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XML::Grammar::Fiction - CPAN distribution implementing an XML grammar and a lightweight markup language for stories, novels and other fiction.
version 0.14.10
See XML::Grammar::Fiction::FromProto, XML::Grammar::Fiction::ToDocBook and XML::Grammar::Fiction::ToHTML.
XML::Grammar::Fiction is a CPAN distribution that facilitates writing prose fiction (= stories, novels, novellas, etc.). What it does is:
The best way to use it non-programatically is using XML::Grammar::Fiction::App::FromProto, XML::Grammar::Fiction::App::ToDocBook and XML::Grammar::Fiction::App::ToHTML, which are modules implementing command line applications for their processing.
In order to be able to share the common code and functionality more easily, then XML::Grammar::Screenplay, which provides similar XML grammar and text-based markup language for writing screenplays, is now included in this CPAN distribution, and you can refer to its documentation as well: XML::Grammar::Screenplay .
The rest of this page will document the syntax of the custom textual format.
Version 0.14.10
Sections are placed in XML-like tags of

 ...

 or abbreviated as
<s> ...
Opening tags in the format may have attributes whose keys are plaintext and whose values are surrounded by double quotes.
(Single-quotes are not supported).
The section tag must have an
id attribute (for anchors,
etc.) and could contain an optional (but highly recommended)
<title> sub-tag.
If the title is not specified,
it will default to the ID.
Sections may be nested.
Text is any of:
Regular text
Supported tags are
 for bold text,
 for italic text.
The text format supports SGML-like entities such as
" and all other entities that are supported by HTML::Entities.
The following characters can start a regular paragraph:
The characters
" (double quotes),
' (single quotes),
are supported.
XML/SGML entities are also supported at the start.
All other characters are reserved for special markup in the future.
If you need to use them at the beginning of the paragraph you can escape them with a backslash (
\) or their SGML/XML entity (e.g:
These are not delimited by anything - just a paragraph of text not containing an empty line.
If a paragraph starts with a Plus sign (
+ ) then it is immediately expected to be followed by a styling tag (as opposed to a
This is an ordered list with
s, similar to its purpose in XHTML.
An unordered list.
 <title>David vs. Goliath - Part I</title> <s id="top"> <title>The Top Section</title>  King David and Goliath were standing by each other. David said unto Goliath: "I will shoot you. I swear I will" <s id="goliath"> <title>Goliath's Response</title>  Goliath was not amused. He said to David: "Oh, really. David, the red-headed!". </s> </s>
Examples can be found in the
t/data directory, and here:
I (= Shlomi Fish) originated this CPAN distribution (after forking XML:Grammar::Screenplay which was similar enough) so I'll have a convenient way to edit a story I'm writing in Hebrew and similar fiction, as OpenOffice.org caused me many problems, and I found editing bi-directional DocBook/XML to be painful with either gvim or KDE 4's kate, so I opted for a more plain-texty format.
I hope a lightweight markup language like that for fiction (and possibly other types of manuscripts) will prove useful for other writers. At the moment, a lot of stuff in the proto-text format is subject to change, so you'll need to accept that some modifications to your sources will be required in the future. I hope you still find it useful and let me know if you need any feature or bug-fix.
Shlomi Fish <firstname.lastname@example.com>
This software is Copyright (c) 2007 by Shlomi Fish.
This is free software, licensed under:
The MIT (X11) License
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-Grammar-Fiction or by email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc XML::Grammar::Fiction
The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
The default CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.
The AnnoCPAN is a website that allows community annotations of Perl module documentation.
The CPAN Ratings is a website that allows community ratings and reviews of Perl modules.
The CPAN Forum is a web forum for discussing Perl modules.
The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.
The CPAN Testers is a network of smokers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.
The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.
The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.
Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to
bug-xml-grammar-fiction at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=XML-Grammar-Fiction. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.
The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)
hg clone ssh://email@example.com/shlomif/perl-XML-Grammar-Fiction


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UH Manoa professor selected for Cannes Festival Student ProgramUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
The American Pavilion is responsible for the festival's Worldwide Student Programs. The Cannes festival, which runs from May 13-24, 2009, is the premiere showcase for international films, filmmakers and celebrities.
Wang's responsibilities will include coordination of program orientation, tours, filmmaker guest lectures, workshops, seminars, and internships for the 150 international students selected for the program. He will enjoy full festival credentials to film screenings, panels and lectures.
Wang joined the ACM faculty this year from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. His specialty areas include editing, sound, and digital production.
"George has proven himself both a talented filmmaker and film scholar," said Tom Brislin, ACM chair. "His selection is a tribute to his international and intercultural reach, an important hallmark of ACM and its faculty."
The mission of the Academy for Creative Media, UH Mānoa's film school, is to empower its students to develop original and authentic stories of Hawaiʻi, the Pacific and Asia for the screen.


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Looking for something a little different for party favors for parties, Halloween or even Christmas? How about some S'mores & Hot Chocolate Party Favors?
I saw the idea for the little S'mores packets on The Partiologist. She has a great printable tag to use for Halloween. Be sure to send her some love for the cute idea!
I decided to staple a packet of hot chocolate to mine so the kids could all sit down to a yummy S'mores and cup of hot cocoa, too.
Here's how to find deals on some of the items:
Michaels sells the pretzel bags for $1.99 for 20 or $4.99 for 75. Use their 50% Off regular-priced item at Michaels Coupon. I picked up the pack of 75 as I'll make the pretzels for treats for Christmas.
Since it's Halloween-time you might find a deal on the small Hershey's candy bars in the fun-size bags. Otherwise, CVS has the 6-packs of fun-size bars on sale for $.99. Use this $1/2 Hershey's Coupon from Smart Source to save even more on them!
Check your dollar stores for the hot chocolate. Otherwise Target sells them for around $1.25.
I highly recommend the Jet-puffed Stacker Marshmallows as they fit nicely in the pretzel bags. Your grocery stores may have these on sale. They run about $2.25.
Hoping you have a fun time making them with your kids if you choose to buy them.
Another idea? You could make some Hot Chocolate Cones. I made these last year for Christmas party favors and the kids loved them!


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Prosecutors say they'll ask the Alabama Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision throwing out the 2009 conviction and death sentence of a man accused of throwing four small children off a coastal bridge.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday ordered a new trial for Lam Luong. The court ruled publicity surrounding the case made it impossible for the suspect to have a fair trial in Mobile where the crime occurred.
Attorney General's office spokeswoman Joy Patterson said Monday the state plans to appeal.
Luong, a part-time shrimp boat worker and Vietnamese immigrant, is accused of throwing the children from the Dauphin Island bridge into the Mississippi Sound in January 2008.
The trial judge denied requests by Luong's lawyers to move the trial outside of Mobile County.
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Is it the only picture he gave you of himself? (I'm wondering if there are any baby or little kid pix of your Grandma's children---I bet she'd love those, too).
If your dad wanted a quilt made to his exact specifications, he could have contracted it out to a craftsperson. Instead, he asked his daughter to do it as a shared gift. So I think you get some creative license here. Make the quilt you think your grandma would love, keep to your dad's general preferences, and leave out Becky's picture. No need to go beyond the script that was already posted by Audrey.
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DETROIT – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, along with the Detroit music duo Insane Clown Posse (ICP), filed a federal lawsuit today on behalf of Juggalos — the name ICP fans call themselves — claiming that their constitutional rights to expression and association were violated when the U.S. government "wrongly and arbitrarily" classified the entire fan base as a "hybrid" criminal gang, according to a media release
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of four Juggalos and the two members of ICP.
"The Juggalos are fighting for the basic American right to freely express who they are, to gather and share their appreciation of music, and to discuss issues that are important to them without fear of being unfairly targeted and harassed by police," Michael J. Steinberg, ACLU of Michigan legal director said in the release.
"Branding hundreds of thousands of music fans as gang members based on the acts of a few individuals defies logic and violates our most cherished of constitutional rights."
Juggalos often express their affinity for ICP by painting their faces like clowns and displaying the "hatchetman" company logo or other ICP insignias on their clothing, jewelry, body art and bumper stickers.
Juggalos are not members of an organized fan club, but come together at concerts and annual gatherings. They consider themselves a "family" of people who love and help one another and enjoy one another's company, much as Deadheads bond over the music of the Grateful Dead.
The federal government estimates there are more than a million Juggalos in the United States. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice identified Juggalos as a "hybrid gang" in the DOJ's third National Gang Threat Assessment.
As a result, "individual Juggalos are suffering improper investigations, detentions and other denials of their personal rights at the hands of government officials" or denied employment according to the lawsuit filed today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
One fan, Brandon Bradley, 20, a self-identified Juggalo, has been stopped and detained more than once by law enforcement officers in California and accused of being in a gang, according to the media release. Authorities interrogated him about being a Juggalo and his affiliated tattoos and clothing. Another plaintiff, Scott Gandy, was told he would not be accepted in the Army because his ICP tattoo was a gang symbol.
"It's unfair that police are treating fans of ICP like criminals just because of the music we like," Bradley said in the release. "Even though the Juggalo community has had a positive effect on my life, now I feel I have to cover my tattoos in certain areas or risk being harassed by police. It's wrong to make me hide who I am."
The lawsuit asks a judge to order the DOJ to remove the Juggalos from the government's gang list, and asserts that the DOJ's classification of Juggalos as a gang is unconstitutionally vague and violates their constitutional rights to association.
"It's time for the FBI to come to its senses and recognize that Juggalos are not a gang but a worldwide family united by the love of music," ICP member Joseph Bruce (aka Violent J), said at a press conference Wednesday. "There has never been — and will never be — a music fan base quite like Juggalos, and while it is easy to fear what one does not understand, discrimination and bigotry against any group of people is just plain wrong and un-American."
In 2012, attorneys representing ICP and their record label, Psychopathic Records, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI to obtain records the federal government used to justify officially designating Juggalos as a criminal gang. They said the documents contained nothing to support the claim that Juggalos are a criminal gang.
In addition to Steinberg, the Juggalos are represented by ACLU cooperating attorney Saura J. Sahu of the law firm Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, and Daniel Korobkin and Kary Moss of the ACLU of Michigan.
The members of the Insane Clown Posse are represented by Howard Hertz and Elizabeth Thomson of the firm Hertz Schram and Farris F. Haddad of Farris F. Haddad.
The members of the Insane Clown Posse are represented by Howard Hertz and Elizabeth Thomson of the firm Hertz Schram and Farris F. Haddad of Farris F. Haddad.
To read more about the lawsuit, including the complaint and plaintiff bios, visit www.aclumich.org/juggalos.


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Arcastar (pron. [arˈkastar]) is the Quenya rendition of the surname Tolkien (German Tollkühn "foolhardy, reckless, desperately brave, rushbold")
J.R.R. Tolkien signed as Arcastar Mondósaresse "Tolkien in Oxford" in a 1968 letter to the producer of the BBC documentary.
The first element seems to be related to the word arauca "swift, rushed" or from the Root (A-RAK).
The second element which can be either *astar or *star must be from stem STAR "stiff, hard"


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You don't have any of that in the pan. Just oil dripping back down from the heads and crank, and it runs down onto the baffle plate in the center first before it even touches the pan, so it doesn't even flow over the RTV around the edges. And if a piece breaks off it's usually big enough that the pickup screen will catch it, then it will drop to the bottom of the pan and settle in with all the other crud that calls it home down there. (And you'd be surprised what you can find living at the bottom of an oil pan)
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Bronson Gates is making his debut with us this week and we couldn't be happier to have finally landed this west coast hunk. Bronson is 'slightly' over 30 these days and originally from Los Angeles. Here today to show Bronson how the hot boys in the south do it is Reed Royce. Reed is 24 years old and from the very "Heart of Dixie", historic Alabama. We asked these studs if they won $1K in a lottery what they would do with their winnings. Bronson would get a membership to MenOver30.com. (...shameless plug) then spend the rest on a ticket to Hawaii. Reed would go out and party with his Mom. We then got a bit more personal and asked what part of a man's body they most like to put their tongues on. Bronson loves to use his tongue on a hot ass. Reed's more of a chiseled chest man. I sense a bit of foreshadowing. We then flipped it around and asked where they most want a man to put his tongue on them. "In my mouth", eagerly replies Bronson; only to be out done by "In my ass!" by Reed who is now grinning ear to ear. These two are going to get along just swell.
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Wolfpack makes a 'State-ment' with Jimmy V Classic win
The term "statement win" is used a lot these days, especially in the weeks leading up to college basketball's Selection Sunday. In that context, N.C. State's 69-65 victory against UConn at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday certainly fits the description. It was a gritty win coach Mark Gottfried's 25th-ranked Wolfpack desperately needed, even if it wasn't especially well-played or if the Huskies are no longer the nationally prominent power they once were. But while the outcome will certainly help keep… Read More »


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Fabrizio Zanotti shot 3-under-par 68 on Friday and grabbed a 1-stroke lead through two rounds of the Open de France.
Zanotti, a three-time runner-up on the European Tour, completed 36 holes at Le Golf National at 6-under-par 136, one stroke ahead of Soren Kjeldsen (68), Thomas Bjorn (69) and Richard Sterne (69).
Graeme McDowell, who had missed the cut in five of his previous six stroke play events before this tournament, carded his second straight 69 and moved into a tie for fifth place at 5-under. The former U.S. Open winner stands alongside Simon Dyson (68), Stephen Gallacher (70) and Graeme Storm (68).
"It's been a rough couple of months for me," said McDowell, who has one win apiece on the European Tour and PGA Tour this season. "I've not been playing the kind of golf I'd like to and the key to this week was to come and get myself in the mix for the weekend and get some of the juices flowing again.
"I'm excited for the weekend and to make a cut really. It feels like a step in the right direction."
Eduardo De la Riva (67), Richard Green (70) and Scott Jamieson (70) are tied for ninth at minus-3.
Overnight leader Anders Hansen, who has been battling a nagging hand injury which will require surgery, plummeted down the leaderboard into a share of 44th at 2-over courtesy of a second-round 78. The three-time European Tour winner is joined there by Luke Donald and Ian Poulter.
Defending champion Marcel Siem finished 36 holes at 6-over-par 148 and missed the cut.
A one-hour delay due to fog did little to slow Bjorn, who opened from the 10th tee with three birdies in his first five holes to overtake Hansen and move two clear of the field in the early going. That run got Bjorn to 6-under for the tournament, but he played the remainder of his second round at 1-over, countering bogeys at Nos. 18, 8 and 9 with birdies at the third and fifth to grab a share of the clubhouse lead at 5-under.
Sterne was also was also in the clubhouse at 5-under under thanks to three birdies in his final four holes, but Zanotti was poised to make a move.
The 30-year-old from Paraguay began on No. 1 and birdied two of his first three holes to catch the clubhouse leaders. He added another gain at the ninth to make the turn in sole possession of the lead at 6-under.
After a pair of pars, Zanotti dropped back to the pack with a bogey at the par-4 12th, but he rebounded with a birdie at No. 14 to move back to minus-6. He parred out to stay on top.
NOTES: Zanotti is a one-time winner on the Challenge Tour ... His last runner- up finish came at the Irish Open in 2012 ... American Matt Kuchar finished 36 holes on the cut line at 3-over-par 145 ... The site of this week's tournament, Le Golf National, will be the host for the 2018 Ryder Cup.


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Globally, the dental and oral health market is booming. But in some established markets businesses are increasingly challenged on how to differentiate their products or services against competitors.
Success depends on a deep understanding of the expectations and requirements of dental and oral health care professionals – and knowing which factors influence them when choosing specific products and services.
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We offer comprehensive consultancy and a full range of services - including multi-client studies, dental 'omnibuses', our own dental panels and ad hoc studies. Combined with our extensive research expertise, this allows us to answer any question that you have; providing smart insights based on your specific dental and oral market needs.


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Reasons to Get a Flu Shot
|Author: Jenil Patel (Original Author: Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times Health)
Date: Thursday, June 27th, 2013
The flu vaccine is far from 100 percent effective, but researchers have calculated that over the past six years it has prevented millions of illnesses and tens of thousands of hospitalizations.
The analysis, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was published in the journal PLoS One. Using national surveillance data, the researchers estimated the number of cases and hospitalizations in each flu season from 2005-6 through 2010-11. Then, accounting for year-to-year variations in vaccine efficacy, vaccine coverage and disease occurrence, they calculated the number of cases and hospitalizations that were avoided by vaccination.
The numbers varied by year and by age group, but over the six seasons, they found that about 13.6 million illnesses, 5.8 million medical visits and 112,900 influenza-related hospitalizations were prevented by using the vaccine. The largest impact was in 2010-11, when there were large increases in coverage, which the researchers attribute at least in part to the severity of the 2009 pandemic of H1N1 influenza, or swine flu.
"The vaccine's not perfect," said an author of the study, Carrie Reed, an epidemiologist with the C.D.C., "but some protection is better than none. Up to about 18 percent of cases were actually averted by our vaccination program, which is a sizable number."
A future analysis will use similar techniques to determine the number of deaths avoided by use of the vaccine.
Tobacco control efforts are having a major impact on Americans' health, a new analysis of lung-cancer data suggests.
How does one ditch a dependence on soda? Here are five tips for kicking your soda habit for good.
Are artificial sweeteners used in soft drinks and foods safe? Will they make us fat? How much is too much? Science doesn't have all the answers yet, but researchers have some clues.
How does one ditch a dependence on soda? Here are five tips for kicking your soda habit for good.
Are artificial sweeteners used in soft drinks and foods safe? Will they make us fat? How much is too much? Science doesn't have all the answers yet, but researchers have some clues.
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The Secret Sauce For Awesomeness
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I'm not really supposed to tell you this because awesomeness is not for everybody, but here's the secret recipe to being a rock star online.
YOU + Passion + Internet = Awesome
I should know. I get to spend my work days tweeting and surfing the Internet, as I hunt for great stories to share with the world. Some of the very best have come from young netizens like Scottish schoolgirl Martha Payne.
Martha started blogging about her school lunches back in 2012, in a blog called Neverseconds.
Here's one of her early posts: (see photo 1).
It wasn't long before kids from around the world began sending her pictures of their school meals, too. Check out this tasty looking lunch from Taiwan: (see photo 2)
Martha created a Food-O-Meter to rate her meals, and now millions of followers check in to see what she's been eating for lunch. She's also become a powerful campaigner for healthy school lunches for all children around the world, and raises money for the charity Mary's Meals.
That's just one story about what something as simple as posting a photograph on a blog can do. How inspiring is that?! I hope Martha's story has given you some ideas. I can't wait to see what you have to share with the world. Just remember — YOU + Passion + Internet = Awesome
Femi Oke is an international broadcaster, journalist and writer. She's currently based in Washington D.C. where she hosts the current affairs show "The Stream" for Al Jazeera English. Online Femi curates for the social media organization Upworthy and blogs at therealfemioke.com. Femi's work has been recognized by The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Communications Agency and InterAction.. Since the 1980's she has worked for BBC television and radio, all the UK terrestrial television networks, CNN and US public radio. You can reach Femi anytime on Twitter @FemiOke.


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Submission + - Hacker Hacks Floridas Voting Database Again (zeropaid.com)
Dangerous_Minds writes: Previously, a hacker that goes by the name of Abhaxas exposed parts of the Florida voting database. That apparently didn't sit well with election officials. Reportedly, officials said that authorities were contacted and that their databases are now more secure than ever. In turn, Abhaxas decided to hack the database again and reveal a file directory. Said Abhaxas in the posting, "Glad you cleaned things up, pretty secure now guys."


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John T Davies
John Davies has worked his way up from hardware design though assembly code, C, C++ and Java programming, head of dealing room technology trading to global chief architect at two large investment banks. The majority of his 25 plus years has been in investment banking and in 2000 John started his second company C24, selling it to Iona Technologies in 2007. John is currently chief architect at Revolution Money in the US and recently started a new company called Incept5. John has 3 young boys, Luc, James and Pierre, a French wife Rachel and lives in London when he's not travelling, his main hobby is B&W photography.
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This weeks post is all about eco-compatible sunscreen Aethic is an eco and marine friendly sunbloack brand which is all about "being one with nature".
Over the past two years the skin care brand has been developing their sea friendly sunblock Sôvée which promises to be safer, softer and better for your skin as well as 100% scientifically coral safe.
The suncream has since been the first sunscreen in the world to gain a Marine Positive Certification and it certainly has our seal of approval!


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1 Get information from current site (source, links...)
2 Fill and send forms. What kind of fileds I can filed?
3 Can I store information to file?
1) Right click on page and choose Page Properties from the popup menu.
I need get source frm macros
3) I am not sure what you mean. Can you describe your requirements in more detail?
Any way to save information on hard drive
That is possible. If you right click on an empty area of a page, you will get a pop-up menu. One of the items on that menu is "Page Properties" which is also a pop-up menu. On that menu is an item named "Source Code". That will open a window so that you can view the source code of the current page.Quote
I need to get source of page using commands of macrolanguage and work with this source code
Where can I see description of reading/wrriting ini files?
And stupid quiestion- how to run macros after saving text in dir?
# K-Meleon Macros (http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?id=MacroLanguage[2])Older code may reference MacroLanguage and newer code may reference Macrolanguage2. Most of the time the code is in a slightly different font and often ends with a statement like this.
$macroModules=$macroModules."ini_Demo;";3) Save the file as macro name with the extension "kmm". In the case of ini_demo the name should be "ini_demo.kmm". Special note - if using Notepad. You must change the Save as type to "All files" so Notepad will not add the extension "txt". Sometimes the file name is found just above the code and other time it is located within the comment block. It should be the same name that appears in the $macroModules line.
_Snippet_RunCode { id( ID_EDIT_SELECT_ALL ); id( ID_EDIT_COPY ); $_Snippet_TEXT = getclipboard(); $_Snippet_len = length($_Snippet_TEXT); alert($_Snippet_len); if ($_Snippet_len < 32000) { alert($_Snippet_TEXT); } }


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India backs off RIM, starts on local operators
Do this thing you can't do, yeah?
India's government has given up pestering RIM and is now asking the country's network operators to provide lawful intercept capability, despite their inability to do so.
Having demanded that Research In Motion provide access to BlackBerry communications, and seen several deadlines pass without the issue resolved, the Wall Street Journal tells us that Indian government is now pursuing network operators instead, though one can't help wondering if that comes as a prelude to a ban.
Research In Motion is already providing intercept services for messaging, web browsing and email hosted on its own servers - as it does in every other country, with the degree of judicial oversight being set by the local government. But RIM has stubbornly refused to provide access to corporate email services on the grounds that it doesn't have (or want) the cryptographic keys necessary, and that has all sorts of governments upset.
Having threatened to ban the service, and repeatedly petitioned RIM to do the impossible, the Indians are now formally requesting the network operators provide access to the encrypted communications as required by Indian law.
Failing to provide for lawful intercept could put the operators' licences at risk, leaving them with no choice but to drop support for BlackBerry without the government having to risk a diplomatic incident by demanding a ban on products from a specific Canadian company, but it also shifts responsibility from the government to the private operators and sets a tone for the future.
The Indian government has made no secret of its intention to target Skype next, followed by other peer-to-peer services that lack a central key store. Being able to fine the network operators for carrying the traffic is a lot easier than playing whack-a-mole with those providing the services, and the Indians are adamant that national security can't be assured without exercising its legitimate intercept powers.
Most services terminate in a data centre where legal powers can be used to see what's going on, but peer-to-peer services present a challenge to law enforcement around the world as criminals of all kinds discover how easy it is to keep their communication beyond prying eyes. ®
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Barcode Professional is the most flexible & powerful royalty-free barcode component for Microsoft .NET Windows Forms applications. Version 6.0 features new barcode standards including UPS MaxiCode (2D), Micro QR Code (2D), all GS1 DataBar family (formerly RSS-14) and many more! Some other new features include text justification alignment and support for multiline text, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) exportation generating true vector-based barcodes, and a new barcode engine.
What's new in Barcode Professional 6.0 for .NET Windows Forms?
- New! Barcode Symbologies added:
-- UPS MaxiCode (2D)
-- Micro QR Code (2D)
-- GS1 DataBar Omnidirectional (formerly RSS-14)
-- GS1 DataBar Truncated (formerly RSS-14 Truncated)
-- GS1 DataBar Stacked (formerly RSS-14 Stacked)
-- GS1 DataBar Stacked Omnidirectional (formerly RSS-14 Stacked Omnidirectional)
-- GS1 DataBar Limited (formerly RSS Limited)
-- GS1 DataBar Expanded (formerly RSS Expanded)
-- GS1 DataBar ExpandedStacked (formerly RSS Expanded Stacked)
-- EAN UPC AddOn 2
-- EAN UPC AddOn 5
-- USPS Package Identification Code (PIC) based on Code 128
-- Matrix 2 of 5
-- Danish Postal 39
-- French Postal 39 A/R
- Improved! QR Code - Added user selection for encoding (code page) when using Byte compaction mode.
- Improved! MSI - Added second checksum.
- New! Barcode generation engine re-written from ground up.
- New! Added others Barcode Unit of measurement (Inch, CM, MM and Mils).
- New! Added barcode padding space.
- New! Added Text Justification for alignment.
- New! Added support for displaying multiline texts.
- New! Added Bar Width Adjustment feature.
- New! Added separated font settings for additional text and value to encode.
- New! Added HumanReadableText property which will be used (if specified) instead of value to encode which is hold by Code property.
- New! Added EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) exportation generating true vector-based barcodes with RGB and CMYK color spaces support.
- New! Added EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile) exportation generating true vector-based barcodes.
- New! Added TIFF Compression algorithms (LZW, CCITT3, CCITT4 and RLE) when generating barcodes in such image format.
- Improved! "Fit barcode to size" feature.
- Improved! BarRatio property converted to float point number.
- Improved! DrawOnCanvas method now honors PageScale property of the involved Graphics object.
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The annual Starlight Celebration will be returning, heralding the arrival of the winter season. From December 18th through the 31st, players will be able to immerse themselves in a glorious festival. Been looking for a pair of Christmas-y gloves to go with the long-standing set? A new set of Dream gloves have been added! For those looking for something to decorate their Mog House with, the brand new Orchestrion furniture piece, a new item that allows you to select your own Mog House music, will be available for those that complete the various minigames available during the Celebration!
Let us know what you think of the Orchestrion and the upcoming Starlight Celebration over on the ZAM forums!
From Playonline.com:
Merry Starlight, everyone!
The wicked witches of the west have been expelled from their Halloween mischief, and now the year's end is close at hand.
Yet there is one last hurrah to close out the winter season. That's right—Starlight Celebration!
In celebration of this yearly reverie, merrymakers throughout Vana'diel have prepared wonderful presents for the adventurers of the land. Of course, all things come with a price...
And as always, the MHMU has given its all to bring the festivities to you.
The puffballs of the MHMU staff have been bouncing to and fro as they scurry about, working to give Vana'diel's adventurers their due. Mog workshops have been popping up left and right, with divisions and branches of the union being formed, consolidated, and eliminated, to help create the latest and greatest of products for this joyous season. Our story takes us behind the scenes at one of the newly-minted workshops.
The stage is set but hours before the sun was to descend and usher in the first night of this year's Starlight Celebration. A particularly harried moogle from the Third Production Department's Quality Control Crew thrust open the doors of his manager's office, his face flush. Well, flush for a moogle, that is.
"Mercy me!" he exclaimed. "Monumental mistakes abound, kupo!"
The manager remained composed in an attempt to calm his subordinate. "Shhh, shhh. Settle down, my worried worker. Rambunctious rambling will rile our strung-out staff." He made a habit of never ending his sentences with the traditional "kupo"—a habit he picked up from years working together alongside humes. For you see, he was originally a nomad moogle, wandering Vana'diel in search of knowledge. Eventually, he found what he was looking for and settled in with the MHMU, where he was appointed as the manager of the Third Production Department after a few scant years.
"What prodigious problem puzzles you so?"
"The o-orchestrion! We brought to bear a bewildering bug that bars the playback of titillating tunes!"
His voice jumped an octave and began to crack. The error was more dire than the manager originally assumed.
The orchestrion was to be the highlight of this year's Starlight celebration, with the MHMU choosing to take on a more restrained role this year. The Third Production Department was tasked with the creation of a prize most wondrous to be given to participating adventurers.
The appeal of this device lay in its ability to automatically play music of the owner's choosing, requiring only a simple sheet of music to operate. A veritable work of art that fused a mechanical apparatus with more traditional manufacturing techniques, the orchestrion was designed to emit the colorful, dulcet tones comparable to those of a live orchestra in one simple, box-shaped fixture. The term "box," however, may be a bit of a misnomer, as an orchestrion stands taller than its moogle designer. The real magic lies in the orchestrion's inner workings—opening the front panel reveals not a plethora of musical instruments, but rather a magical doll that emits soft sounds that reverberate deep within the listener's soul.
Of course, despite his worldliness, not even the manager was sure by what process the doll consumes sheet music to produce its melodious timbre.
At present, only three types of sheet music had been ready to undergo full-scale production. Perhaps the bug had to do with the music itself, rather than any fault with the device proper? No matter, the manager would not tolerate failure; any issue with the Celestial Nights celebration would cause the MHMU's standing with Vana'diel's population to fall precipitously. It goes without saying that blame would rightfully fall on the Third Production Department, and the manager himself would likely be fired on the spot.
"Bring me the malfunctioning musical mechanism!" He ordered.
"Y-yessir, kupo!"
Orchestrions were not to be presented to Starlight Celebration participants wholesale, but rather divided up into a series of three kits containing eight parts. Simple assembly of these three kits is all that is required to craft one. The QC leader had brought in one of each kit, assembled the device, and fed it a piece of sheet music.
After a brief pause, a bell gave one sharp chime and the music began to play.
If you can call it "music." It was a cacophony, causing the moogles' fur to stand on end.
"B-boss! This jarring jingle, I...I...!"
"Keep composed!"
Yet the manager himself was starting to shake and tremble at the maddening dissonance emanating from the orchestrion. Was this some kind of cruel joke!?
The sound pierced the eardrum like a knife thrusting into the moogles' very brains.
Like fingers scratching a blackboard.
Like dragging metal along stone.
Like rubbing two pieces of lizard skin together.
And so it went on, and on, and on.
"P-please, stop my suffering, kupoooooo!"
The QC leader did a double pirouette and collapsed in a heap on the ground. The manager glanced nervously about him, and saw the extent of the damage. In every direction, moogles were writhing in agony. They clasped their hands over their ears, dropped their heads in pain, and rolled around on the floor like marbles spilling forth from a sack. Oops—there went another one, his eyes rolling back in his head as he lost consciousness. There's a shorter one, curled in the fetal position in one corner of the room. Another covered head to toe in soot, foaming at the mouth.
And things were getting worse.
Even just the slightest sound from the device caused the most monumental pain. It was then that the manager realized—he, too, felt like he had to throw up. He lunged for the switch, smacking it as hard as he could.
Silence filled the room.
"Altana Almighty! This perverted product must not permeate the public!"
He began flinging orders left and right. Further inquiry showed that the music had been improperly transposed during the production process. They workers fixed the errors, performed test after test, and were satisfied that the error had been rectified.
Day and night they spent, toiling hour after hour to catch up to missed deadlines. They made just the right number, and delivered the final products to gift exchange centers throughout the world. Of course, speedy moogle transportation techniques did make things a bit easier.
The QC leader barely had the energy to utter this simple phrase, and unceremoniously passed out on the floor.
"Zzzzz...zzzzz..." his snoring could be heard from malms away.
"Time for a relaxing respite!"
The manager, thankfully, had escaped from the carrion clutches of unemployment.
The orchestrions' sounds were melodious and harmonic once more, with all defects having been ironed out. He sighed heavily, feeling the weight and stress of having worked ceaselessly over the past week. He slumped forward in his chair, sleep's gentle embrace taking hold.
On a divine night filled with gentle snowflakes, the moogles of the Third Product Department remain in the workshop, curled up with blankets as faint snores and drool escape their half-open mouths. The lovely notes of the orchestrions loop endlessly in their dreams—the fruits of labor having finally borne sweet fruit.
Story: Miyabi Hasegawa
Illustration: Mitsuhiro Arita
Event Schedule
The Starlight Celebration will commence at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 18, 2012, (PST) and come to a close at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, December 31, 2012 (PST).
Games for the Willing and Able!
During the Starlight Celebration, special minigames will be available for adventurers to enjoy. To the victor goes the spoils—items, synthesis materials to create an orchestrion, and sheet music key items to be used with it.
Southern San d'Oria (H-9)
Post Bastok (K-12)
Windurst Woods (K-12)
- What is an orchestrion?
An orchestrion is an item that lets adventurers change the music in their Mog House. Orchestrions can be built by synthesizing items won in minigames. Music is played using sheet music key items and spinets. Sheet music can be won from Starlight Celebration minigames.
Background music may be changed by using the controller located near the entrance. Players invited to your Mog House will also be able to enjoy the music. However, if music that the player has not installed is selected, the regular Mog House music will play.
* Selecting a spinet song requires that both an orchestrion and spinet be in your Mog House.
* Orchestrions may be created using a synergy recipe.
Past Rewards
Previous Starlight Celebration rewards can be obtained at the following locations
Northern San d'ria (J-9)
Bastok Markets (G-8)
Windurst Waters (F-9 North)
Special Store Moogles
Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
Bastok Mines (H-9)
Windurst Waters (G-10 North)
Astral Boxes
West Ronfaure / East Ronfaure
North Gustaberg / South Gustaberg
West Sarutabaruta / East Sarutabaruta
Southern San d'Oria (H-9) / Northern San d'Oria (J-8)
Bastok Markets (G-8) / Bastok Mines (I-8)
Windurst Woods (H-11) / Windurst Waters (F-9 North)
Southern San d'Oria (K-9) / Northern San d'Oria (D-8)
Bastok Markets (G-8) Bastok Mines (I-9)
Windurst Waters (F-5 North) / Windurst Woods (K-10)
Beginner: East Ronfaure (G-6) / South Gustaberg (I-7) / East Sarutabaruta (G-11)
Intermediate: La Theine Plateau (K-8) / Konschtat Highlands (I-6) / Tahrongi Canyon (I-6)
Advanced: Batallia Downs (K-8) / Rolanberry Fields (I-6 / Sauromugue Champaign (F-6)


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TriMet had experienced a notable increase in ridership during April/May 2012 due to a large spike in gas prices.
This year, the average weekly ridership was down overall 4.6 percent, with MAX weekly trips down eight percent.
Much of the decrease is attributed to the elimination of the Free Rail Zone, an increase in fare enforcement efforts and the cost of fuel at roughly $.33 per gallon lower than this time last year.
WES ridership continues to grow across the board with weekday and weekly trips up 4.8 percent and quarterly trips up 4.9 percent.
• Quarterly trips were down 7.8 percent to 9,985,000
• Weekly trips were down 8.0 percent to 762,400
• Weekday trips were down 6.5 percent to 122,100
• Weekend trips were down 13.3 percent to 151,900
• Quarterly trips were up 4.9 percent to 114,050
• Weekly trips were up 4.8 percent to 8,750
• Weekday were up 4.8 percent to 1,750
In other news, TriMet and GlobeSherpa are preparing for the August launch of the TriMet Tickets app, a free smartphone app for riders to conveniently and easily buy and use fares. You simply download the free app, enter your credit or debit card information into the secure system and then buy and use the fares with just a few taps of the screen. The app will provide another outlet for ticket purchase in addition to retail outlets and ticket vending machines at MAX/WES stations.
In addition to buying and using fares, the mobile app provides easy access to TriMet's online trip planning tool, TransitTracker, maps and schedules.


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First Look
First Look: Capdase Necklace Earphone & Splitter Set for iPod Series
Company: Capdase
Website: www.capdase.com
Model: Necklace Earphone and Splitter Set
Available from shop.vinko.com
Price: $18
Compatible: All iPods
This combination of white lanyard earphones and a headphone jack splitter improves modestly on the super-cheap ones we've seen recently from China, but one the included white ear foams ripped during initial installation. We continue not to like this design anywhere near as much as Apple's Lanyard Headphones for iPod nano.
Editors' Note: iLounge only reviews products in "final" form, but many companies now change their offerings - sometimes several times - after our reviews have been published. This iLounge article provides more information on this practice, known as revving.


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I am a big fan of TDD -- and I agree with sfink's post. In particular,
I then discover that some fundamental piece of my design needs to be changed slightly. Theoretically, this should be no big deal since I have the test cases to allow me to change things drastically without worrying about breaking something subtle. In practice, that is true -- but I end up spending far too much time making the change, fixing things up so that all the old tests work, then making use of the change to implement the new tests.Right on.
The refactoring and XP folks make a big distinction between refactoring (improving the design of existing code) and adding new functionality. And often it is claimed you can refactor safely because 'your tests protect you'. Agreed, but like sfink, I find refactoring requires you to recode (often nearly all) the tests as well.
This recoding is well worth it, of course. And TDD as a whole is very much worth it. But still, the tests -- necessarily so -- are very dependent on the specifics of the code tested. I find my tests break and need rebuilding (not just fail, and require the module to be changed) when the module goes through large revision.
My current testing challenge is adding application or user tests -- so far I've been living the easier world of unit tests.... app tests (particularly in a web environment) take more effort. I'm plan is to continue using extensive unit testing to confirm each module behaves as it should, then confine my app tests to one or two simple basic run-thrus of the web app's main funtion. I've noticed when the apps break, it is no longer due to the objects (which are well tested), but to the thin (Mason) glue holding them together. That said, I've not done much app test writing yet, and (unklike unit tests), can't seem to get into the rythm of writing app tests.
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Two scenarios presented themselves in Geneva School District 304 as last weekend wound to a close.
Either classes would be in session Monday or they would not, with a potential teachers strike being the deciding factor.
Fortunately for all in the District 304 community, a strike was averted and classes took place Monday without interruption.
For this, we credit the school board and the Geneva Education Association. It certainly would not have been ideal for students to miss regular class time because of a strike. Children and teens only benefit from attending classes on a normal schedule.
But all is not finalized yet.
Though a tentative three-year agreement has been reached between the school board and teachers union, the board still has to approve the contract. That could take place Tuesday during a special meeting.
The Geneva teachers union did ratify the new contract Wednesday. Details of the deal will become publicly available once it is approved by the school board.
Once that happens, it will be time for all involved – board members, teachers, administrators, parents, volunteers and kids – to put 100 percent of their focus back on day-to-day district operations.


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1) What did you think of Billy's conversation with Bella and her response?
i don't recall their first conversation much...sorry lol
2) Did you approve of the way Charlie treated Edward as the first boyfriend Bella ever brought home?
no, i thought he could ave been a bit nicer.
3) Edward talks about his inner turmoil regarding constantly putting Bella into danger. Do you think he is to hard on himself?
i do
4) Edward finally says "I love you". Were you disappointed in how it came out almost off-handedly.
no, not at all! loll
5) We learn more about Esme, was your impression of her changed after learning more about her?
no, i liked her more actually


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Jason Stipp: I'm Jason Stipp for Morningstar. We got the government retail sales report for February this week. It showed a 1.1% month-to-month increase. A lot of that was driven by gasoline in this non-inflation-adjusted report. So, how good was that number? Digging below the surface is Morningstar's Bob Johnson, our director of economic analysis.
Thanks for joining me, Bob.
Bob Johnson: Great to be here.
Stipp: The month-to-month number looks very good. Normally, you look a bit longer term, but you told me this time there are some interesting things to talk about in the month-to-month data. What's your take on that 1.1% and some of the hints and trends you saw there.
Johnson: Sure, overall it's a good number. It was better than expectations, better than I was looking for, and certainly indicates that maybe the payroll tax hasn't killed the consumer just yet. We were all very fearful. Especially, there were rumors early in the month about some disaster sales reports out of Wal-Mart, which is particularly affected by all the negative trends that are out there. So it was a great deal of relief to see this number.
Digging down a little bit, obviously, on the month-to-month numbers, the big driver was gasoline sales, which were up a lot, but that's up mainly not because people were buying more gasoline. It was just because prices were up. Building materials was another strong category. It was kind of out of the reach of conventional retail but also did well with the housing situation dramatically improving and probably the weather forcing people into the stores a little bit differently than they did in the past.
Stipp: So, some of the short-term concerns here were that payroll tax holiday expired so people kept less of their money out of their paychecks, and then also, as you said, gas was a big component here. People were spending more on gas because gas prices are higher. If you take both of those out, month-to-month like in the short-term, how are other retailers doing? Are they struggling because of the higher gas and higher tax?
Johnson: You know what it depends on where you are. Some of the people like the nonstore retailers, the online companies--primarily let's use Amazon.com as the factor there--there when you got gasoline prices up, it actually might benefit some a little bit because people are less prone to go drive or think, "I'll just punch into Amazon, and I'm done. I don't have to go driving for it."
So, certainly the gasoline in the short term helps some of that. We saw both year over year and month to month some great numbers out of the Amazon-like outlets. We were up both year on year over 15%. In fact now some of the nonstore retailers are getting to be huge. I mean they were 8.5% of retail a year ago. In one year that moved to 9.5%, so some pretty dramatic improvement there.
Stipp: I want to dig into some of those trends in a moment, but you mentioned there, you started to talk about year-over-year numbers. This is how you generally look at the data year over year. You do some averaging to smooth some things out. When you do those calculations, how is February coming in? Is it a continuation of a decent trend for consumers? What's your take?
Johnson: I like to look at a three-month moving average, and I like to look at it year over year. And there the number is 4.1% growth. I wrote last week that I thought it'd be just under 4%. So, the fact that we're just over 4% is actually a positive. I think the actual number in the last 12 months has been 4.1% for probably five or six of those 12 months. So, it's very much on trend. It's not above or below. So, it kind of says that maybe the payroll tax isn't killing us after all.
Stipp: So that's some good news at least for now on that. Consumers still seem to be on pace for the longer-term trends. Let's talk a little bit now about some of these lower-level retail categories, and you mentioned the nonstore retailers include Amazon. So Amazon looks like it's stealing share when you look retail sales divided by these nonstore-online, and brick-and-mortar, the department stores and some of those others. What's happening there? Is Amazon getting a lot of that business?
Johnson: Yes, absolutely. And not just Amazon. I think it's mail-order or anything like that. And again the stores aren't terribly consistent. Some stores have a separate division that they announced their sales for electronically and some don't. So, it does mix and match the numbers a little bit. But I would say that overall things like Amazon are doing very well on a year-over-year basis. I mentioned up kind of 15% or so.
Meanwhile, department-store sales are down about 4% year over year, and so that's where you probably see the biggest numbers. But for some of the other individual categories, [Amazon] has a little thumb print on it here and there too. But the biggest one that [Amazon] is hurting is the general merchandisers, and that's why you may hear a lot from your conventional retailers like, "Things are weak; things are terrible." Well, part of it is because the business is going to Amazon and part of it is because people are going to supercenters and warehouse stores, which again gain more share and looked a lot better than department stores. So, [conventional retailers] are getting hit on kind of both ends. And then the whole gas situation that's going on makes people not want to drive and spend their money on gas instead of other things.
So, clearly we got to be very careful when we analyze numbers. [Some people may say consumer spending] is bad when we look at places like Kohl's, Kmart, or whatever. Those probably aren't the best representation of the economy anymore.
Stipp: If you think broadly about the economy and the fact that we are seeing some consolidation, Amazon is obviously a big one taking a lot of share. Could it have a negative effect on employment if several department stores are losing share to this one big online superstore?
Johnson: Well, certainly that would appear to be one of the worries. Retail employment growth has been OK because they've now put more people in some of the stores maybe in an attempt to fight back against the Amazon. So, that's the bright side of it. On the other hand, as more people do buy from Amazon, I assume they have [fewer employees] per unit sold than a conventional store would. So, then it's going to hurt employment, so you've kind of got that, "How do we compete against Amazon?" Well maybe [conventional stores] have more people and more hours. But then you've got the thing of the business clearly going to Amazon, and Amazon obviously has fewer employees per dollar of retail spent.
Stipp: Amazon is attractive to a lot of folks because you don't have to pay sales tax when you buy from them, at least not right on the spot.
Johnson: Right.
Stipp: If that changes, and they start to have to collect sales tax, do you think that you will see some of that strong share by Amazon not as strong in the future?
Johnson: It's a strong prediction, here, but I don't think we'll ever see that number move down as a percentage. It may not go up as fast as it did, but I don't think we're ever going to see it go in the other direction. I think people have enjoyed the convenience of Amazon. The high gasoline prices have kind of forced people into it. The need for convenience has certainly helped. And the [lack of] sales tax has helped some, but I think it's probably a little bit more of the convenience. And now they've got people locked in with programs like Amazon Prime that gives you free shipping. There is even talk of one-day delivery out of Amazon, and I think all of those things will probably keep that moving in a direction to hurt conventional stores.
Stipp: What about drugstores? It's another category that we've seen some variance in performance. How did those do?
Johnson: Yeah, I mean drugstores have been a really big drag on the number. Some of it's just been because of how Walgreen is in the numbers. They lost the big prescription-processing contract [with Express Scripts] but now have got part of it back. So that's beginning to show up and help a little bit. And then we've got the whole patent-cliff issue and the drugs where people move from branded versions of drugs to generic versions of drugs, which cost a fraction of the price. And so we've had down drugstore sales for some time.
And now over the last three months we've clearly seen an acceleration in trend. I think we've finally gotten some of the major drugs--the conversion of generic is finished. We had a flu season that was little stronger that helped the drugstores, especially in December, and that started to even burn off on the month-to-month [number] a little bit. But still that's been a really hard-hit category that may suddenly start to look better.
Stipp: The housing market has been a bright spot in the economy. Are we seeing that in some of the retail numbers, housing-related retailers?
Johnson: Well certainly the building-materials stores were unbelievably strong in this month's report. And again you've got to be a little careful with just one month's report, but even year over year the building-materials sector is looking like it's been growing quite a bit higher than the rest of the retail components.
Stipp: Is that a Home Depot, Lowe's kind of store in there.
Johnson: Yes, that's primarily what's in there, actually, yes.
Stipp: And furniture, doing better?
Johnson: Yes, that's a hard one. Year over year furniture looks very good. One of the stronger categories. We've had a surprisingly couple of weak months, one flat and one down now this month for furniture. I don't know what's behind that. I mean we had a huge boom in December. Maybe it's just how the accounting flowed through or whatever. That's why I take a three-month moving average and like to look a little better sometimes. But still it is one of the surprise ones that I'm going to keep my eye on. I don't exactly what's happening on that one.
Stipp: But generally given what's happening in the housing market, you would expect these materials stores and the furniture stores continue to do well.
Johnson: Yes.
Stipp: Let's talk lastly about autos. So, autos had a strong month. Usually when you see autos having a strong month, people might not be spending as much on electronics or maybe on housing or other kinds of retail purchases. How [are auto sales] and how might they affect these other categories?
Johnson: Well, you know the number without autos was almost as strong as with autos. So, it's been a positive factor, and I don't know where the consumers exactly have found the money. But certainly they did buy autos and they did spend in other places this month, and on gasoline on top it. So, the consumers seem to have some real desire to spend and maybe the wherewithal, too, looking at some of our income data. But it's highly unusual to have such a strong auto month and have regular retail be so good because there seems to be a real substitution. If you are shopping for a car or laying out the money for the down payment, you don't have the money to do as many other things. And maybe it hurt the restaurants a little bit, I suppose, but that's about all I could see.
Stipp: So, the bottom line is some higher costs at the gasoline pump and some higher taxes haven't sunk the consumer so far, at least, from what we can tell.
Johnson: I'll tell you that the consumer seems resilient right now. And now it looks like in February they had another issue, which was they didn't get their tax refunds from a major tax company because of an error, so that kind of even compounded the problem further.
Stipp: All right, Bob, so very interesting trends when you dig beneath the surface on the retail sales data. Thanks for joining me again today.
Johnson: Great to be here.
Stipp: From Morningstar, I'm Jason Stipp. Thanks for watching.


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(CNN) -- United States captain Paul Azinger has upped the stakes ahead of September's Ryder Cup with a stinging attack on his Europe team counterpart Nick Faldo.
Nick Faldo, left, and Paul Azinger will continue their rivalry at the Ryder Cup in September.
Faldo's stewardship ahead of Europe's bid for victory at Valhalla in Kentucky has already been criticized following his admonishment of Colin Montgomerie for his behavior at last season's Seve Trophy match in Ireland.
And now Azinger, who has had a rocky relationship with Faldo both as a player and television commentator, has weighed in by claiming that the Englishman is not popular with his players.
"Nick Faldo has tried to redefine himself," the American told Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper. "I'd say he is both who he is and who he was.
"Some people have bought it. Some have not. But if you're going to be a p***k and everyone hates you, why do you think that just because you're trying to be cute and funny on air now that the same people are all going to start to like you?
"The bottom line is that the players from his generation and mine really don't want to have anything to do with him. He did what he did as a player and there are consequences."
Faldo, the record points scorer in Ryder Cup history, was renowned for his single-minded approach as a player -- which won him six major titles but few friends on the course.
His first run-in with Azinger came in 1987. After winning his first British Open at Muirfield, Faldo reportedly commented "Tough luck, old boy" after the American bogeyed the last two holes on the final day to miss out on the title.
They famously halved a Ryder Cup match six years later at The Belfry.
"He talked me into giving him a five-footer on the 16th," Azinger told the mail on Sunday. "He said, 'It's over. You guys have won'. So I waived the putt. Then Davis Love ran over and told me the match was still tied. I can't tell you how irritating that was.
"Then, on the 18th, when America had already won, I needed a 10-footer to win the hole and halve the match. Who gave a rat's ass about our match because the result of the Ryder Cup was already decided?
"I went through the motions of preparing for the putt expecting any second for him to tell me to pick the ball up. It would have been the sporting thing to have done and I couldn't believe it when he said nothing. I holed it, and that gave me so much pleasure.
"I guess I've always felt a rivalry with him, probably more than he has with me. I've got to know him better now but it doesn't change what's happened and, come September at Valhalla, something will have to give."
Faldo and Montgomerie used to be Ryder Cup partners, but the Scot now seems likely to miss out after slipping down the world rankings.
"I hope he plays against us, but I'm worried he won't," Azinger told the Mail on Sunday. "He and Faldo don't seem to get along and there's no way Faldo will award him one of his two wild-cards. I love that dude. We're all scared of him when he plays in the Ryder Cup.
"What he's done is amazing. Monty's become famous for it in the United States and he's never even won a major. Americans don't particularly like him but there's nothing wrong in being the villain.
"He's brought a lot of it on himself, of course. He probably won't ever win a major now, but I still want him in the European team because I want to show him what the taste of defeat is like. I've told him this. I also implored him to give me some stuff I shouldn't know about Faldo.
"Faldo will be a loner as a leader: very thorough, but a loner. I've got three assistants with me and, although people have suggested the players don't need them, they must understand that the assistants are for me, not the players."
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The Dixon Riverfront Commission met Tuesday night in Dixon, and among the topics expected to be discussed were two revenue sources and a draft of a grant.
I couldn't cover the meeting, because it was going on at the same time the Dixon City Council was hiring David Nord as the first city administrator.
But I talked to Riverfront Commission Chairman Larry Reed before the meeting. He was set to announce that another round of selling engraved bricks – also known as pavers – along the riverfront was going to begin.
The bricks, depending on size, go for $250, $275 and $325. Each size has a different number of lines of text and characters per line. They can be ordered now through May 16, with nearly 80 percent of the payment going directly to the Riverfront Commission, for maintenance and repairs to equipment, Reed said.
The rest of the price, he said, goes to the cost of having the bricks engraved.
As of Tuesday, $68,458 worth of bricks had been sold during the six previous sales, Reed said, which means about $54,766 to the riverfront.
Reed also planned to update the commission on the Dixon Riverfront branded wine, being sold at Crystal Cork, 219 W. First St. Profits from the moscato wine, much like the engraved bricks, will go to riverfront maintenance.
"This is ideal for the holidays, with wine sales," Reed said. "It's something that we encourage people to do."
So far, proceeds from the $20 branded bottles have contributed about $2,313 to the riverfront, Reed said.
Representatives from the commission recently met with officials from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Reed said, to get feedback on a grant application.
The application draft included a boat ramp that residents could potentially use to commute, via the Rock River, to Dixon's riverfront, Reed said, but that aspect will be removed before the grant is formally submitted.
The grant is designated more for recreational purposes, so the commission's application will include a proposal for a canoe and kayak launch and improvements to make the riverfront more accessible to handicapped and disabled persons.
A boat ramp for transportation will be something the commission will continue to pursue, Reed said, but costs will have to be covered by another funding source.
Sauk Valley Media reporter Matt Mencarini covers government and happenings in Dixon. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 815-284-2224, ext. 229. Follow him on twitter: @MattMencarini.
Office hours
Sauk Valley Media reporter Matt Mencarini will have "office hours" from 1 to 2 p.m. today at Books on First, 202 W. First St.
Feel free to stop by and let him know what's on your mind. Is there a story in Dixon you think should be reported? Stop by to share or just to say hi.
Mencarini covers government and happenings in Dixon. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 815-284-2224, ext. 226. Follow him on Twitter: @MattMencarini.
More information
To buy an engraved paver, go to www.DixonRiverfront.net or call Kay Miller at 815-440-7742.
The Dixon Riverfront Commission meets at 6 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at City Hall, 121 W. Second St., on the second floor in the Council Chambers.


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It's poor english, and the posts on Maemo are event worse. I'd actually think this was a scam unless someone can post a link to a real news source.
The only link I could find (3.00 pm UK) was back to this on
http://press.nokia.com/category/press-release/?tpage=100 [nokia.com]
Well, I'm sure Nokia isn't pleased with reports from analysts saying how Symbian-based phones are still doing better than Microsoft Windows Phone 7/8-based phones...
It's poor english, and the posts on Maemo are event worse.
You mean, all posts from random developers from China are reviewed by someone with a stellar knowledge of English before going live?
It's not something from an official channel, but language alone is not enough to dismiss this. And it's not in Nokia's PR interest to announce things like this prominently. Don't expect any press releases or such.
You mean, all posts from random developers from China are reviewed by someone with a stellar knowledge of English before going live?
No, I don't think that's what he meant at all. Why so quick to jump to the conclusion of racism?
It's pretty clear that he's suggesting that there is something lost in the translation because the source is not a native English speaker.
More and more people today are so willing to just jump right on the "offended:" train, and spout indignation. This is the same sort of nonsense that has led to the world being a general Nanny State, after all God forbid (can I say "God"?) that someone might get their feelings h
No, I don't think that's what he meant at all. Why so quick to jump to the conclusion of racism?
??? Sorry but I fail to see any references to racism either in GP or my post. Or is my knowledge of English that bad? (A dirty Polack here.) The only party I'm offended by is Nokia, may Elop get eaten alive by dire tardigrades.
but language alone is not enough to dismiss this.
Indeed. If it is real, and I don't know if the N9 was jailbroken, but closing the only way for people to legitimately purchase software will only result in more piracy. That will bring on more malware and all the headaches many sides suffer from infected hardware.
Indeed. If it is real, and I don't know if the N9 was jailbroken
The entire point of things like the N900 and presumably the N9 is that you don't have to jailbreak it, it's yours to even boot off a minisd card into a completely different OS if you want to.
Yea, I can't see that getting through the Corp Filters/Marketing for a company like Nokia, unless it's a Google translate.
A "Scam"? Seriously? People with 600+ posts on forums don't post lies for fun, and the 2nd guy replying stating that he got the same email pretty much proves he's not the one getting the email.
I think it's a hoax as well.
Here is the full raw email. http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=KefZru47 [pastebin.com] It clearly shows that the email originated from the Nokia network.
If you look at the name, it's obvious the poster is Finnish, and as Finnish people aren't native English speakers and don't generally use pronouns well, the grammar isn't all that surprising.
Is this somehow related to Jolla Mobile's strategy to launch Sailfish (MeeGo improved since N9's Harmattan MeeGo) mainly in the chinese market? Don't know, just speculation.
I own an N9 and am absolutely convinced it had the opportunity of being the best smartphone ever. On the other hand, I am getting more convinced that Stephen Elop is the world's most idiot CEO for "selling" Nokia almost completely to Microsoft, his ex-employer.
I am getting more convinced that Stephen Elop is the world's most idiot CEO
What do you get when you spell Elop backward [wikipedia.org]?
What do you get when you spell Elop backward?
mod parent up, plz
Are all people living in Poland their own genetic race, too?
You know who thought so? Nazis. That's right Nazi, I've got my eye on you.
Freaking Nazis.
To be fair it's the other way around, Elop was hired just after the all-to-Microsoft decision was taken, most probably to make sure that it's enforced and maybe to make the contact with Microsoft easier. The fact that he was already in the place when it was publicly announced does not mean he took these stupid decisions which were taken months before.
Of course. The board surely knew what they hired Elop for. Its not like you hire someone to run a company and not even ask him what direction he is going to take.
I own an N9 and am absolutely convinced it had the opportunity of being the best smartphone ever.
You mispelled "N900". N9 has no keyboard.
You mispelled "N900". N9 has no keyboard.
An included keyboard is automatic disqualification for best smartphone, since it ads bulk and/or reduces screen size.
You can always add a keyboard to any smartphone for the times when you need one. You can't remove an integrated one when you don't.
Hand in your geek card NOW!
A keyboard is *the* most essential feature *ever*. No respectable geek (or any human with a working brain for that matter) would prefer a shitty touch screen over a real keyboard because of such a ridiculous reason as "it ads [sic] bulk". And nothing takes more screen space away than a fucking *touchscreen* "keyboard".
Ever tried using PuTTY like that? Or a CLI shell? Or to chat over IRC or XMPP?
Seriously: FUCK TOUCHSCREEN "KEYBOARDS"!
And: How the hell do you "add a keyboard"
In general, I'd like to make a 'complain' about this submission's diction and spelling.
This is why I make sure my devices allow 3rd party application stores. I won't buy any hardware or software that overtly allows the sellers to force obsolescence by pulling the plug on the market to make you to buy the new shiny. I learned my lesson with always-connected-to-internet DRM in games. I don't care if it's an iOS, FPS, or MMORPG. If it doesn't support private servers, I will not buy it.
See also: Closed source OSs ending support for updates, and hardware manufacturers not re-compiling drivers for a new OS (should be open sourced, we buy hardware not drivers), or even UEFI secure boot coded to only work on select OSs by name string... I think it's horrible that software creators are adopting the common engineering practice of purposefully shortening life span of the products.
its the people, that demand as little priceas as possible.
if you get a TV for 300€, cou cant expect it to live loger than a TV with the same feature set that costs 1000€.
But buying 300€ products and crying when the lower quality components die is somehow
if you get a TV for 300, cou cant expect it to live loger than a TV with the same feature set that costs 1000.
Assuming there's any difference between the cheaper and more expensive TV.
If that notional TV was a Sony, you might pay 3x the price for something which isn't better.
Cost doesn't always equate to quality nowadays. Just what people are willing to pay -- like Monster Cables.
This is why I make sure my devices allow 3rd party application stores.
Then the N9 would have been just fine for you. http://www.allaboutmeego.com/features/item/13179_N9_FAQ.php#4.15 [allaboutmeego.com]
The only good IDEs in the world are vi and emacs with GNU make. Qt works great with them. The rest are mostly useful as crutches for people who can't document their interfaces, but can tolerate working in one editor window, surrounded by thousand little barnacle-windows with useless lists and references.
Read their Privacy Policy http://www.rovio.com/Privacy [rovio.com] and know that you agree to all
third parties, like Flurry.com (Google analytics), as well as your data being sent out of county.
Astro file manager read the same way,
I had to root for a HOSTS file and firewall.
A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom. -- Parkinson


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Public Administration Program honors Kamuela Enos of Ma'o Organic FarmsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
David Nixon, (808) 956-8260
Acting Director, Public Administration
Acting Director, Public Administration
Posted: Apr 27, 2012
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Public Administration (PUBA) Program presented Kamuela Joseph Nui Enos with the Outstanding Public Service Leadership Award on Friday, April 20, at its alumni reunion and awards event, for his inspiring work at Ma'o Organic Farms.
David Nixon, Acting Director of the Public Administration Program at UH Mānoa, welcomed the crowd of over fifty students and alumni at Andrews Amphitheatre. Entertainment was provided by Kekoa Kaluhiwa, a 2006 PUBA alumnus.
"I've heard Kamuela say many times that Ma'o Farms is raising more than just vegetables - they're raising tomorrow's leaders. That fits perfectly with our program's mission to 'build public service leadership' so it's natural that we would recognize Kamuela and this remarkable organization with our highest award," stated Nixon.
In addition to the Public Service Leadership award, PUBA recognized Representative Roy Takumi by granting him the Distinguished Alumnus Award, inducted twelve students into Pi Alpha Alpha, the Public Administration's National Honor's Society, and named Amanda Sawa as the Outstanding Core Year Student for 2012.


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Working with Indexed Associations
This feature is available from version 2.1 of Doctrine.
Doctrine 2 collections are modelled after PHPs native arrays. PHP arrays are an ordered hashmap, but in
the first version of Doctrine keys retrieved from the database were always numerical unless
was used. Starting with Doctrine 2.1 you can index your collections by a value in the related entity.
This is a first step towards full ordered hashmap support through the Doctrine ORM.
The feature works like an implicit
INDEX BY for the selected association but has several
downsides also:
- You have to manage both the key and field if you want to change the index by field value.
- On each request the keys are regenerated from the field value, and not from the previous collection key.
- Values of the Index-By keys are never considered during persistence. They only exist for accessing purposes.
- Fields that are used for the index by feature HAVE to be unique in the database. The behavior for multiple entities with the same index-by field value is undefined.
As an example we will design a simple stock exchange list view. The domain consists of the entity
Market where each Stock has a symbol and is traded on a single market. Instead of having a numerical
list of stocks traded on a market they will be indexed by their symbol, which is unique across all markets.
Mapping Indexed Associations
You can map indexed associations by adding:
indexByattribute to any
index-byattribute to any
<one-to-many />or
<many-to-many />xml element.
The code and mappings for the Market entity looks like this:
<?php namespace Doctrine\Tests\Models\StockExchange; use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection; use Doctrine\ORM\Annotation as ORM; /** * @ORM\Entity * @ORM\Table(name="exchange_markets") */ class Market { /** * @ORM\Id @ORM\Column(type="integer") @ORM\GeneratedValue * @var int */ private $id; /** * @ORM\Column(type="string") * @var string */ private $name; /** * @ORM\OneToMany(targetEntity="Stock", mappedBy="market", indexBy="symbol") * @var Stock[] */ private $stocks; public function __construct($name) { $this->name = $name; $this->stocks = new ArrayCollection(); } public function getId() { return $this->id; } public function getName() { return $this->name; } public function addStock(Stock $stock) { $this->stocks[$stock->getSymbol()] = $stock; } public function getStock($symbol) { if (!isset($this->stocks[$symbol])) { throw new \InvalidArgumentException("Symbol is not traded on this market."); } return $this->stocks[$symbol]; } public function getStocks() { return $this->stocks->toArray(); } }
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping http://www.doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd"> <entity name="Doctrine\Tests\Models\StockExchange\Market"> <id name="id" type="integer"> <generator strategy="AUTO" /> </id> <field name="name" type="string"/> <one-to-many target-entity="Stock" mapped-by="market" field="stocks" index-by="symbol" /> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
Inside the
addStock() method you can see how we directly set the key of the association to the symbol,
so that we can work with the indexed association directly after invoking
addStock(). Inside
we pick a stock traded on the particular market by symbol. If this stock doesn't exist an exception is thrown.
Stock entity doesn't contain any special instructions that are new, but for completeness
here are the code and mappings for it:
<?php namespace Doctrine\Tests\Models\StockExchange; use Doctrine\ORM\Annotation as ORM; /** * @ORM\Entity * @ORM\Table(name="exchange_stocks") */ class Stock { /** * @ORM\Id @ORM\GeneratedValue @ORM\Column(type="integer") * @var int */ private $id; /** * @ORM\Column(type="string", unique=true) */ private $symbol; /** * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Market", inversedBy="stocks") * @var Market */ private $market; public function __construct($symbol, Market $market) { $this->symbol = $symbol; $this->market = $market; $market->addStock($this); } public function getSymbol() { return $this->symbol; } }
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <doctrine-mapping xmlns="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping http://www.doctrine-project.org/schemas/orm/doctrine-mapping.xsd"> <entity name="Doctrine\Tests\Models\StockExchange\Stock"> <id name="id" type="integer"> <generator strategy="AUTO" /> </id> <field name="symbol" type="string" unique="true" /> <many-to-one target-entity="Market" field="market" inversed-by="stocks" /> </entity> </doctrine-mapping>
Querying indexed associations
Now that we defined the stocks collection to be indexed by symbol, we can take a look at some code that makes use of the indexing.
First we will populate our database with two example stocks traded on a single market:
// $em is the EntityManager
$market = new Market("Some Exchange");
$stock1 = new Stock("AAPL", $market);
$stock2 = new Stock("GOOG", $market);
This code is not particular interesting since the indexing feature is not yet used. In a new request we could now query for the market:
// $em is the EntityManager
$marketId = 1;
$symbol = "AAPL";
$market = $em->find("Doctrine\Tests\Models\StockExchange\Market", $marketId);
// Access the stocks by symbol now:
$stock = $market->getStock($symbol);
echo $stock->getSymbol(); // will print "AAPL"
The implementation of
Market::addStock(), in combination with
indexBy, allows us to access the collection
consistently by the Stock symbol. It does not matter if Stock is managed by Doctrine or not.
The same applies to DQL queries: The
indexBy configuration acts as implicit "INDEX BY" to a join association.
// $em is the EntityManager
$marketId = 1;
$symbol = "AAPL";
$dql = "SELECT m, s FROM Doctrine\Tests\Models\StockExchange\Market m JOIN m.stocks s WHERE m.id = ?1";
$market = $em->createQuery($dql)
->setParameter(1, $marketId)
// Access the stocks by symbol now:
$stock = $market->getStock($symbol);
echo $stock->getSymbol(); // will print "AAPL"
If you want to use
INDEX BY explicitly on an indexed association you are free to do so. Additionally,
indexed associations also work with the
Collection::slice() functionality, even if the association's fetch mode is
LAZY or EXTRA_LAZY.
Outlook into the Future
For the inverse side of a many-to-many associations there will be a way to persist the keys and the order as a third and fourth parameter into the join table. This feature is discussed in DDC-213 This feature cannot be implemented for one-to-many associations, because they are never the owning side.


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Watch Whitney Houston Greet Clive Davis Just Before Her Death [VIDEO]
Whitney Houston has always had a warm relationship with her mentor and champion, Clive Davis. Two nights before her death, cameras caught the late legend greeting the man who made her a star.
In the video, Davis is seated between Brandy and Monica. Houston approaches the trio and offers kisses, hugs and well wishes. Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, is with her. You can actually hear Houston tell Bobbi Kristina, "Go say hi to your godfather."
While Houston came under question and criticism for her "disheveled" appearance during the filming, she had a pretty good reason: she'd just come out of the pool. Radar Online reports, "She had been doing laps daily for exercise. She had been in the pool with Bobbi Kristina and when she got out, someone told her that Clive was upstairs with Monica and Brandy," a source said. "She still had her bathing suit on underneath the cover-up that she was captured on camera wearing."
As you can see in the video, Houston isn't doing anything unusual. "Whitney wasn't dancing around the room, or doing anything bizarre at that time," the source said. "This was in the middle of the day on Thursday. At that time, she appeared to be completely sober. Whitney was absolutely professional during that brief appearance in the room."
Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that Houston didn't have any bad habits at the time. "It was widely known that Whitney had fallen off the wagon and was abusing prescription pills again," the insider revealed. While an official cause of death has yet to be announced, it's anticipated that a deadly cocktail of prescription pills and alcohol is what did the songstress in on Feb. 11, the same day as Davis' annual pre-Grammy party — a party that still went on despite her death.
When Davis came under fire for not canceling the fete, he told reporters, "Whitney would have asked that the music go on. And her family said the show should go on." Houston's private funeral will be held this Saturday, Feb. 18 and will stream live on the Internet.
Watch Whitney Houston Kiss Clive Davis Goodbye


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Before "American Idol" took over Adam Lambert's life, there was "Wicked," not to mention "The Ten Commandments" - yes, a musical version of the sand-and-sandals biblical epic.
The 27-year-old favorite to take the "Idol" crown next Wednesday had a professional musical-theater background before he ever sang for Simon, Paula and the rest of the show's judges.
Lambert did two stints in "Wicked," the mammoth musical prequel to "The Wizard of Oz" - joining the touring company in March 2005 and staying for six months, then opening in the extended Los Angeles production in February 2007 and remaining with the show until October 2008. For both engagements, he was a member of the ensemble and understudied the role of Fieryo, the show's love interest.
Says casting guru, Bernard Telsey, who auditioned Lambert for "Wicked": "Adam was a theater guy. He came in and had that amazing voice or as I like to say 'instrument' because he has this incredible range.
"I literally remember saying, 'Oh my God, this guy has the highest range,'" said Telsey, who has cast such hit Broadway musicals as "Rent," "Hairspray" and the current revival of "South Pacific."
"And you are always looking for ensemble people who have a huge vocal range and vocal power," he said. "In an ensemble of only a handful of voices, you want that kind of a sound. It makes a show feel like there are 20 people in the ensemble as opposed to 10."
At the time, Lambert didn't look David Bowie-esque, Telsey said.
"He didn't look like a rock star. He looked like a normal kid with long hair, wearing jeans and a T-shirt and who had a big rock voice."
What Lisa Leguillou remembers best about Lambert was his fearlessness.
As the associate director of "Wicked" - in charge of keeping the show true to director Joe Mantello's original vision - she said, "I always got a sense that Adam was clear about what he wanted to do.
"He talked about his music a lot with me and what he wanted to do with it in the future. He was clear about that - doing his own stuff, which was rock. And now he's doing it."
And Lambert's singing is effortless, according to Leguillou. "That's what is so shocking. He just opens up his mouth. You never have to worry about him when he is on stage."
In 2004, Lambert made a splash - or at least emerged unscathed - from "The Ten Commandments," a pop-rock opera (starring Val Kilmer as Moses) that had a brief run at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
Reviews for the show were not kind. The New York Times called it "bland, static, overproduced and underdirected." The Los Angeles Times sniffed, "'The Ten Commandments' has the power to leave an epiphany-seeking theatergoer speechless."
Yet Lambert, portraying the slave Joshua, was favorably noticed by both papers, with the New York reviewer even saying the performer was the show's "most consistent crowd-wower."
For those wanting a look at a pre-"Idol" Lambert, his big number from the show - an anguished sob called "Is Anybody Listening?" - can, of course, be found on YouTube, or on a commercially available DVD.http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TV_LAMBERT_PRE_IDOL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-05-17-13-51-42


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PRINCETON, NJ – Second-ranked Johns Hopkins used a 4-1 run to open the fourth quarter to turn a 6-4 lead into a 10-5 advantage and then held off a late-game rally by 12th-ranked Princeton to knock off the Tigers, 10-8, at Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium Friday evening. The win is JHU's fourth straight to open the season, 11th straight in the regular season and third straight against the Tigers at Princeton.
The Blue Jays (4-0) led 6-4 entering the final period, but needed less than nine minutes to turn the two-goal lead into a five-goal advantage and the run was sparked by reserve attackman John Kaestner, who was making his first career start.
Kaestner jump-started the spree with a nifty goal from an impossible angle as he wrapped a shot around the post and Princeton goalie Tyler Fiorito just over two minutes into the final period for his first career goal to make it 7-4.
Princeton's Alex Capretta drew the Tigers to within 7-5 at the 10:04 mark as he stepped down and beat JHU's Pierce Bassett to the far post off a pass from just above the goal line from Mike Grossman, but the Tigers' fate was sealed over the next four minutes as the Blue Jays scored on three straight possessions to go up 10-5.
Sophomore Brandon Benn got free in the high slot and quickly turned and fired one home off Fiorito's thigh 38 seconds after Capretta's goal and Kaestner netted his second of the night 90 seconds later when he came from the side of the goal, took a nice dump pass from John Ranagan and scored from in tight.
Junior Lee Coppersmith added his sixth goal of the season on Hopkins' next possession as junior Zach Palmer's skip pass from the goal line to Fiorito's left found Coppersmith alone and he blew one into the top corner.
Princeton (2-1), as expected, rallied. The Tigers got one back just 38 seconds after Coppersmith's goal as Jeff Froccaro got free in the slot and went low to slip one past Bassett from seven yards out to make it 10-6.
Nearly four minutes, and one big save by Bassett, passed before Princeton would score again as Grossman got free after a long loose ball scramble and scored his only goal of the game with 2:16 remaining. Tom Schreiber worked free of Hopkins' Tucker Durkin on a pick behind the goal and drove top side for his eighth goal of the year with just over a minute to play, but the Blue Jay defense held firm in the final 63 seconds to secure the win.
An extra-man goal by Tucker Shanley opened the scoring for the Tigers early in the first quarter, but Hopkins struck for three goals over the next eight minutes to take a 3-1 lead that they would never relinquish.
A cross-crease pass from Palmer found senior Mark Goodrich alone on the backdoor and he quick-sticked home his second goal of the year and Palmer got top side on his defender and rifled home a shot from six yards out that surprised Fiorito just over three minutes later. When sophomore Rob Guida spun inside his defender and whipped home his third goal of the season three minutes later the Blue Jays had the momentum and the two-goal lead.
Froccaro made it a one-goal game with his first strike of the match with 15 seconds remaining in the second quarter, but that would be the final goal – and shot – for the Tigers in the first half.
Hopkins maintained possession for virtually the entire second quarter and got goals in the final five minutes of the half from junior midfielders John Greeley and Ranagan to carry a 5-2 advantage into the half. The Blue Jays outshot the Tigers 9-0 in the quarter and 19-7 in the first half.
Neither team scored in the first seven minutes of the second half, but Goodrich staked the Blue Jays to a 6-2 advantage when he snapped home a laser to the top corner after a quick move to the inside from eight yards out.
Princeton drew within 6-4 at the end of the third on back-to-back goals by Sonnenfeldt and Mike MacDonald, but Kaestner's goal early in the fourth quarter ignited the decisive run and the Blue Jays pulled out of Princeton with their first 4-0 start since 2005.
Goodrich and Kaestner led the Blue Jays with two goals each, while Palmer added the one goal and a game-high three assists. Bassett totaled nine saves in goal for the Blue Jays, who also won 11-of-21 faceoffs in the game.
Froccaro was the only multi-goal scorer for Princeton as his two tallies led the way. Schreiber and Grossman added one goal and two assists apiece and Fiorito matched Bassett with nine saves.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Tuesday, March 6 when the Blue Jays host Manhattan at 3:30 pm.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 12th Nov 2006 19:59 UTC
"Opera Software chief Jon S. von Tetzchner's Web browser, popular with many hardcore computer users, hasn't taken over the industry. The Norwegian company's browser has been around for 12 years but has just 1.5% of the market. Compared to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, or even Mozilla's Firefox, it barely qualifies as an also-ran. But unlike its competitors Microsoft and Mozilla, Opera is focusing a lot of attention on noncomputer devices: mobile phones, videogame consoles or just about anything else you can stick a screen on."
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RE: To much useless features
by usr0 on Mon 13th Nov 2006 00:22 UTC in reply to "To much useless features"