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For programmable flexibility and extensibility, Data Transformation Services (DTS) has a lot to offer. From performing a simple one-time data transfer to developing complex workflow-driven packages, DTS gives developers the means to implement solutions that match the complexity of their data transformation projects. In previous articles, we discussed how to use custom packages to leverage the DTS object model. This month, we take that discussion further by examining custom tasks, what they are, and why you might use them. We then detail how to build a custom task and how to use it both graphically and programmatically.
What Is a Task?
Tasks are the components of work that a package performs, or the units of work within a package. A task might include executing a script, spawning an external process, spawning a SQL task, or performing a data transformation.
As you can see in Figure 1, DTS contains eight built-in tasks, and each performs a specialized function. These tasks serve as the building blocks for transformation development. But what happens when the built-in tasks aren't sufficient to meet your project requirements? To answer this question, let's look at how tasks fit into the DTS package object model. Figure 2, page 54, details the major collections of a package and illustrates how the built-in tasks derive from the CustomTask object. All tasks, both built-in and user-created, derive from the CustomTask object. Through the CustomTask object, you can extend DTS by creating new tasks to supplement the eight built-in tasks that ship with SQL Server. COM applications use custom tasks directly in the DTS object interfaces, and once registered, the tasks are accessible through the DTS Package Designer.
Why Custom Tasks?
You might be wondering why you would use custom tasks, when you can implement an ActiveX script in a package and access external COM objects to extend those scripts. As is often the case in computing, you must make this design decision based on your projects' requirements. First, consider how DTS packages accomplish their work. Figure 3 shows the layers of abstraction involved in implementing a package. As we mentioned earlier, all packages perform their work through tasks. Tasks do the work directly or pass the work request to an ActiveX script for processing. The ActiveX script can service the job directly or call an external COM object for completion.
So, although implementing your component's business logic as COM objects offers the highest opportunity for reuse, it also adds extra layers of processing to your package. Using custom tasks to accomplish the same work that you might otherwise assign to an ActiveX script and external COM object can increase a package's execution speed and reduce its complexity. Custom tasks won't necessarily help manipulate the data stream (that's the job of a DTS Data Pump—see "Pump Up the Power of DTS," June 1999, for more), but if you need utility tasks to support your package, a custom task might be the answer.
Building a Task
Consider the following example: You're building a data warehouse, and the source data is on a remote, proprietary system that is accessible only by using FTP. Part of the workflow for your weekly refresh cycle needs to include retrieving the data files from this remote system. To retrieve the files and make the FTP process a step within a package's workflow, you can use Visual Basic (VB) to implement an FTP custom task. Note that you can use any COM-compliant programming language to implement custom tasks.
First, create a new VB project. Add a reference to the DTS Package object model, then add a reference to the Internet control. Create a new ActiveX DLL called FTPCustomTask, and name the class module FTPTask. After the project exists, add the object reference. Screen 1 shows the DTS OLE Automation interface that this example uses and that the Microsoft DTSPackage Object Library provides. Next, you need to add a component to provide FTP functionality to the project. As Screen 2 shows, the component is the Microsoft Internet Transfer Control (ITC—for either VB Profes-sional or Enterprise Edition). Now that you've established the environment, create your FTPTask. We wrote this application as a single VB class module. For illustrative purposes, we have broken the task into separate listings. To recreate the task in your environment, combine Listings 1 through 3 into the class module. Alternatively, you can download the finished VB projects at the link to this article, which is available to all subscribers at http://www.sqlmag.com.
All tasks must support the CustomTask object interface. Figure 4 shows the properties and method of the CustomTask object. By inheriting this interface, a DTS package controls the tasks. VB accomplishes this control through the Implements statement. The FTPCustomTask declarations, which you see in Listing 1, begin by using the Implements statement to inherit the CustomTask class. Below the Implements statement are the declarations of the local implementation of the custom task's Name and Description properties. The final section of declarations defines the properties you need to support your FTP implementation.
Next, you implement all the CustomTask interface's exposed attributes. Listing 2 details these implementations. The Name and Description property implementations are nothing more than standard VB property declarations using the msName and msDescription variables previously declared. In the task's Properties collection, things get interesting. As you might guess, the Properties collection contains Property objects that expose the attributes of the task. For highly specialized processing, developers may opt to implement customized code to support a collection of data. However, rather than forcing developers to add collection-support code, DTS can implement the collection. By leveraging COM, the CustomTask object performs the implementation by internally querying the custom task's interface and, through the DTS PropertyProvider utility, collecting any publicly declared attributes as members of the Task's Properties collection. To take advantage of this built-in functionality, simply set the Properties collection to Nothing and declare the FTP-specific variables as Public. Note that the PropertyProvider utility recognizes only attributes that are declared as Public; attributes declared Public using the VB Property Let and Property Get syntax are not correctly exposed.
Now, you must implement the task's Execute method. The Execute method performs the task's work; therefore, its definition is crucial to the task. However, because a step executes a task's actions, the Execute method is never directly invoked. Listing 3 (which you can download along with Listing 4 at the link to this article at http://www.sqlmag.com) details the task's Execute method. Within the subroutine, declare two variables, oINet and oPackage. The oINet object references the ITC. Use the oPackage object to access any package-level properties—global variables, for example—that you might need. To do so, set oPackage to the parameter pPackage of the Execute method. Using this variable is optional. However, if you use it in your task, don't forget to release the reference before completing your task, or unexpected results might occur. Then set the task's execution status parameter, pTaskResult, to the DTS constant DTSTaskExecResult _Success. If a problem occurs, use your subroutine's error handler to reset the status value to DTSTaskExecResult_Failure.
The next section of the Execute method creates the ITC object and performs the FTP processing. Note that to make the FTP process work, you must supply several values, including the URL, a User Name, a Password, and the Source and Destination file names. (You might need to set the task's FTP Control configuration to support the proxy or firewall your network uses.) You obtain these values at runtime through the task's previously defined Properties collection. After the oINet object is created and initialized, the task performs an FTP GET operation to retrieve the data file. If the transfer is successful, the task's next action is an attempt to delete the source file to prevent accidentally re-importing it.
Set the task's execution status value to signal a failure if the transfer fails. At this point, the FTP work is complete and the FTP QUIT command terminates the connection. Before exiting the subroutine, either successfully or through the error handler, release your object references by setting oINet and oPackage to Nothing. You have now completed the creation of the FTPCustomTask. After compiling, it is ready for use.
Using the FTPCustomTask Graphically
Now that you've created the FTPCustomTask, put it to work. For graphical use, you use the DTS Package Designer to register and access the task. First, create a new package. Select your SQL Server server's Data Transformation Services folder from Enterprise Manager, then right-click and select the New Package menu item. The Package Designer can't access the custom task until you register it on the local machine. To register the task, go to the Task menu of the DTS Package Designer and choose the Register Custom Task menu item. This selection launches the Register Custom Task dialog box, which Screen 3 shows. For this example, name the task FTP Task, and direct the registration utility to the FTPCustomTask DLL in the D:\FTPCustomTask\FTPCustomTask.dll directory (this is the same directory where you compiled your task). Also, if you supply an icon for the task, you can identify it here. The Package Designer uses the resulting icon to identify the FTP Task. For this example, use the default icon DTS supplies. After you choose OK in the Register Custom Task dialog box, your new FTP Task is registered and is dynamically added to the Package Designer's Task menu and to the Tasks section of the toolbar, as you see in Screen 4. The task is now ready to use. (Don't forget that if you want to register this task on another machine, you first need to copy and register the ITC in the target environment.)
To use the FTP Task, simply drag it into the Package Designer's work area and set its properties. DTS uses an internal utility to identify FTP properties. Likewise, at package design time, DTS provides a graphical interface for setting those properties. Screen 5 shows the Custom Task Properties dialog box, where you set the properties that control the transfer of the data file. (You need to tailor these values to your FTP environment.) Note that the attributes in this dialog box are the ones you defined while building the task. After you set all the values, the task executes. A warning: During development of this task, we experienced several inconsistencies in testing between Windows 98 and Windows NT workstations. Applying the SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 1 beta code to each machine seemed to resolve the problem.
Using the FTPCustomTask Programmatically
Another option for using the FTPCustomTask is to access it programmatically through the DTS COM interfaces. Create a new VB project, and add a reference to the DTS Package object model. Create a new Standard EXE called FTPTaskExample, delete the default form, and add a module called FTPMain. After the project exists, add a reference to the Microsoft DTSPackage Object Library, as Screen 1 shows.
Now create a subroutine called Main to contain your package. Listing 4 (at http://www.sqlmag.com) details the code for an example package. We wrote this application as a single VB module. You can use Listing 4, adding the project references on Screen 1, to recreate the example in your environment. The subroutine begins by declaring the DTS objects that you want to use to implement the package. Next, create and initialize a DTS Package object. Like the VB project, this package is named FTPTaskExample.
To create a custom task, use the New method of the package's Tasks collection to create an instance of the FTPCustomTask.FTPTask object. Setting its name and description initializes it. For this example task, use the name FTPTask. As with the Package Designer, before you use the FTP Task, you must initialize its properties. The task exposes these attributes via its Properties collection.
Before you execute your package, you must add a step. Unlike when you use the Package Designer, which implicitly creates and associates steps with tasks, you must explicitly create a step and associate it with the task when you programmatically establish a task, or the task won't execute. To create and initialize your step, invoke the New method of the Steps collection. For this step, use the name Step and associate it with your task by assigning the value FTPTask to the step's TaskName property. Because the threading models supported by VB require all custom tasks written in VB to be executed on the main thread, set the step's property ExecuteInMainthread to True.
After adding the step to the package's Steps collection, you can execute the package. Following package execution, a message box displays, informing you that the task is complete. Finally, clean up your variables by setting all your objects to Nothing. The example application is now ready to compile and execute.
Custom tasks make a powerful addition to your DTS packages. In a future issue, we will examine custom transformations.


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Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages of the Americas as well as literature of the United States written in the Spanish language. It rose to particular prominence globally during the second half of the 20th century, largely due to the international success of the style known as magical realism. As such, the region's literature is often associated solely with this style, with the 20th Century literary movement known as Latin American Boom, and with its most famous exponent, Gabriel García Márquez. Latin American literature has a rich and complex tradition of literary production that dates back many centuries.
Pre-Columbian cultures were primarily oral, though the Aztecs and Mayans, for instance, produced elaborate codices. Oral accounts of mythological and religious beliefs were also sometimes recorded after the arrival of European colonizers, as was the case with the Popol Vuh. Moreover, a tradition of oral narrative survives to this day, for instance among the Quechua-speaking population of Peru and the Quiché of Guatemala.
From the very moment when Europeans encountered the New World, early explorers and conquistadores produced written accounts and crónicas of their experience, such as Columbus's letters or Bernal Díaz del Castillo's description of the conquest of Mexico. At times, colonial practices stirred a lively debate about the ethics of colonization and the status of the indigenous peoples, as reflected for instance in Bartolomé de las Casas's Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
Mestizos and natives also contributed to the body of colonial literature. Authors such as El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Guaman Poma wrote accounts of the Spanish conquest that show a perspective that often contrasts with the colonizers' accounts.
During the colonial period, written culture was often in the hands of the church, within which context Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wrote memorable poetry and philosophical essays. Towards the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th, a distinctive criollo literary tradition emerged, including the first novels such as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi's El Periquillo Sarniento (1816). The "libertadores" themselves were also often distinguished writers, such as Simón Bolívar and Andrés Bello.
The 19th century was a period of "foundational fictions" (in critic Doris Sommer's words), novels in the Romantic or Naturalist traditions that attempted to establish a sense of national identity, and which often focused on the indigenous question or the dichotomy of "civilization or barbarism", for which see, the Argentine Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo (1845), the Colombian Jorge Isaacs's María, Ecuadorian Juan León Mera's Cumandá (1879), or the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (1902). Such works are still the bedrocks of national canons, and usually mandatory elements of high school curricula.
Additionally, a gradual increase in women's education and writing during the 19th century brought more women writers to the forefront, including the Cuban Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda with the novel Sab (1841), a romantic novel offering subtle critique of slavery and the treatment of women in Cuba, and the Peruvian author Clorinda Matto de Turner who wrote what is considered one of the most important novels of "indigenismo" in the 19th century: Aves sin nido (1889).
Other important works of 19th Century Latin American literature include José Hernández's epic poem Martín Fierro (1872). The story of a poor gaucho drafted to fight a frontier war against Indians, Martín Fierro is an example of the "gauchesque", an Argentine genre of poetry centered around the lives of gauchos.
In the late 19th century, modernismo emerged, a poetic movement whose founding text was the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío's Azul (1888). This was the first Latin American literary movement to influence literary culture outside of the region, and was also the first truly Latin American literature, in that national differences were no longer so much at issue. José Martí, for instance, though a Cuban patriot, also lived in Mexico and the USA and wrote for journals in Argentina and elsewhere. And in 1900 the Uruguayan José Enrique Rodó wrote what became read as a manifesto for the region's cultural awakening, Ariel.
Though modernismo itself is often seen as aestheticist and anti-political, some poets and essayists, Martí among them but also the Peruvians Manuel González Prada and José Carlos Mariátegui, introduced compelling critiques of the contemporary social order and particularly the plight of Latin America's indigenous peoples. So the early twentieth century also saw the rise of indigenismo, a movement dedicated to representing indigenous culture and the injustices that such communities were undergoing, as for instance with the Peruvian José María Arguedas and the Mexican Rosario Castellanos.
The Argentine Jorge Luis Borges invented what was almost a new genre, the philosophical short story, and would go on to become one of the most influential of all Latin American writers. At the same time, Roberto Arlt offered a very different style, closer to mass culture and popular literature, reflecting the urbanization and European immigration that was shaping the Southern Cone.
The Venezuelan Romulo Gallegos wrote in 1929 what came to be one of the most well known Latin American novels in the twentieth century, Doña Barbara. Doña Barbara is a realist novel describing the conflict between civilization and barbarism in the plainlands of South America, and is a masterpiece of criollismo. The novel became an immediate hit, being translated into over forty languages.
Notable figures in Brazil at this time include the exceptional novelist and short story writer Machado de Assis, whose both ironic view and deep psychological analysis introduced a universal scope in Brazilian prose, the modernist poets Mário de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade (whose "Manifesto Antropófago" praised Brazilian powers of transculturation), and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
In the 1920s Mexico, the Stridentism and los Contemporáneos represented the influx of avant-garde movements, while the Mexican Revolution inspired novels such as Mariano Azuela's Los de abajo, a committed work of social realism and the revolution and its aftermath would continue to be a point of reference for Mexican literature for many decades. In the 1940s, the Cuban novelist and musicologist Alejo Carpentier coined the term "lo real maravilloso" and, along with the Mexican Juan Rulfo and the Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias, would prove a precursor of the Boom and its signature style of "magic realism".
Twentieth-century poetry in Latin America has often expressed love and political commitment, particularly given the model provided by Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, and followed by such poets as the Nicaraguan Ernesto Cardenal and Salvadoran Roque Dalton.
Other significant poets include the Cuban Nicolás Guillén, the Chilean Gonzalo Rojas, and the Uruguayan Mario Benedetti, not to mention the Nobel laureates Gabriela Mistral and Octavio Paz, the latter also a distinguished critic and essayist, famous particularly for his book on Mexican culture, The Labyrinth of Solitude.
In Chile, Braulio Arenas and others founded in 1938 the Mandrágora group, strongly influenced by Surrealism as well as by Vicente Huidobro's Creacionismo. However, this group of poets was overshadowed by Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral.
After World War II, Latin America enjoyed increasing economic prosperity, and a new-found confidence also gave rise to a literary boom. From 1960 to 1967, the major works of the boom were published. Many of these novels were somewhat rebellious from the general point of view of Latin America culture. Authors crossed traditional boundaries, experimented with language, and often mixed different styles of writing in their works.
Structures of literary works were also changing. Boom writers ventured outside traditional narrative structures, embracing non-linearity and experimental narration. The figure of Jorge Luis Borges, though not a Boom author per se, was extremely influential for the Boom generation. Latin American authors were inspired by North American and European authors such as William Faulkner, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf as well as each other's works; many of the authors knew one another and influenced their styles.
The Boom really put Latin American literature on the global map. It was distinguished by daring and experimental novels such as Julio Cortázar's Rayuela (1963), that were frequently published in Spain and quickly translated into English. From 1966 to 1968, Emir Rodríguez Monegal published his influential Latin American literature monthly Mundo Nuevo, with excerpts of unreleased novels from then-new writers such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante or Severo Sarduy, including two chapters of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad in 1966. In 1967, the published book was the Boom's defining novel, which led to the association of Latin American literature with magic realism, though other important writers of the period such as Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes do not fit so easily within this framework. Arguably, the Boom's culmination was Augusto Roa Bastos's monumental Yo, el supremo (1974). Other important novelists of the period include the Chilean José Donoso, the Guatemalan Augusto Monterroso and the Cuban Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Though the literary boom occurred while Latin America was having commercial success, the works of this period tended to move away from the positives of the modernization that was underway. Boom works tended not to focus on social and local issues, but rather on universal and at times metaphysical themes.
Political turmoil in Latin American countries such as Cuba at this time influenced the literary boom as well. Some works anticipated an end to the prosperity that was occurring, and even predicted old problems would resurface in the near future. Their works foreshadowed the events to come in the future of Latin America, with the 1970s and 1980s dictatorships, economic turmoil, and Dirty Wars.
Post-Boom literature is sometimes characterized by a tendency towards irony and towards the use of popular genres, as in the case of the work of Manuel Puig. Some writers felt the success of the Boom to be a burden, and spiritedly denounced the caricature that reduces Latin American literature to magical realism. Hence the Chilean Alberto Fuguet came up with McOndo as an antidote to the Macondo-ism that demanded of all aspiring writers that they set their tales in steamy tropical jungles in which the fantastic and the real happily coexisted. In a mock diary by post-modernist Giannina Braschi the Narrator of the Latin American Boom is shot by a Macy's make-up artist who accuses the Boom of capitalizing on her solitude. [3] Other writers, however, have traded on the Boom's success: see for instance Laura Esquivel's pastiche of magical realism in Como agua para chocolate.
The Spanish language author who has had most impact on world literature has been Roberto Bolaño.[1] Overall, contemporary literature in the region is vibrant and varied, ranging from the best-selling Paulo Coelho and Isabel Allende to the more avant-garde and critically acclaimed work of writers such as Diamela Eltit, Giannina Braschi, Luisa Valenzuela, Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Ampuero, Jorge Marchant Lazcano, Alicia Yánez, Jaime Marchán, Jaime Bayly, Manfredo Kempff, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Gioconda Belli, Jorge Franco, Víctor Montoya or Mario Mendoza. Other important figures include the Argentine César Aira or the Colombian Fernando Vallejo, whose La virgen de los sicarios depicted the violence in a Medellín under the influence of the drug trade.
There has also been considerable attention paid to the genre of testimonio, texts produced in collaboration with subaltern subjects such as Rigoberta Menchú.
Finally, a new breed of chroniclers is represented by the more journalistic Carlos Monsiváis and Pedro Lemebel, who draw also on the long-standing tradition of essayistic production as well as the precedents of engaged and creative non-fiction represented by, say, the Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano and the Mexican Elena Poniatowska.
According to literary critic Harold Bloom, the most eminent Latin American author of any century is the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges. In his controversial 1994 book The Western Canon, Bloom says: "Of all Latin American authors in this century, he is the most universal... If you read Borges frequently and closely, you become something of a Borgesian, because to read him is to activate an awareness of literature in which he has gone farther than anybody else." [2]
Among the novelists, perhaps the most prominent author to emerge from Latin America in the 20th century is Gabriel García Márquez. His book Cien Años de Soledad (1967), is one of the most important works in world literature of the 20th century. Borges opined that it was "the Don Quixote of Latin America." [3]
Among the greatest poets of the 20th century is Pablo Neruda; according to Gabriel García Márquez, Neruda "is the greatest poet of the 20th century, in any language." [4]
Mexican writer and poet Octavio Paz is unique among Latin American writers in having won both the Nobel Prize, the Neustadt Prize, and the Cervantes Prize. Paz has also been a recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, as well as an honorary doctorate from Harvard.
The most important literary prize of the Spanish language is widely considered to be the Cervantes Prize of Spain. Latin American authors who have won this prestigious award include: José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico), Juan Gelman (Argentina), Nicanor Parra (Chile), Sergio Pitol (Mexico), Gonzalo Rojas (Chile), Álvaro Mutis (Colombia), Jorge Edwards (Chile), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Cuba), Mario Vargas Llosa (Perú), Dulce María Loynaz (Cuba), Adolfo Bioy Casares (Argentina), Augusto Roa Bastos (Paraguay), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Ernesto Sabato (Argentina), Octavio Paz (Mexico), Juan Carlos Onetti (Uruguay), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) and Alejo Carpentier (Cuba).
Latin American authors who have won the most prestigious literary award in the world, the Nobel Prize for Literature, include: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru, 2010), Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1982), Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971), Miguel Ángel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967), and Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945).
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature, perhaps the most important international literary award after the Nobel Prize, counts several Latin American authors among its recipients; they include: Claribel Alegría (Nicaragua), Álvaro Mutis (Colombia), João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil), Octavio Paz (Mexico), and Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia). Candidates for the prize include: Ricardo Piglia (Argentina), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Marjorie Agosin (Chile), Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay), Homero Aridjis (Mexico), Luis Fernando Verissimo (Brazil), Augusto Monterroso (Guatemala), Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina), Jorge Amado (Brazil), Ernesto Sábato (Argentina), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazil), and Pablo Neruda (Chile).
Another important international literary award is the Jerusalem Prize; its recipients include: Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Ernesto Sabato (Argentina), Octavio Paz (Mexico), and Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina).
Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
Brazilian authors who have won the Camões Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Portuguese language, include: João Cabral de Melo Neto, Rachel de Queiroz, Jorge Amado, Antonio Candido, Autran Dourado, Rubem Fonseca, Lygia Fagundes Telles, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, and Ferreira Gullar. Some notable authors who have won Brazil's Prêmio Machado de Assis include: Rachel de Queiroz, Cecília Meireles, João Guimarães Rosa, Érico Veríssimo, Lúcio Cardoso, and Ferreira Gullar.
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Last year I created an annual report to help me reflect on the year and determine what it is that I need to keep the same, change, eliminate, or get counselling from to recover. I found it a really helpful process so I'm going to try and make it an annual event even though I'm a little late with it this year.
1 What are your biggest accomplishments this year?
Last year I've achieved quite a few things that I wanted to, plus a few nice surprises.
- I was nominated for an NUS teaching award by one of my students, this means an awful lot to me as it shows I'm appreciated and genuinely making a difference. Plus I got a mug and some free food!
- I won the Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award.
- I passed my interim assessment on my PhD, although I'm still not sure how.
- We moved into our new family home and got ourselves established after a much harder build than we expected.
- I turned 40... quite a few of my friends I grew up with never made it this far. I feel blessed.
2 What are the biggest lessons you've learned this year?
I'm a dreadful communicator. I can sing, dance, argue the point about the most complex of subjects, but I'm rubbish at talking about how I'm feeling, particularly if I'm feeling negative, tired, upset, or worried. I've plenty of friends who'd let me bash their ears if needed, but I choose not to, I bottle it up, burn out, creak along until I fall over.
I've been surrounded a lot by serious illness this year, from close family, friends, work colleagues, students... and I've got to admit it's been pretty scary. There's been times where I've genuinely feared for those I hold dearest and panicked that there's about to be a big hole in my life, I need to let these people know more often how much they mean to me, I've learned that life is fragile and precious.
3 With a grade, how satisfied are you with how you spent the year? Why?
I'd struggle to give this a universal grade. I'm made up with the new house, it's given us a lot of space and we can have friends round for parties and food which has helped us strengthen relationships with friends and have visitors stay for catch ups, this has really contributed to life quality in a positive way. The glass is definitely half full...
As always there are parts of work I love, parts I'd prefer to have surgically removed, but I attended graduation for the first time last year and I really enjoyed seeing my students graduate, which bearing in mind I didn't want to go to my own graduation is quite something. It was also nice that we went for a few beers with our students afterwards and I think they liked seeing that we're human too... we think a lot of our students, but sometimes feel we have to maintain a bit of distance. I'm not sure we've got the balance always right.
I think on the whole I'd give the year a B, because I need to gain more balance between home and work and find some collaborators for my research to work with, but on the whole I'm satisfied.
4 What do you want to accomplish next year, such that it's your best year ever?
- I want to learn to relax.
- I want to make progress on my PhD and I want to build a team around my research.
- I want to survive my chairmanship with the IStructE in one piece.
- I want to be more anarchic and chaotic in my thinking and behaviour, I want to challenge convention.
- I want to surround myself with more brilliant people, to collaborate, contribute, relish....
- I want to grow.
5 What new habits to cultivate that will help you to achieve your goals in Q4?
I hope to identify better places to work, either through sharing an office space with someone, getting a study buddy to work with or perhaps just working from home more often with a colleague/friend. I really want to immerse myself in research the coming year, but would work better if I had someone to immerse myself with in the topic.
I intend to chill out a little more, I work far too many hours on too many different roles this sometimes results in me spreading myself too thinly. More concerts, more beer, more silliness, more doing nothing from time to time...
Once my chairmanship is up with the IStructE I am seriously considering walking away from several positions to free up time. I've learned enough about roles to support/coach/mentor future graduates and I've no intention of pushing for a senior position. I would like to become a Fellow of the Royal Society or the Royal Academy of Engineering, but I can't see that happening as I'm not linked to either institution and you're nominated for membership.
I will be more anarchic, I'm intending that this will be my last full calendar year as an academic (I plan to leave in 18 months time) and so before I leave I will challenge the system and try and leave a positive mark. However, if I build a good research team around me with PhD students I genuinely could see me extending my timescale, or sharing myself between academia and an industrial role. I will try my hardest to not become a passenger, I will be different, I will make a difference...
6 What are your immediate next steps to achieve these goals?
I will make more time to spend time with the family, this year we started playing board games with the kids and going out for walks. I just need to try and protect more time to head out with my wife.
Last year I said I'd start growing plants and baking with the kids.... the baking part took off and I learned a few basic recipes and even taught my daughter how to use the electric whisk. I need to do more of this.
I will grow, with purpose, focus, and a mohawk...


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A Freebie for Auditing Your Web Application for SQL flaws
I ran across a mention of this tool in a SANS newsbite.
Scrawl latest version requires information
Scrawlr, developed by the HP Web Security Research Group in coordination with the MSRC, is short for SQL Injector and Crawler. Scrawlr will crawl a website while simultaneously analyzing the parameters of each individual web page for SQL Injection vulnerabilities. Scrawlr is lightning fast and uses our intelligent engine technology to dynamically craft SQL Injection attacks on the fly. It can even provide proof positive results by displaying the type of backend database in use and a list of available table names.
You can also access the 1.0 version at Softpedia if you are reluctant to give HP more marketing fodder. Softpedia does check it's offered downloads for malware, which I always appreciate.
Given that SQL injection is the most common form of data breach, it might be worthwhile to try it, if your website has less than 1500 pages.


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- 2.4. Data used for APNIC measurements and Ad serving
- 2.5. Data used for recruitment
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- 4. Data sharing and transfer
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- 6. Complaints
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Personal information means information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:
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APNIC works to ensure that all information it holds is accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
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The APNIC Secretariat collects organizational and personal information, including banking details, for billing and account administration purposes.
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By far the most popular Cambodian religion is Buddhism. Though it's Islam that dominates in Southeast Asia overall, it's Buddhism that dominates in the mainland area of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
No more than 5% of the population of Cambodia practice a religion other than Buddhism. What are the historical reasons for this, how does it affect Cambodia today, and what's life like for the many Buddhist monks in Cambodia?
Cambodian Religion
Theravada Buddhism is the prevailing official religion in Cambodia and approximately ninety percent of the population is Buddhist. Islam, Hinduism and Christianity are also embraced in Cambodia.
Since Buddha statues and images represent the revered Buddha, visitors are asked to treat all such statues and images with respect, so as not to offend local people.
In Cambodia, regardless of religion, the country maintains a harmonised state.


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In today's episode of HubSpot To Go we discuss:
- Recent changes made by Twitter to the "Quote Tweet" functionality
- What this means for your measuring of social engagement
- How to set up Social Inbox to pick up social shares of links to your website and quoted tweets.
Thanks to Sophie Morris for raising the issue in the comments for an episode of Content To Go.
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The truth that many collectible model cars are crafted today is one thing that actually can not be overlooked, and that's most likely among the primary explanations why increasing numbers of people are flocking for their local an internet-based shops to be able to purchase model cars to increase their collections. A short search on the internet provides you with specifics of a variety of companies specializing in making top quality collectible model cars, and searching at pictures will frequently leave one out of awe over how superbly and precisely a number of these models are crafted.
Autoart is among the companies that are experts in manufacturing top quality collectible model cars, and they've gain popularity as their brand has been known for good quality within the collectible model vehicle market. Autoart models come in many different makes, meaning regardless of what type of model vehicle someone may be searching for, there's most likely an Autoart form of it. Regardless if you are searching for any scale type of an costly European sports vehicle, or perhaps a scale type of a military vehicle, Autoart likely has the kind of vehicle that you're searching for. Due to the top quality that these specific model cars are crafted, Autoart is among the brands that's been reliable within the collectible model vehicle community for a long time now.
It must be noted, obviously, this is among many brands of collectible model cars which are in the marketplace, so the savvy model vehicle collector will probably educate themselves about all the various brands that are offered for them to be able to make certain they purchase the right one on their behalf. Because model cars are frequently highly collectible and there can be certain mixers are restricted editions, many people have discovered that collecting model cars may be a good investment later on. That, obviously, is based mostly on what types of model cars you'll be able to find, and thus new collectors ought to investigate to be able to uncover which model cars are likely to achieve value as time pass.
Regardless if you are searching into purchasing Autoart models or other brand, that is certainly correct that there's a constantly-growing marketplace for collectible model cars. Whether you've been building your collection for a long time or else you are searching to buy your initial model vehicle, you should recognize that you're entering a collectible market that's certainly growing and will probably expand within the a long time. Autoart is among many respected big brands within the collectible model cars industry.


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Gold Edition for TAL-U-NO-LX
Having a long relationship with vintage hardware synthesizers, the Juno 60 was one of the favorites.
Originally released in the early 80s, stood out for its ability to create some gorgeous Pads, deep Bass and classic Arps.
Used by many artist for its rich sound including: Air, Enya, The Cure, Howard Jones, it still stands out as a great sounding instrument.
TAL-U-NO-LX is a faithful recreation of the original sounding hardware, a softsynth we have been designing presets for for some time.
Gold Edition is our sixth soundset for TAL-U-NO-LX.
The Gold Edition, like the Juno 60, is all about vintage synthesis.
We wanted to make a classic collection of vintage sounds seldom heard these days with soft synths.
We focused on a broad range of vintage sounds (120+) with a strong focus on analog pads (41).


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Sheet extrusion is subject to rising energy and material costs. The new high-speed technologies allow faster production with higher outputs – but this must be achieved without compromising on product quality. This is why, in addition to its extruders for sheet extrusion, battenfeld-cincinnati offers roll stacks which are able to meet these high standards.
Roll stacks are required to provide even cooling and to simultaneously keep the sheet tolerances low. This saves material and ensures fast processing without delays in thermoforming equipment further down the line. battenfeld-cincinnati offers both inline and offline roll stacks, as well as the Multi-Touch roll stack for high-speed extrusion.
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People suffering from depression aren't alone. In fact, depression is one of the most common mental health issues in the United States today, with nearly 15.7 million American adults suffering from these feelings of persistent sadness and irritability. More than 300 million people experience depression worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Untreated, depression can become a chronic debilitating disease, leading to anxiety disorders, eating disorders, substance abuse issues, heart disease, and even suicide.
We see patients who suffer from severe depression and have exhausted nearly all conventional treatments including oral medications, psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, and electroconvulsive therapy.
Fortunately, there's new hope for healing severe depression and improving lives—and it's called ketamine infusion therapy. Ketamine is an anesthetic medication that, in traditional doses, has been used for more than 50 years to sedate adults and children in emergency and operating rooms.
In recent years, ketamine has emerged as a very safe, rapidly-acting, and effective alternative for treatment-resistant depression. In fact, ketamine has been touted as one of the most significant advancements in treating certain treatment-resistant chronic diseases including:
- Depression (including postpartum depression)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Bipolar disorder (manic with refractory depression)
- Fibromyalgia
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), also called reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD)
- Neuropathic pain
- Migraine headaches/Persistent daily headaches
How ketamine infusion therapy works
Simply put, ketamine improves and rebuilds synaptic connections in the brain. Traditional oral antidepressants can take weeks or even months to reach therapeutic levels, and only half of all patients get relief from their symptoms.
As a NMDA receptor antagonist, ketamine has a positive effect on the neurotransmitter glutamate. Emerging evidence has linked depression with dysfunction in this neurotransmitter. Research has shown that subanesthetic doses of ketamine not only produces a rapid and robust antidepressant effect where it can lift depression in many patients within hours, but it also can put a quick end to suicidal thinking.
Ketamine is a very safe drug with few side effects. As anesthesiologists, we regularly administer this medication and are specifically trained to monitor and respond to its effects. With low doses of ketamine, side effects can include feelings of euphoria, confusion, dizziness, drowsiness, fuzzy vision, and nausea. These side effects clear up quickly, within approximately 10-15 minutes after completion of the infusion. There are no long-term reported side effects with ketamine infusions.
The majority of the patients see some mood elevation and symptomatic relief between the first and second infusion. If the infusions are effective, a series of four additional infusions are scheduled over the following 10 days. After that, maintenance "booster" infusions may be scheduled weeks/months later to maintain a positive response.
Each patient is unique, so the dosage, frequency, and total length of treatment can vary and is customized to maximize the most effective sustained response.
Research shows it is changing lives for the better
A recent study, which was published May 3rd in Scientific Reports, reinforces ketamine's reputation as an effective antidepressant both as a monotherapy and adjunctive therapy. Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego mined the FDA Adverse Effect Reporting System (FAERS) database for depression symptoms in patients taking ketamine for pain. They found that depression was reported half as often among the more than 41,000 patients who took ketamine, compared to patients who took any other drug or drug combination for pain. The team found that the incidence of symptoms of depression in patients who took ketamine in addition to other pain therapies dropped by 50% compared to patients who took any other drug or drug combination for pain.
We're seeing similar positive outcomes with our patients with 7 out of 10 patients reporting a positive response. In the past six months, we've administered more than 200 infusions to patients who were referred to our clinic after having exhausted all other treatment options including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), psychotherapy, and multiple oral drug therapies. The ketamine infusions, coupled with our team of caregivers working in close coordination with the patient's current care team, have proven to be truly remarkable in providing effective relief.
As an example, one of our patients thought about suicide more than 1,000 times per day, and, after the second infusion, her suicidal thoughts nearly completely disappeared. It stayed that way for almost three months before she chose to return for a single maintenance "booster" infusion.
Setting the record straight
There are some controversies surrounding the use of ketamine, which has been known to have a reputation as an illicit party drug (with a street name of "K" or "Special K") due to its hallucinogenic effects at high doses.
Like many drugs, if abused and misused, there can be harmful side effects with the potential to overdose. But current studies do not demonstrate an addictive potential for ketamine infusion therapy.
We mitigate the risk of abuse by limiting access to the infusions and instead of sending patients home with oral medications, our trained health care providers are providing ketamine in a medically supervised clinical environment. This approach greatly minimizes the potential for addiction and misuse.
There is an additional concern with using ketamine infusion therapy because although the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has only approved this medication for anesthetic purposes, it has not yet been approved for its use in treating chronic conditions such as depression. It is said that ketamine has never been tested for its safety and effectiveness in treating depression in a large-scale clinical trial due to financial reasons and the ethical controversy surrounding the misuse of it.
If more research can continue in this field, including large-scale clinical trials, ketamine infusion therapy may transform the way the public and other medical professionals think about treating depression, and it could open the door to even more effective forms of treatment.
Find the right, multi-faceted treatment
Not all people who suffer from the chronic diseases we've mentioned will respond to ketamine infusion therapy, and even those who are responders from this therapy may require a multi-faceted approach for a comprehensive treatment plan.
Ketamine infusion therapy may not be a "silver bullet" treatment to heal depression. As caregivers, we need to address all aspects of a person's disease, including social, environmental, biological, and psychological considerations. However, for some patients, ketamine infusion can be the long-awaited solution to return to a good quality of life.
Those who have one of the chronic diseases mentioned, and feel they've exhausted all treatment options, should talk to their primary care provider about whether ketamine infusion therapy may be the next step in their care.


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BLOG » In Case You MISSED This Wednesday's "BOYCRAZY RADIO"…
One Response to "In Case You MISSED This Wednesday's "BOYCRAZY RADIO"…"
ALEXI- I think celebrities are attainable. My crush (see subject) has a wife I don't not think he might divorce one day. From what I know of him (enough… he gets personal about his life) he is simply just imperfect and does become an embarrassment, but there's something about how I receive him through the media that catches my actual heart. If I still have your attention, know I am serious about my feeling for him- this is so general but what's the first thing I should say to this guy on his Twitter or podcast page that might get him to take some time? I know he looks into them a lot and often responds to people. It's crazy but I have spent a long time wishing he'd know that I, too, am alive in this world. Do you relate at all?


text: Victor Ortiz says he's ready to take on Floyd Mayweather. In this EsNewsreporting video, Ortiz tells us he will knockout Mayweather. Danny Garcia, Ortiz's trainer, says "I think we're going to knock him out." Ortiz said "whatever my coach said, that's exactly what I'm going to do. There's not a whole lot to say." Ortiz also added, "Just watch me September 17th, I'm going to drop him. His career is over." When asked "41 tried by 41 failed," Ortiz responded "41 were not me." He also said "I love people who bark. But I don't bark, I bite."


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Even the most dedicated closed-car enthusiast knows that a convertible top can excuse a multitude of automotive sins. On the other hand, it may also bring along a few new ones, both of commission and of omission. With this in mind—and with glorious top-down weather all around us—we've pooled our collective automotive experience here at R&T to identify the best convertibles for the enthusiast.
Starting with more than 50 convertible offerings available in the U.S., we pondered personal databases, examined road tests and narrowed the selection to our closer scrutiny of a pair in each of five price categories. We set these breaks of list price utterly without guile at $25,000, $50,000, $75,000 and $100,000.
Our initial discussions and balloting resulted in five fascinating faceoffs, some apples-to-apples and others decidedly apples-to-oranges. Our best-buy convertibles for less than $25,000 are the and Toyota MR2 Spyder. The and are the pick of the $25,000–$50,000 range. For $50,000–$75,000, the and rise to the top. Between $75,000 and $100,000, the and Porsche Carrera Cabriolet are superlative. Last, the BMW Z8 Roadster and Ferrari 360 Spider are exemplary of that lofty range beyond $100,000.
But which are singularly best? Which car merits a Road & Track recommendation as the best-buy convertible for its price? For this, we put our five pairings through back-to-back evaluations prior to the final balloting. Here are our selections, together with comments gleaned from our evaluation process.


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We're Going To Paris!!
Tom Fowler, Inc.'s work is going to Paris, France! The Annual International Poster Salon – World's Most Memorable Poster Competition, 2001, sponsored by UNESCO, Paris, France, has selected "Verdi's La Forza Del Destino" to be included in this prestigious event. This poster was created for – you guessed it – the Connecticut Grand Opera & Orchestra by Tom Fowler, Inc. The international jury's comments – "Bold, symbolic and powerful invitation to the opera". The winning posters will be on exhibit in Paris and on tour in over 11 countries throughout the year.


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What? God let you down?
Some of you just got so uptight. Performing intellectual cartwheels through all of your theological platitudes.
"Why dear brother, God can never let us down." "God's ways are simply not our ways." "We must never question God." "Just keep believing." "God always answers prayer." Miracles are just around the corner, etc., etc."
Well done. You've memorized some good Biblical principles. Line upon line they have been written upon the tablets of your human spirit. And for the record, I agree. 27 "…Everything is possible with God." (Mark 10:27b)
But tell me, what happens when you meet someone who says,
"I love God. I go to church and I practice tithing. I talk to the Lord regularly about the things that weigh heavy on me. In my prayers, I ask… I seek… I knock. Then I wait and wait and wait some more. In the end, God remains silent. He takes no action that I can see. Instead, the awful often happens. I am hurt and angry. I don't understand why he chooses not do things that seem so clearly right to me. Why doesn't God keep His word like the preacher said He would? What happened to all those exceeding great and precious promises that I read about in His book?" I'm confused and empty inside. God has let me down.
This person is clearly dejected. And there are many more just like him.
"Why did I pray so intently for a healing… and that person died?"
"Why did I ask God for a child for twenty years… but I never conceived?"
"Why didn't the Lord help me raise the money to save my home?
"If God is so good, why is His world so miserable and unhappy?"
There are no easy answers for these questions. But this is certainly not the time to start quoting all of those well-ordered one liners from the promise box.
The raw concerns of real life are painful to confront. It's easier to carry the burden of pretending everything is going to be just fine. So we tell ourselves, "God is going to make all this crummy stuff disappear one day soon and everything will be much better".
What happens when "someday soon" never seems to come?
Hiding your hurt, anger, and disappointment behind facades of God-speak and mechanical Christianity is poison to the soul. Your spirit slowly fills with a contagion that destroys your faith in God.
If perception is your reality, then I might as well just say it; from where some of you sit right now, it sure appears that God has let you down.
But here is what I believe; it's your expectations that have been dashed upon the rocks of disappointment. And now, it's hard to navigate the waves of this life with a faith that has run aground.
Inadvertently, we absorbed many erroneous and unconfirmed "facts" about God in the course of a lifetime. We read books about what He has promised to do for us when we pray. All of the sermons, seminars and a million casual conversations have molded our interpretation of what we can expect from Him. Some of these expectations are spot-on. Some are not. The trouble begins when things don't go the way we expect. We begin to feel deceived. And over time, our faith grows weaker.
Unfulfilled expectations are worse than low expectations. It is okay if you sometimes feel like God has grown silent and even turned away. In reality, He has not. I know this because He plainly said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5).
But that is not how you feel right now.
Take a deep breath. Cry if it helps. But please, do me this favor, listen carefully as I retell some important spiritual realities.
- Prayer isn't an extraordinary process for getting things to go your way.
- Prayer isn't a guarantee of satisfaction.
- Pain and struggle cannot be removed with simple requests.
- As a rule, God doesn't wave supernatural wands and instantly change things.
- God exists outside of our time dimension and, because we are chained to the ticking of the clock, He will often seem to move agonizingly slow.
- Life isn't fair and you cannot change that.
Welcome to the Ragamuffins. We are the waifs and strays who follow that marvelous incarnate man from heaven who once visited this planet by way of the Galilee. Daily we struggle to "work out the salvation that God has given us with a proper sense of awe and responsibility" (Philippians 2:12). As one among us, it will always be safe for you to share your individual fears, disappointments and pressing concerns. We will laugh and cry with you as we patiently await His return. And I promise you, one day all will be understood.
© 2014 by Joseph A Cerreta, all rights reserved. Joseph A. Cerreta, PhD is an author, broadcaster, popular Bible teacher, and the founding Pastor of Living Faith Christian Fellowship in Holiday, Florida.


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If You're In Santa Barbara This Weekend
Korina from our color department sends word that the Naples Coalition (who she volunteers her time for) is hosting a beach walk this Saturday, March 3rd along the stretch of coast they're trying to save from development. The walk leaves promptly at 1pm from the public access parking lot at Haskell's Beach. If you're interested in helping this non-profit environmental coalition, they have some beautiful pendants for sale and all the proceeds benefit the group's efforts.
Details and directions to Saturday's beach walk
Take Action – Help Save Naples
Update: Santa Barbara locals should also consider attending their Cash for Coast benefit concert (on the following Saturday, March 10) featuring Zach Gill of Animal Liberation Orchestra. Details here
[Photo courtesy of the Naples Coalition]


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Ireland stormed ever closer to a NatWest 6 Nations title showdown with England by dismissing Wales 37-27 in Dublin.
Jacob Stockdale bagged a brace, with Bundee Aki, Dan Leavy and Cian Healy all crossing too as Ireland racked up a bonus-point victory to stun Warren Gatland's Wales.
Visiting scrum-half Gareth Davies had vowed Wales would chase a bonus-point win of their own in Ireland in the build-up - but Ireland made a mockery of that prediction with a consummate, if nerve-jangling - triumph.
Peerless scrum-half Conor Murray's sterling service greased the gears on Ireland's smooth operation, with Joe Schmidt's men even shrugging off Johnny Sexton unusually missing 10 points with the boot.
Despite dominating for large swathes, Ireland only ended up winning the day thanks to Murray's late penalty goal and a last-gasp intercept score for Stockdale.
Head coach Schmidt's Ireland men face England at Twickenham on March 17 in a tournament-closing encounter. On this evidence, Irish hopes will warm towards a potential St Patrick's Day victory to treasure.
Eddie Jones' England will doubtless prove a different proposition, but all that now stands between Ireland and that final-weekend showdown is the Scotland clash in Dublin on March 10.
Half-back Davies, Aaron Shingler and Steff Evans grabbed tries for Wales, but the visitors were outmuscled and outclassed, eventually.
Dan Leavy, Keith Earls and Chris Farrell all shone brightly as Ireland coped manfully without key injured trio Tadhg Furlong, Iain Henderson and Robbie Henshaw.
Not even Sexton's off-kilter day from the tee, possibly down to his stiff back, could derail Ireland's potent performance at the Aviva Stadium.
The scoreline failed to reflect Ireland's supremacy, with the hosts unable to capitalise on mountains of territory and possession.


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- Arecibo Observatory update after recent earthquakes09 Jan, 2020
- The Arecibo Observatory Congratulates Dr. Martha P. Haynes, Recipient of 2019 Bruce Gold Medal11 Dec, 2019
- Colloquium Series Recap11 Dec, 2019
- In Memoriam: Yervant Terzian, 1939 - 201906 Dec, 2019
- AO Observations of a Binary Pulsar Test the Theory of General Relativity in New Science Publication06 Dec, 2019
- The International Pulsar Timing Array: Second data release06 Dec, 2019
- Modeling Radar Albedos of Laboratory-Characterized Particles: Application to the Lunar Surface06 Dec, 2019
- Culebra Aerosol Research Lidar (CARLA) Project Selected for Funding04 Dec, 2019
- Arecibo Observatory to Offer New Opportunities for Visiting Scientists14 Nov, 2019
- Arecibo Observatory Open House at the 235th AAS meeting28 Oct, 2019
- UCF to Enhance Arecibo Observatory's Computing Power Using Microsoft Azure17 Oct, 2019
- Arecibo Observatory Gets $19 Million NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids29 Sep, 2019
- National Science Foundation Awards Arecibo Observatory $12.3 Million Grant29 Sep, 2019
- El Observatorio de Arecibo celebra el regreso a clases con nuevas exhibiciones 30 Aug, 2019
- Asteroid Arrives Early for Puerto Rico's Asteroid Day Celebrations28 Jun, 2019
- Our Telescope Operations Manager was recently awarded with the Yasme Excellence Award.19 Jun, 2019
First Asteroid Detection since Hurricane Maria
Byadmin04 January 2018 Planetary
Planetary December 12, 2017
Technical Contact
NASA-funded Arecibo Planetary Radar system was tested for the first time since hurricane Maria with a successful detection of near-Earth asteroid 2007 AG. This object at its closest approach to Earth will be some 0.059 AU and is estimated to be 300 meters in diameter
The Planetary Radar Science group is a department of the Arecibo Observatory, which is an NSF facility operated under cooperative agreement by SRI International, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), and la Universidad Metropolitana (UMET). The Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar program is fully funded through grants to USRA from NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations program (Grants NNX12AF24G and NNX13AQ46G). The Planetary Radar Science group is also partnered with the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration node (USRA-Lunar and Planetary Institute/NASA-Johnson Space Center) of the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute program.
More information about the Arecibo Observatory - Planetary Radar Science Group can be found at http://www.AreciboObservatory.org/planetary
Technical Contact
Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín
Universities Space Research Association


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Recently Perspectivity renewed its contact with Hubert Hermans, a retired Psychology Professor, who was a keynote speaker at a Network Event in the early days of Perspectivity. Hermans invited Perspectivity to present at the 8th international Conference on the Dialogical Self in The Hague, which will take place on August 19-22.
Charlotte Keijzer and Michiel Damoiseaux made proposals for two workshops, called "The Perspectivity Game and the practitioners field of Dialogic Systems" and "An alternative approach of conflict resolution: a practical way to multi-positionality". Both proposals have been approved.
Read more in the conference flyer (PDF) with the possibility of early bird registration.


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How to submit new Locale Data
To be able to fully support a new language or locale or an already existing but not yet fully supported language/country combination as a locale, including number formats and calendar data, and having it selectable as default document language, OOo needs a locale data file.
Locale data files can quite easily be generated with the generator available at http://www.it46.se/localegen/
For technical details and semantics of elements please see the generator's documentation and the comments in the locale data DTD file and as a sample locale data file for example the en_US locale
Note that several locale data elements may be inherited from another locale's data by means of the ref="..." attribute if they share identical data, which may come handy if locales are to be created for the same language but different countries that differ only in a few elements such as currency symbols. This would have to be done manually though. Doing so also reduces the memory footprint needed during runtime when the data libraries are loaded.
If you want to create and contribute a locale data file for your locale, you can either
- Create the locale data file using the generator, login to the OOo website and then submit a new issue using this URL, where you say that it is available. We would then contact Alberto, whom you granted the right to contribute your data, see http://www.it46.se/localegen/copyright.php
- Or create the locale data file, login to the OOo website and then submit a new issue using this URL, and attach the generated file to that issue.
Please note that to integrate code or data contributed we need a signed Sun Contributor Agreement form (SCA) filled-out.
This would be the preferred way if you plan to do other contributions that would need a signed SCA as well.


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Help, I'm an IT grad, how do I get an IT job? Part 1 of 3
Candidate | 03 August 2017
A boutique IT recruitment agency based in Australia, selecting, tracking and nurturing IT talent for IT companies and forward thinking IT Departments.
Candidate | 03 August 2017
That's the common question I get asked almost every day when speaking to graduates venturing into roles in IT. And it's difficult because every job wants someone who has experience and when you're a grad, well that's kind of difficult, because that's the whole point of you being a grad - you don't have on the job experience.
So, how do you get around this problem?
I think fundamentally there are 3 key ways.
Emphasize the skills you have gained in the course that you have done.
This is important. I am not talking about you outlining the curriculum or detailing the material for the course that you did. That alone is not good enough. What you need to do is be articulate at outlining exactly what you did and what skills you learned as part of that course and how you implemented them.
So if you installed Windows 2012 from scratch, say that. Give us the correct product name and version number (Windows Server 2012) and even that it was part of a project that you completed, and what you accomplished by doing that. For example:
By outlining what you can do because of the course that you did helps to prove to an employer that you didn't just do a course and get a pass mark but you actually picked up skills that are transferrable to a commercial environment.
More to come in future instalments... stay tuned..
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It may not be immediately apparent how important it is to have a good bottle brush – until you try to clean bottles every day with a lousy one. Suddenly you realize that a brush that scrapes up your bottles, or loses bristles or sponge parts everywhere, or snaps when you put pressure on it, is not going to be acceptable.
Having tried other brushes, you'll immediately realize why the OXO Tot Bottle Brush with Nipple Cleaner & Stand is different. It has two types of flexible but sturdy bristles, which can do both gentle cleaning and tough scrubbing without marking up your bottles. The bristles bend without breaking, and spring back into shape after being squeezed into a tight space. And the flexible neck prevents the OXO Bottle Brush from snapping when you need to scrub hard.
Plus, the OXO Tot Bottle Brush comes with two extra features: a silicon nipple cleaner that lets you clean the hard-to-reach spots inside bottle nipples, sippy cup parts, breast pump parts, and other dishes, and a storage stand that lets you keep your Bottle Brush close at hand without getting the counter wet. When you're done with dishes, the brush stand has a pour spout, so you can dump out any water that collects, preventing mold from building up. Dishwasher safe, nonslip handle.
This takes up a lot of space and has very quickly lost it's shape. I also haven't gotten the nipple brush to even work.


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Red Sox minor league roundup: Rafael Devers unstoppable; Joseph Monge's huge day; Michael Chavis is officially a run-producer
A brief look at the action in the Red Sox farm system on Friday: PROGRAMMING NOTE: Sunday on WEEI's Down on the Farm, with Henry Owens and Sean Coyle set to play in the All-Star Futures Game, the scouts who signed the two players -- Tom Battista with Owens and Chris Calciano for Coyle -- will discuss the scouting process and reports that led the Sox to the duo. Tune in from 8:30-9 a.m., or check the extended interviews in the podcast at WEEI.com/podcast. TRIPLE-A PAWTUCKET RED SOX: 4-3 LOSS (11 INNINGS) AT TOLEDO (TIGERS) (BOX) -- Third baseman Will Middlebrooks went 1-for-5 with two strikeouts while playing nine innings. He has hits in seven of eight contests since resuming his rehab, hitting .259/.310/.481. -- Ryan Roberts went 1-for-2 with a homer (against a right-handed pitcher), but then had to exit the game after crashing into a wall while chasing a ball in left field. Roberts is hitting .290/.354/.447 with five homers and 23 extra-base hits in 58 games with the PawSox. -- Left-hander Chris Hernandez tossed six innings in which he allowed two runs (one earned) on four hits while walking two and striking out six. In 10 starts, Hernandez has a flat 3.00 ERA with 44 strikeouts and 21 walks while averaging just under six innings a start. DOUBLE-A PORTLAND SEA DOGS: 6-3 WIN VS. NEW HAMPSHIRE (BLUE JAYS) (BOX) -- Though he was tagged for a pair of runs on five hits over three innings, reliever Noe Ramirez earned his 10th save of the season. The righty had gone 13 straight innings (eight appearances) without allowing an earned run before Friday. Ramirez has been extremely solid for the Sea Dogs this season; he's yet to blow a save or take a loss, and he's posted a 1.96 ERA in 46 innings. He's not a high-strikeout guy, averaging less than one per inning, but the 24-year-old owns a WHIP of 1.034 (a number that sat below 1.000 prior to Friday night's outing) and is averaging 2.2 walks per nine innings. -- Sean Coyle just keeps on hitting, going 1-for-3 with a double. He was also hit by a pitch and came around to score twice. The second baseman had experienced a slight drop-off recently, going 0-for-10 over the span of three games, but since breaking out of the mini-slump, Coyle has clubbed two doubles in as many contests. He's maintained a outstanding .336/.412/.585 line on the season, coming up with 19 doubles, 11 home runs and a triple. Coyle finally has enough at-bats to qualify for the Eastern League leaderboards. He ranks third in average, third in OBP and first in slugging. -- Jeremy Kehrt, who had spent much of the year in Pawtucket before returning to Portland, made his first start of the season for the Sea Dogs, and it was a good one. The righty lasted six innings and allowed a single run on six hits and a walk. He also hit a batter, but fanned five. Kehrt has been solid in all three of his outings with Portland this season after compiling a 5.45 ERA in 33 innings between the PawSox' rotation and bullpen. -- Keury De La Cruz went 2-for-4 on the day with a couple of singles. Cruz has had no trouble putting the bat on the ball, hitting .292 on the season and .313 over his last 12 games, but true to his career pattern, the walks have seemed to elude him. He's managed just three in 34 games in Portland this season, and hasn't drawn a free pass since June 21, 16 games ago. De La Cruz also attempted his second stolen bag since being promoted, but he's yet to find success on the bases. HIGH-A SALEM RED SOX: 2-0 LOSS AT WILMINGTON (ROYALS) (BOX) -- Left-hander Corey Littrell navigated through five innings without allowing an earned run, scattering five hits, walking two and striking out three. The 22-year-old is amidst a strong stretch that has seen him deliver at least five innings in six straight starts with a 2.23 ERA, 10 walks and 26 walks in 36 2/3 innings. For the year, the 2013 fifth-rounder has a 3.77 ERA. -- Catcher Jordan Weems had his third straight multi-hit game, going 3-for-3 to account for all but one of Salem's hits. Weems, who has never hit above .204 in any of the parts of three seasons that he's spent in Single-A Greenville, is off to a .325/.386/.450 start in 12 games since his promotion from Greenville. SINGLE-A GREENVILLE DRIVE: 7-6 WIN VS. AUGUSTA (GIANTS) (BOX) -- Left-hander Trey Ball could not build upon his two straight strong starts, instead lasting four innings while matching a pair of season highs with six runs and four walks allowed. Among the four hits he allowed were a homer and double. For the year, the 2013 first-rounder has a 6.59 ERA with a 1-7 record. -- Carlos Asuaje went 2-for-4 with a double and walk, extending his hitting streak to eight games. In 11 games in July, Asuaje has nine extra-base hits with a .349/.388/.698 line. He's now hitting .313/.400/.557 for the season, leading the South Atlantic League in slugging. -- Left fielder Franklin Guzman, in his first game following a promotion from Lowell, went 2-for-3 with a double, two walks and a steal. The 22-year-old hit .241/.276/.407 in 15 games with the Spinners. SHORT-SEASON SINGLE-A LOWELL SPINNERS: 5-4 LOSS VS. STATEN ISLAND (YANKEES) (BOX) -- Making his second rehab start in a row, Shane Victorino played seven innings in right field and came up to bat three times, going 0-for-2 with a walk. He also committed an error in the field. The plan is for Victorino to gradually increase his time in the field, going from five innings of play on Thursday to seven on Friday. -- Nick Longhi lengthened his hitting streak to 13 games with a double and a walk on Friday. While it was Longhi's ninth double in 23 games, the walk was the rarer occurrence, with the outfielder drawing free passes in just five percent of plate appearances. Since June 25, the beginning of Longhi's streak, he's hit .392 with a .956 OPS. All five of his walks have come over the life of the streak as well. -- First baseman Sam Travis had a couple of hits on the evening, going 2-for-5 with a pair of singles and two runs batted in. Though Travis had a couple well-timed hits, he also went down swinging with the bases loaded to end the game. Travis also swiped his third bag of the season and has yet to be caught on the basepaths. The Red Sox' 2014 second-round pick is hitting .277/.310/.361 through 21 games. ROOKIE LEVEL GULF COAST LEAGUE RED SOX: 17-0 WIN AT GCL TWINS (BOX) -- Joseph Monge had a huge night in the Red Sox' rout, going 2-for-3 and drawing three walks, bringing his total to seven on the season (in contrast to five strikeouts). He also smacked his second home run of the season, bringing his slugging percentage to .590 through 11 games. The power is a new asset for Monge, who collected just five extra-base hits during 39 games in his first year with the GCL Sox last season. The 19-year-old also set a new career-high with five runs driven in atop the Red Sox lineup. Though 11 games is a small sample size, Monge is batting .308 with a .426 OBP this year. -- In his fifth professional game, Michael Chavis, the Red Sox first-round pick in this year'ÂÂs draft, went 1-for-6 with a double and two runs batted in, his first two professional RBIs. The one hit, a double, was just Chavis'ÂÂs second in 17 at-bats, but both of those hits have gone for extra bases. -- Rafael Devers continues to perform since his promotion to the GCL, going 2-for-5 with a RBI and a walk in his sixth game since moving up. The third baseman has driven in eight runs and is hitting an even .500 with a .864 slugging mark through 22 at-bats. -- For the second straight start, right-hander Jose Almonte did not allow a run, this time giving up just two hits through four innings of work. The 18-year-old has permitted four earned runs and 16 hits through 17 innings this season, walking six and striking out nine (he'ÂÂs fanned just one over his last nine innings). DOMINICAN SUMMER LEAGUE RED SOX: 5-3 WIN VS. DSL YANKEES (BOX) -- With a 1-for-3 day, outfielder Yoan Aybar has now hit safely in eight of his last nine games, bringing his average to .320 on the season. The 17-year-old knocked in two runs and racked up his ninth double of the season. Through his first 26 professional games, Aybar is hitting .320/.374/.493 with 13 extra-base hits. -- Luis Alexander Basabe went 1-for-3 with a double and RBI,his fourth double of the season. Interestingly, although Basabe only has four doubles, he'ÂÂs slugging .483 thanks to 10 triples in 33 games. The 17-year-old switch-hitter has been faring much better from the left side of the plate, crushing right-handers to the tune of .306/.439/.551 while managing a .182/.231/.182 line against southpaws. The outfielder is batting .283 with a .886 OPS on the year.


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Home/Environmental Modification
For adults who want to earn money while participating more fully in community life, our Work Skill Development programs offer paid work opportunities that teach valuable workplace skills. Depending on each individual's interests and personal goals, opportunities may include:
- Housekeeping - Adults learn to master housekeeping/janitorial skills such as window cleaning and upholstery care.
- Lawn Maintenance - Supervised work crews learn skills such as weeding, mulching and planting flowers for homes and businesses in the community.
- Woodworking - Individuals learn to design and build quality woodworking products for sale such as picnic tables and swings.
- Office/Clerical - Adults learn to help them succeed in an office environment, such as computers and filing.
- Light Assembly and Packaging - With on-site job coach support, adults build light industrial skills while learning skills such as safety and teamwork.
- Entrepreneurship - Individuals develop small business skills through projects such as eBay stores and producing handmade crafts for sale.
RHDD (Residential Home for the Developmentally Disabled) provides supportive services enabling people to live comfortable, fulfilling lives at home. Both private housing and group homes are included in our services to clients with developmental disabilities.
RHDD is approved to access Federal Medicaid dollars under the OBRA Waiver and certified for the Individual Options Waiver, allowing people with disabilities to live in the setting of their choice. Our staff provides up to 24-hour assistance to encourage clients to achieve the highest quality of life possible.
RHDD will further reduce the demands of community living by accepting payee-ship for clients. This enables RHDD too pay bills and budget for clients. As payee, staff will encourage clients to participate in managing their money to the best of their capabilities.
Our clients may receive transportation for grocery shopping, attending recreational activities, and running personal errands. The RHDD fleet includes double wheelchair accessible vans and five passenger cars. Clients are also encouraged to access their own transportation throughout the community to increase their mobility and independence.
TEAM Consulting is a vendor for the Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Bureau of Workers Compensation, Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services and as private consultants. Our referrals of consumers come directly from them.
The population we serve ranges from high school students to adults with various disabilities. We have served individuals with physical disabilities, however, the majority of individuals we work with are developmentally disabled, mentally ill, or are learning disabled. Our time with each consumer varies depending on the services provided. We provide vocational services such Work Adjustment, Job Development, Job Coaching, Assessments, Job Shadowing and Follow-up/Support services based on the counselor's request.
The average case is active until they are successfully assessed, placed in employment and are given follow-up and support services for ninety (90) days after job placement. Some consumers are not provided the entire menu of services we offer as the services are based on need and their desires.


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If you've been following this blog for a while, you probably know what I do during my free hours – beading and DIY jewelries! I started way waaaay back and my beading collection has become massive over the years. My favorite pieces are charm bracelets and earrings. I sometimes earn a few money by accepting customized orders.
This photo shows a tiny part of my collection
I have several pieces of storage boxes in different sizes that's causing a clutter in my bedroom! They're seriously very hard to maintain and clean up, I should go get a storage cabinet for my beads collection! Something like this:
photocredit: http://paperpapillon.com
It's neat and less hassle when cleaning up! Perfect! My collection isn't this huge yet but who knows, if I keep doing what I've been doing, I may need to have a separate room for my beads 5 yrs from now! You know any shop selling this type of storage cabinets? I haven't seen anything like this in SM malls. Maybe they're customized.


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Vintage Look – Safari in Coco Chanel
The summer is gone, autumn is almost over and winter is around the corner. I bet some of you decided to ditch soggy weather in order to get a bit of sun. So pack your new 2015 cruise collections and follow me…
Today Im proving you that vintage outfits from the past could be very wearable and comfortable during the warm vacation days. This Coco Chanel dress I discovered in one of my favorite online vintage shops – Vintage Voyage. Be ready to pay a tricky price for the precious pieces like that. You are getting not only the dress but the history of one of the most famous fashion houses.
I especially fell in love with the buttons on the dress which recreate profile of the glamorous Coco. Like that somehow I always feel her presence next to me.)))
Yours Aline
On the pictures me wearing: Coco Chanel vintage dress, Joseff vintage earrings, Chanel sunglasses, Charlotte Olympia brief case and shoes, Borsalino hat, Leica special edition camera.
Pictures by Andrea Monica HugBorsalino, Chanel, Charlotte Olympia, Coco Chanel, Joseff, Leica, Vintage


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Your Neighbors use Dominion Maids
We have consistently provided professional, quality cleaning services for our customers since 1995.
We are licensed, bonded and insured. We provide all cleaning equipment, towels and standard cleaning products. Our vacuums are all of micro filtration design. We use professionally cleaned micro fiber and terry cloth towels. Our personnel are uniformed, experienced and supervised.


text: After your deck is six months old and you have not sealed your deck, then you can seal with oil based UV blocking seal. All of our seals are considered clear natural seals. But none are clear like water. They all have an amber-ish cast that enhances the natural look of the wood, giving it a rich warm honey color. Usually the more UV block, the richer the look, the longer the color lasts. The lighter the seal, the higher the maintenance, the more often resealing will need to be done. *We recommend TWP 501 natural cedar, Timber Oil natural cedar and Armstrong natural cedar.