposed to the flooding that has already forced 6,000 families to evacuate their homes
The battle to contain the damage from the floods now involves 70 per cent of the country's Fire and Rescue Services – their biggest deployment since the Second World War.
An Environment Agency spokesman told The Telegraph that "around 1,000 additional properties are likely to flood during the next week". Affected areas may include Windsor, Maidenhead, Reading, Oxford, Gloucester and Tewkesbury or their environs.
Water levels in some areas downstream of Maidenhead will experience floods as deep as in 1947, the EA added.
It would mean that the number of people flooded since the start of the month would almost double. So far 1,239 properties have flooded since the end of January, bringing the total since early December to 5,957.
The flooded village of Moorland, Somerset as flood-hit communities face more misery in the coming days as further heavy rain, wind and snow is set to sweep across the UK. Photo: PA


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