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© Intel Business | November 28, 2019
Intel's looking to sell its connectivity chips businesses
The US chipmaker is reportedly looking for potential buyers for its connected home division, a business unit providing gateway solutions to connect devices and appliances.
Intel has hired a financial adviser to help the company sell the business unit which has annual sales of about USD 450 million, reports Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. The California-based company declined to comment on Bloombergs information. Bob Swan has, as pointed out by Bloomberg, previously stated that he is looking to explore options for the company in areas where it isn't competitive. Not long ago Intel sold its smartphone modem business to Apple in a USD 1 billion deal.
Digi-Key inks distribution partnership with Siglent Technologies Digi-Key Electronics has expanded its product portfolio by signing a North American distribution partnership with Siglent Technologies, providing its customers with electronic test and measurement solutions.
Jenoptik supplies infrared optics to Rheinmetall The photonics group Jenoptik will supply infrared optical components to Rheinmetall between 2020 and 2025.
Kyoto Semiconductor names new president and CEO As of April 1, 2020, the company has announced that a new management system will begin, with Tsuneo Takahashi set to become its new President and CEO.
Smoltek signs evaluation license agreement with capacitor manufacturer Swedish technology company, Smoltek, says that it has signed an evaluation agreement with an unnamed manufacturer of capacitors.
Pervasive Displays increasing manufacturing capacity e-paper display manufacturer, Pervasive Displays (PDi), says it has made a major advancements in product reliability and manufacturing capacity to improve the automated production of electronic paper displays (EPDs).
Analog Devices prioritises the medical field during pandemic Analog Devices, Inc. has taken a series of actions to support the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic by expediting production of its healthcare technologies that can help fight the outbreak.
Autec Power Systems & New Yorker Electronics inks agreement Autec Power Systems, a provider of custom power supplies, high-efficiency LED Drivers, switching power supplies and power management products, has signed accredited distributor New Yorker Electronics to a new distribution pact.
MagnaChip Semiconductor to sell its foundry business and Fab 4 MagnaChip Semiconductor says that certain of its wholly-owned subsidiaries have entered into a definitive agreement to sell the company's Foundry Services Group and the factory in Cheongju (Fab 4), the larger of the company's two 8" manufacturing facilities.
Singulus Technologies temporarily reduces business operation Against the backdrop of the current situation related to the spread of COVID-19 and the resulting restrictions in private and business lives, Singulus Technologies is implementing short-time work at two of its German sites.
Kyocera to acquire Japan-based Showa Optronics Kyocera Corporation has entered into a share transfer agreement with NEC Corporation on March 25, 2020 to acquire all of NEC's shares in Showa Optronics Co., Ltd., an optical components manufacturer.
Analog Devices withdraws second quarter outlook The economic and social effects caused by COVID-19 are currently creating supply chain disruption and uncertainty around future demand.
Movement control order restricts production for Renesas in Malaysia Due to a Movement Control Order announced by the Malaysian government, Renesas three production sites located in the country temporarily halted productions from March 18, 2020.
TTI remains operational during COVID-19 pandemic TTI, Inc. says it remains open following the guidelines mandated by local and federal governments during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, with precautions in place to safeguard employees' health.
Nokia completes acquisition of Elenion Technologies Nokia says it has completed its acquisition of U.S.-based supplier of silicon photonics technology, Elenion Technologies.
Nexperia CEO Frans Scheper retiring On March 24, 2020, Nexperia announced that CEO Frans Scheper has decided to take early retirement and will step down as Nexperia CEO and Management Board Member per March 25, 2020.
Intellitronix seeing interest from Ford Ohio-based Intellitronix Corporation, a subsidiary of US Lighting Group, has been invited by the Ford Motor Company to submit a proposal to design and manufacture an automotive electronics component for one of the automaker's upcoming vehicles.
NEXT Biometrics receives additional order from government program in India NEXT Biometrics has received an additional order for UIDAI and STQC certified fingerprint biometric readers in India valued at USD 360,000. The customer has provided a 20% upfront payment and the readers have been delivered to the customer.
Elmos is planning short-time work Because of the global corona pandemic, Elmos Semiconductor AG is planning to introduce short-time work of up to 50%.
paragon reacts to production stoppages by carmakers paragon is set to take immediate action in response to moves by automotive manufacturers closing down their plants. The company is now reducing production at its automotive manufacturing sites in Germany to a minimum for the time being.
STMicro to temporarily cut 50% of French production The semiconductor company has reportedly agreed to temporarily reduce its production in France by up to 50% as the company works to stymie the spread of COVID-19.
The Infineon site in Villach is growing Infineon's investment in a new automated chip factory and a research building at its site in Villach is making progress.
Panasonic eyes multi-use potential for PanaCIM Panasonic, in their push more deeply into smart manufacturing solutions, has partnered with MiR and Inovaxe to develop a handy helper: the PanaCIM Solutions Ecosystem.Load more news
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Imagine this: you're at work. You're coughing, tired, dizzy and have a nasty headache on top of that. The thing is, after you leave, you feel better. Why is that? It may not always be that you're just happy to leave the workplace. In fact, those are classic symptoms for Sick Building Syndrome (or SBS). SBS is used to describe situations in which building occupants experience health effects that appear to be linked to time spent inside a building, but no specific cause or illness can be identified. The complaints may be localized in a particular room or may be widespread throughout the building.
According to numerous studies, SBS is an increasing problem in the US and around the world. The main culprit behind SBS is inadequate ventilation, which could also occur if heating, ventilation and HVAC systems do not effectively distribute air in the building. With this problem increasing, and with allergy season in full swing, we can't forget that we have a weapon to fight with – Air Purifiers. Air purifiers will help to reduce the spread of viruses, bacteria and other airborne contaminants that could seriously affect air quality. We have spotlighted two air purifiers that will help you fight off SBS and seasonal allergies.
The Virus Zero Portable Air Purifier (SP-PA4) is a lightweight purifier that neutralizes airborne allergies such as pet dander, tobacco smoke and dust mites. This small and lightweight purifier can sit on a desktop or even fit in your car's cup holder. The Virus Zero Purifier treats up to 231 square feet of space and only uses 4 watts of power.
The 3M Filtrete Air Cleaner Purifier helps to purify the air in your office, by reducing airborne particles such as mold spores and pet dander. The 3M Filtrete Air Cleaner will reduce odor and captures microscopic allergens such as smoke, dust, smog particles and pollen. The 3M Filtrete Air Purifier releases filtered air from the top of the unit to increase air circulation.
With levels of indoor air pollution rising, we cannot underestimate the value of an air purifier. Consider this: air purifiers can also help you obtain a better night's sleep by removing many of the allergens that keep us awake all night with an itchy or sore throat. Who wouldn't want a better night's sleep?

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This is CNN, cont.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to an Oklahoma tornado survivor:
Blitzer: We're happy you're here. You guys did a great job. I guess you got to thank the Lord. Right?
Survivor: Yeah.
Blitzer: Did you thank the Lord for that split-second decision?
Survivor: I -- I'm actually an atheist.
Blitzer: You are. All right. But you made the right call.
Survivor: Yeah. We are here. And you know, I don't blame anybody for thanking the Lord.
Blitzer: Of course not.
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Minted Parsnip Souffle
Elegant parsnip souffles make wonderful use of a root vegetable that is often overlooked. The subtle mint flavor pairs well with a variety of meats. —Catherine Wilkinson, Dewey, Arizona
Total TimePrep: 50 min. Bake: 20 min.
Makes6 servings
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons butter, divided
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour, divided
- 1-1/2 pounds medium parsnips, peeled and sliced
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup half-and-half cream
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh mint
- Separate eggs; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Grease six 8-oz. ramekins with 1 tablespoon butter and dust with 1 tablespoon flour.
- Place the parsnips, onion and water in a large microwave-safe bowl. Cover and microwave on high for 5-7 minutes or until parsnips are tender. Let stand for 5 minutes; drain. Place parsnip mixture and lemon juice in a food processor; cover and process until blended. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, melt remaining butter. Stir in the sugar, remaining flour and salt until blended. Gradually whisk in cream. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Cook and stir 1-2 minutes longer or until thickened. Transfer to a large bowl; stir in mint.
- Stir a small amount of hot mixture into egg yolks; return all to the bowl, stirring constantly. Allow to cool slightly. Stir in parsnip mixture.
- In another bowl with clean beaters, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Stir a fourth of the egg whites into egg yolk mixture until no white streaks remain. Fold in remaining egg whites until combined. Transfer to prepared dishes.
- Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until the tops are puffed and center appears set. Serve immediately.


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Embedding ZIP Files Inside JPG Files Using ColdFusion
A while back, I saw a interesting trick where someone used the MS DOS command, "copy," to hide MP3 files inside of images that they were uploading to Flickr. I thought that idea might be something fun to play around with in ColdFusion. After reading the documentation for the MS DOS copy command, it turns out that the trick they were using was simply appending one binary data to another. In ColdFusion and Java, that's pretty easy to do... but, could that possibly be all that it takes?
To test this from end to end, I am gonna do the following:
- ZIP several files together.
- Embed that ZIP file inside of a JPG image file.
- Read image file.
- Output image file to screen with new format.
- Read ZIP entries out of image and output query.
- Extract one of the ZIP entries and output.
I figure this way, we can see if the ZIP file can, in fact, be embedded in an image. And, if so, can we still use the image file successfully as both an image and a ZIP archive.
Here's the test:
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- <cfset strImageFile = "girl.jpg" />
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- <cfset strNewImageFile = "special_girl.jpg" />
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- <cfset arrFileNames = [
- "DataFile_1.txt",
- "DataFile_2.txt",
- "DataFile_3.txt",
- "Song.mp3"
- ] />
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- <cfzip
- action="zip"
- file="#ExpandPath( './data.zip' )#"
- overwrite="true">
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- <cfloop
- index="strFileName"
- array="#arrFileNames#">
- <cfzipparam
- source="#ExpandPath( './#strFileName#' )#"
- />
- </cfloop>
- </cfzip>
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- <cfset objOutputStream = CreateObject(
- "java",
- "java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream"
- ).Init()
- />
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- <cfloop
- index="strFileName"
- list="#strImageFile#|data.zip"
- delimiters="|">
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- <cffile
- action="readbinary"
- file="#ExpandPath( './#strFileName#' )#"
- variable="binFileData"
- />
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- <cfset objOutputStream.Write(
- binFileData,
- JavaCast( "int", 0 ),
- JavaCast( "int", ArrayLen( binFileData ) )
- ) />
- </cfloop>
-
- <cffile
- action="write"
- file="#ExpandPath( strNewImageFile )#"
- output="#objOutputStream.ToByteArray()#"
- />
-
-

- <cfimage
- action="writetobrowser"
- source="#strNewImageFile#"
- format="png"
- />
-

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- <cfzip
- action="list"
- file="#ExpandPath( strNewImageFile )#"
- name="qEntry"
- />
-
- <cfquery name="qEntry" dbtype="query">
- name,
- size,
- type
- qEntry
- </cfquery>
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- <cfdump
- var="#qEntry#"
- label="#strNewImageFile# w/ Data Zip"
- />
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- <cfzip
- action="unzip"
- file="#ExpandPath( strNewImageFile )#"
- destination="#ExpandPath( './output' )#"
- entrypath="DataFile_1.txt"
- />
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-

- <cfinclude template="./output/DataFile_1.txt" />
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As you can see, I am following the exact outline as above. And, when we run the above code, we get the following screen output:
Holy cow! I can't believe that actually works - and, that it is done so easily. ColdFusion successfully uses the new merged file as a JPG (converting it to a PNG for output) using CFImage; and, ColdFusion's CFZIP tag is able to read all the data entries and extract a given one to disk.
Reader Comments
It's either really cold or...
... or this ColdFusion post is just really really exciting :)
Very clever. :-) Can this be put to a real world use? For example, when I try to email zip files or other non-Office files to certain organisations/clients it's rejected by their filewall, so sending an innocent looking file could be slipped through. (Wouldn't that be like a tojan, something scanners are supposed to detect?)
Even if it got through how would the person at the other end unmerge the files from the email attachment keeping in mind that even if an "unmerge" web app was available on the Internet the resulting downloads would be blocked too. Hmm. AIR can't run CFML on a desktop yet can it?
Well, I guess if the local computer was running CF, then it could call localhost, but it can't run a self-contained instance of CF.
You can actually just rename the file and it works. So, if you saved the special_girl.jpg and renamed it to be "special_girl.zip" and double-clicked it - it would open up as a ZIP file. No need to do anything programmatically.
"The compressed folder is invalid or corrupt". :-( WinRar doesn't like it either.
Did you rename it as .ZIP or a .RAR file? I'll put together a demo video tomorrow, just to demonstrate it, to make sure we're all on the same page.
Renamed to .zip. A demo video? Cool, I like them. :-)


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Remove FTP users from my Web & Classic Hosting account
You can remove specific users' FTP access to your account.
Note: You can only remove additional FTP users. You cannot remove the primary FTP user for your hosting account. Removing an FTP user does not remove their content directory.
- Log in to your GoDaddy account.
- Click Web Hosting.
- Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Manage.
- From the Settings section, click FTP Users.
- Next to the user you want to remove, click Actions, and then select Delete.
- Click OK.


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Brand identity is the core of our business because it represents the greatest marketing communications return on investment for our clients.
Brand identity is more than just names and logos. It is the art and science of using strategies, words and imagery in order to build a favorable perception.
A healthy brand identity process has four stages:
Brand Strategy - establish (or make sure you have in place) a positioning strategy that defines your brand in a way that is highly attractive to your audiences and that differentiates from your competition.
Brand Identity Development - your trade name and logo should single-mindedly reinforce your brand strategy. Adjust or create as necessary. Tag lines and trade dress should undergo the same rigorous scrutiny.
Brand Identity Promotion - every point of contact (packaging, signage, advertising, interactive, etc.) is an opportunity to create consistent and motivating brand impressions. The stronger the brand identity, the greater the impact and efficiency here.
Evaluation - market feedback is indispensable for gauging both the soundness of overall brand strategy and the effectiveness of tactical campaigns. Strong brands learn as much from their missteps as from their successes.
Please contact us if you are interested in exploring how the disciplines of brand identity may help your business.
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Our policy in the Medical Programs Department of the National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) is to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all our educational programs. Anyone presenting or participating in the planning of any NPF CME programs is expected to disclose to the Medical Programs Department any real or apparent affiliation(s) within the past 12 months that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of the continuing medical education program. The intent of this policy is to ensure continuing medical education programs that are free of commercial interests.
The following faculty and planning committee have disclosed the following relationships with commercial interests:
Faculty: Joseph Markenson, M.D.
Speaker: Abbvie, Regeneron, Sanofi, Genzyme
Advisor: Novartis
Planning Committee:
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leave (someone) in the dark (about something)
To keep someone uninformed (about something); to exclude someone from full knowledge or disclosure (of something). The CIA left the president in the dark about the assassination attempt so that if things went sour and came to public light, she could claim plausible deniability. I don't fully trust John to keep our plan a secret, so I think it best that we leave him in the dark for now.


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The team played great and one athlete in particular, Francisco Gallegos Jr. had a stellar performance in game two — a win for Parkway vs. Plymouth in the state tournament. He pitched the entire game, hit a more than 200-foot and over the fence homerun, had two doubles, a walk and three RBIs. (photos courtesy of Shannon Tesser)
The Parkway Little League 10U All Stars are state champs. The success started earlier this summer, with the team winning the District 2 Championship — while going undefeated in the tournament — on July 17 against Shoreview.
Ron Adams
The Kuenkel Field press box was officially named after coach Ron Adams on June 29 for his 32 years of serving the community as a baseball coach.
Solomon Gustavo photo • St. Anthony Village High School baseball coach Troy Urdahl recorded his 300th career win at Palm Field May 31, when the Huskies beat St. Paul Como Park 10-0.
On a picturesque day at St. Anthony Village High School's Palm Field, the weather finally delivered summer heat like a rusty pitcher, and the only clouds in the blue sky were fluffy, and the varsity baseball team beat St. Paul Como Park 10-0.
Solomon Gustavo photo • Johnson and softball player Scott Ranfranz chatted before the game — Johnson said the idea of the her, the mayor, throwing out the first pitch started as a joke, but then she decided it would be a fun thing to do.
"Two weeks ago, it was a blizzard," said New Brighton Mayor Val Johnson the evening of May 1 as she walked toward the backstop at Freedom Park in New Brighton to throw the ceremonial first pitch for a city-run men's softball league.
With 15 Seniors on the roster and nine returning senior starters, St. Anthony Village High School baseball team members were hoping to get off to a good start this spring, and they certainly have.
The Roseville Raiders 13UAAA baseball team won the Gopher State Tournament of Champions held in Rochester July 21-23.
The Gopher State Tournament of Champions AAA state baseball tournament was July 21-23 in Rochester and the Roseville Raiders 13UAAA team came out on top.
Since suffering through a two-win season a few years ago, the Irondale High School boys basketball team has slowly increased its number of victories each season.
The Mounds View High School boys basketball team enters the 2016-17 season having posted winning records the previous three seasons. Last year's squad went 22-7 and advanced to the section final.
After winning only two of its first 14 games a season ago, the St. Anthony Village High School girls basketball team went 8-3 over its final 11 regular-season games.
With a young lineup, the Mounds View High School girls basketball team struggled after a fast start to the season a year ago. A good number of those players are back this season and that has the Mustangs looking for a turnaround.
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Are you forgot your Kyocera mobile password? Do you want to reset your PIN? Or Do you want to unlock your android mobile?
Here is the best solution for it.
There are only a few solutions for recover password. If you don't want your personal data, You can Reset your mobile easily.
Please note that Factory Reset deletes all your mobile data permanently. You can not recover it later.
You need some basic knowledge about Hard reset. So read Things To Consider Before Hard Reset Your Mobile. These points will help you to unlock your locked mobile Easily.
Kyocera Urbano L02 Hard Reset – Recovery Mode
Hard reset deletes all your mobile data. So you need to Backup Android Data before a reset.
- Turn off your phone.
- Next Press and Hold
- Volume Up + Power button (or)
- Home button + Volume Up + Power button (or)
- Volume Down + Power button (or)
- Volume Up + Volume Down + Power button
- Until you will see Android reboot menu.
- Then select option: "wipe data/factory reset" using Volume Down, and Power button to confirm the operation.
- After that choose option "yes" with Volume Down, to select and Power button to accept.
- After that press Power button to enter option "reboot system now".
- Success. Format done on your mobile.
After Hard reset, you can Restore Android Data.
How to factory Reset Kyocera Urbano L02
Factory data reset will erase all your data. So you need to Backup Android Data before a reset. To perform a device factory data reset using the Settings menu, follow Below Simple steps:
- Open the Settings menu, On your mobile device.
- Then, Under " Personal " touch Backup & reset Option. Enter password or PIN or pattern, If it will ask.
- If you can not see Backup & Reset, try to find Reset option in your settings.
- Then, Under "Personal data," touch Factory data reset Option.
- Next, read the information on the screen and touch Reset phone option.
- If you have a screen or pattern lock, you will need to enter your PIN, pattern, or password.
- Then after, When prompted, touch Erase everything Option to erase or delete all data from your mobile device's internal storage.
- Finally, When your device has finished formatting, select the option to reboot your device.
- Factory reset done on your Device.
After Factory reset, you can Restore Android Data.
Kyocera Urbano L02 PIN or Pattern Unlock:
Using a Google security question to reset password (Unlock PIN)
In order to reset the lock screen pattern with the help of your Google security questions, you must have an active Internet connection on your mobile device. This Password reset method only works's on Kyocera android devices.
- After a number of failed attempts done on your Kyocera mobile to unlock the device, tap Forgot pattern ?.
- Tap Answer question.
- Type the google security answer, then tap Unlock.
- If it shows Yes or No, Tap Yes if you want to create a new unlock pattern (PIN) or Tap No if you don't want to use a screen lock.
Using your primary Gmail account to unlock the screen pattern
This reset method only works's on Android devices. You can reset the password (Pattern) using your primary Google account. you must have an active Internet connection on your device to reset your password.
- After you have entered the wrong unlock pattern 5 times, wait above 30 seconds, then tap Forgot pattern ?.
- Sign in using your primary Google account (Gmail account) username and password.
- Draw a new unlock pattern or type password, then tap Continue.
- Again Draw the new unlock pattern or type password and tap Continue.
Important Info: If you forgot your Google account (Gmail) username and password, you can recover using the Google Account Recovery page. Follow link Google Account Recovery for Android.
Contact Kyocera Customer Services to Getting Password
If you can not solve your problem, please contact Kyocera Customer Services.
General Questions & Answers
1) Is it possible to recover my Kyocera mobile password?
A) Yes
2) Will I recover my data after Factory reset?
A) No
3) Is there any Reset button available for Hard reset?
A) No
4) What to do, When I get No Command prompt?
A) Please contact customer service.


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Jennifer Aniston has spent her birthday dining out with best friend Courteney Cox while fiance Justin Theroux stayed in New York.
The actress marked her 45th birthday with former Friends co-star Courteney at Soho House in Los Angeles, alongside Tobey Maguire's wife Jennifer Meyer and Jen's hairstylist Chris McMillan, E! News reported.
While there has been speculation about their engagement in the past, it appeared that there was an innocent explanation for Justin, 42, missing his fiancee's big day.
The actor is working on his new HBO show The Leftovers in New York and was seen filming on set before he attended a fashion event in the city.
Jennifer, who was previously married to Brad Pitt, joked about the interest in her personal life during a Q&A about women's issues with feminist and activist Gloria Steinem earlier this week, The Huffington Post reported .
"I know you've come up against this, and I certainly have too - where being a woman and our value and our worth is basically associated with our marital status or whether or not we have procreated," she was quoted her as saying.
"Well, I guess we're in deep s***," Gloria, 80, who has no children, replied.
"That's what I thought . Just wanted to make sure that was the case. That we are, in fact, in deep s***!" Jen said.
Jen and Justin got engaged in August 2012, on his 41st birthday.


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- 1. Please Reelect Jared Taylor for Gilbert Town Council
(Gilbert Watch welcomes this guest letter by Jared Taylor, who is currently serving as the Vice Mayor in Gilbert. He has lived in Gilbert since 1996 with his wife and three daughters.)
Over the last few years, Gilbert has been showered in recognitions. I'm running for re-election to build on our strengths, address our challenges, and keep Gilbert the best place to grow a family and build a business.
Here are a few of the recognitions our wonderful residents and Town have earned: 22nd Best Place to Live (Money Magazine, 2014); 2nd Safest City in the US (Law Street Media, 2016); Best City for Raising a Family (Move.org, 2016); 7th Happiest City in America (Zippia, 2016), and Top 5 Safest Cities to Build Your Startup (Tech.Co, 2016).
We couldn't live in a better place at a better time. Who would have thought that Gilbert would have grown from "The Hay Capitol of the World" to one of the most successful cities or towns in the US?
My appreciation goes to the many wonderful residents and Town leaders who have made Gilbert so great.
While we have had tremendous success, we continue to need strong leadership to address the challenges we face.
Over the last few decades, a large part of Gilbert's budget has come from construction sales taxes.Click here to read more
- 2. Gilbert Watch Primary Voting Recommendations: August 30, 2016
As you complete your Primary ballot, please consider the following candidates for offices all the way from United States Senate to Town Council. Time hasn't allowed for the vetting of every office throughout the state. The suggestions you see here are based on voting patterns, leadership, and commitment to constitutional, conservative ideals.Click here to read more
- 3. Jenn Daniels Raises Gilbert Taxes in Second Meeting as Mayor
On August 9, 2016, the Gilbert Town Council voted to increase taxes this year by $1.5 million dollars. It seems that, since former Mayor John Lewis and Council Members Eddie Cook, Jenn Daniels, and Jordan Ray earned a "Hero of Big Government" ranking from Americans for Prosperity in 2015, the trend continues. Council members are spinning and denying it's a tax increase!
According to Mayor Jenn Daniels: "In light of the incredible misinformation that is being disseminated on Facebook and other forums, I would like to set the record straight: YOUR TAXES DID NOT GO UP by our vote last night or any other vote by our current Town Council."
The Arizona Tax Research Association (ATRA) called it a tax increase, as did the Town of Gilbert website!
"In a split vote, the Town of Gilbert elected to raise its secondary property tax for FY17 from a rate of $1.0567 to $1.0609. This results in a tax levy increase of approximately $1.5 million. Surprisingly, some council members attempted to argue the tax rate and levy increase wasn't a tax increase at all. For town leaders to suggest this is not a tax increase is simple obfuscation.
"In actuality, the rate should have decreased substantially this year if they accounted for what property taxpayers have already paid. For cities and towns, the secondary property tax is used exclusively for the repayment of voter-approved bonds. The estimated debt service schedule in this year is $22.7 million. The town has previously over-collected nearly $15 million for this purpose. This money is not a rainy day fund and cannot be used for any other purpose. The town voted to use just 12% of this overpayment account ($1.7 million) to pay for debt service in FY17. It is regrettable the town elected to increase taxes while it earns interest on past over-collections which sit in the bank. Taxpayers must pay the debt-service on bonds, but they first ought to be credited for what they have already paid. At a minimum, Gilbert owes a specific plan to its taxpayers to credit them back for what they have previously overpaid. There is no financial justification to stockpile a massive sum as taxpayers are constitutionally obliged to repay the debt service on voter-approved debt each year via the property tax, making it an incredibly reliable and secure debt-instrument."
Town of Gilbert website: "Proposed New and Increased Taxes or Fees"
The tax hike passed 4-2. Here is the vote:
- 4. Voting - Heads or Tails?
If you haven't been introduced to GilbertPolitics.com, I urge you to get acquainted. This blog is published and thoughtfully written by concerned citizen and constitutional conservative Travis Dutson. He unapologetically states, "Yes, I'm opinionated." Please take advantage of his carefully studied, respectful opinions. In his most recent post titled Voting - Heads or Tails, Mr. Dutson provides insight into why he has chosen to support certain candidates, including those running for U.S. Senate, Congressional CD5, LD12 Arizona Senate and House, and Gilbert Town Council.
We enjoy our liberties because of people like Travis Dutson who fights to protect them! As you read his article, be sure to click on the link and read the Comments, which are equally enlightening. Enjoy!Click here to read more
- 5. Meet The Candidates! Andy Biggs, Warren Petersen, Eddie Farnsworth, Travis Grantham, Jake Hoffman
Please attend a Meet the Candidates event on Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Hosted by Rick & Jacque Gurney and Frank & Tricia Groe. To request the address, please RSVP firstname.lastname@example.com.
Senator Andy Biggs is running for Congressional District 5 U.S. House of Representatives.
Rep. Warren Petersen is running for the Arizona Senate in Legislative District 12.
Rep. Eddie Farnsworth is running for the Arizona House of Representatives in Legislative 12.
Travis Grantham is running for the Arizona House of Representatives in Legislative District 12.
Jake Hoffman is running for Queen Creek Town Council
See below for a few articles and endorsements relating to these great conservative candidates.Click here to read more
- 6. Times Are Changing in Gilbert, and Not for the Better
Gilbert citizen Gary Livacari has been watching the Gilbert Town Council for some time and has written a great article which was recently published in both the Arizona Coalition of Conservative Voters titled Are Times Changing in Gilbert? as well as in AZ Central's My Turn, titled Gilbert must limit government.
It seems that, since earning a "Hero of Big Government" ranking from Americans for Prosperity in 2015, Mayor John Lewis and Council Members Eddie Cook, Jenn Daniels, and Jordan Ray continue expanding government. Follows is a chart which depicts the upward budget climb since 2014. It has nearly doubled from $447 Million to $850 Million.Click here to read more
- 7. Here we Go Again! Gilbert Raising Taxes, Expanding Government: June 23 @ 7pm
A Message from Ms. Christine Accurso
Here we go again!
The Town of Gilbert is getting ready to raise our taxes and expand the size of government at the next council meeting! Our taxes were already raised considerably by the school districts override and bonds. We don't need another tax increase!
After reading through the 2,983 page agenda packet, I noticed there are 10 agenda items this Thursday, June 23, that are jam packed full of budget increases, expansion of government and a tax rate increase. What happened to our "conservative" elected officials? Join me in watching, either in person or live online, who votes for these items. (Items # 4, 9a, 14, 20, 21, 25, 26, 31, 32 & 33). Click HERE to watch the meeting live.
Here are a few items to note:Click here to read more
- 8. Gilbert Wellness & Resources Center Proposal - One Resident's Opinion
It is concerning that the Town of Gilbert wants to get into a public/private partnership to offer healthcare. The proposal before the town council clearly states that one of the private agencies would "act as the lead agency and the Town's management organization for daily operations for the facility." The organizational chart has the Town of Gilbert at the top with all the private entities underneath. This isn't just a matter of the town paying for the building and letting other private entities use it, it is actually a partnership.Click here to read more
- 9. God Bless America Musical Tribute in Gilbert: June 28
It is time to celebrate freedom!
Mayor Lewis invites you to attend a Community Patriotic Music Program in celebration of Independence Day. This musical program will be presented on Sunday, June 28, at the Mission Community Church located at 4450 East Elliot Road in Gilbert.Click here to read more
- 10. Gilbert's Plan to Confiscate and Redistribute More of Your Family's Hard Earned Money
In a previous post, I noted that 5 of 7 Gilbert Council members earned themselves the rank of Heroes of Big Government by AFP-Arizona. Thursday night, they plan to reduce your individual liberty and prosperity even more by: 1) Confiscating more of your family's resources by raising your Secondary Property tax rate; and 2) Using tax dollars to join a "collective" effort to build the Gilbert Wellness & Resource Center, which will offer free and reduced services.
These 5 Council members will make it all sound very reasonable and "charitable." It would be, if they were using their own money, or if they encouraged you to give from your personal resources. But their idea of charity is stealing from you and giving it to someone else.Click here to read more
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Öreg-tavi Nagy Halászfesztivál Tata
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Idén ősszel újra a gasztronómiáé a főszerep a tatai Öreg-tó partján. Az Öreg-tavi Nagy Halászfesztivált 2017 október 20-22. között rendezik meg a Kastélytéren.
Traditional natural healing - preparations of animal origine
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Animals accompanied man from time immemorial and next to the means of vegetable and mineral to the healing of the applied means of the animal, which had various ways of use. From the consumption of raw animal organs, through the ways of extraction of various substances from animals until after the use of waste, bones, horns etc Another option was to healing based on some of the animal characteristics and capabilities of the (blood sucking). Part of folk medicine has been as animals domestic and wild.
Traditional natural healing - preparations of mineral origin
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Preparation of mineral origine played in traditional natural healing important role. Some of this preparations are a part of contemporary official medicine today. Most important in legacy of our ancestors is watter (ordinary or holy), various kinds of sand or clay, some of industrial products (paraffin, glycerine), lime or lead. Using of preparations of mineral origin was connected with many of magic practices, important were objects with mysterios origine (thunderstone) or originate from man or animal (gall bladder stone).
Tobacco in the Folk Culture
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Tobacco is name of plant (Nicotiana) and product, which is produced from tobacco leaves and used for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars or filling pipes. Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine, which causes change of human perception. Origine of tobacco is in America (the Mayas), in the Europe came during the 16th century. In 18th and 19th century presented tobacco in the folk culture.
House of Bohemian Forest (Šumava)
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House of Bohemian Forest is a subtype of House of Southwest Bohemia, which is extended in Bohemian Forest (Šumava) and in surroundings (Pošumaví), in some places in Novohradské Mountains too. In the 18th century was this kind of house mostly timbered, during the 19th century than brick, often with decoration of gable wall.
Pilsen House
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Pilsen House is separated type of traditional architecture of Plzeň and surroundings. Older houses are single storey, timbered, houses from 19th century are mostly bricks. This kind of houses is characterized by baroque and classicist forms of front facade. In some regions can we find influences of traditional architecture of neighbour region (halftimbered constructions etc.).
House of Chodsko
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House of Chodsko is kind of traditional architecture, subtype of House of Southwest Bohemia, named after ethnographic region Chodsko witch is situated between Bohemian Forest (Šumava) and Czech Forest (Český les).
House of Southwest Bohemia
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House of Southwest Bohemia is separated type of traditional czech architecture, which contained three local subtypes: House of Bohemian Forest (Šumava), House of Chodsko and Pilsen House. House of Southwest Bohemia can we find in contemporary Region of Plzeň and partial in Jihočeský Region.
The Main Year Event in the Open-Air Museum Rogatec – "Likof na taberhi"
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The Likof na taberhi is the main event in the Open-air museum Rogatec. The main part of the event is the presentation of annual farm tasks, e.g. mowing grass, threshing with a flail and cow-drawn whim, log sawing and washing at the well.
Dnevi teric/Days of women scutching flax
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"Dan teric/Days of women scutching flax" is the event with ethnographic presentations of the linen processing which also educates people about local history. During the event processing of linen is shown; it is performed by the locals wearing traditional costumes.
Setting up a Giant "Butarica" (Palm Sunday Bundle) at Janče
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Tradition of making paper flowers in the Janče area dates back to at least the 2nd half of the 19th century. When people started to decorate Palm Sunday bundles with the flowers is not known, but it has been a common practice as far as local memory goes.
Baďan – Podsitnianske Days of Plenty
The village of Baďan is situated in Central Slovakia in the Banská Štiavnica district. Podsitnianske Days of Plenty is an event that connects several villages of the microregion.
The Grape Harvest Festival in Sebechleby
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The village of Sebechleby is located in Central Slovakia in the Krupina district. The wine-making village architecture constists of stone or wooden houses raised on top of traditional tuff cellars.
The Carnival in Podlavice
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Podlavice, originally a small village, is now a neighbourhood of the city of Banská Bystrica with a predominantly concrete "socialist" achitecture, and partly also remaining rural architecture. Local Civic Committee Podlavice-Skubín and Pensioners Club Dúbrava are active organisers of events inspired by local folk culture traditions that are held in the local House of Culture. The Carnival festival with all segments of traditional ceremony is one of the most popular of all events. In addition, traditional pig-slaughtering, cibuľačka – onion meals cooking or traditional sledge competition (krňačky) are also annually organised.
Emmaus Ritual in Bóly – Folk Tradition of Easter Monday
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The Easter Monday Emmaus Ritual is an over a 100-year-old ethnic German tradition with a biblical theme still actively practiced in the small town of Bóly (Baranya County) in the southern part of Hungary.
The Pentecostal Church Decorating in Mende
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In Mende, eight poplar trees decorated with ribbons, embroidered and crocheted scarves are erected in the central aisle of the church for the Pentecost. The church service takes place with the congregation under the decorated trees. The three-day celebration was originally part of the local ethnic Slovak community's traditions but the non-Slovak Catholics and Lutherans in Mende and the surrounding villages also participate. The custom has been inscribed on the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Hungary in 2011.
"Tikverőzés" Ritual in Moha – Masked Carnival Tradition
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The Chicken-hitting tradition is connected to the last day of the Carnival season, also known as Shrove Tuesday. Young men in the village of Moha (in Fejér County, west-central Hungary) gather together, put on traditional masks and costumes, and proceed from house to house soliciting donations of food.
Busó Festivities at Mohács: Masked End-of-Winter Carnival Custom
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The busó [boosho] festivities at Mohács are an end-of-winter custom performed by persons in special masks as a ritual aiming to expel winter. The main features are the busós – frightening-looking figures wearing wooden masks and big woolly cloaks. This line of events, now a festival of national renown, includes a parade accompanied by dance and music attracting the entire population of the city, the busó groups, the craftsmen/women who created the masks and other accessories as well as musicians and dancers. These traditional festivities have been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the UNESCO in 2009.
Folk Christmas
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Ethnographic event held throughout the Advent and Christmas in the area of open –air museum in Přerov nad Labem. The event is accompanied by thematic exhibitions devoted to folk customs related to Christmas and Advent time in rural culture of the central river Labe basin region.
The Old Town Easter Fair
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One of the most visited events of the year in Prague. History of the event reaches to times before the Communist era. The market mainly presents handcrafted goods, all types of Easter-related food and drink, as well as examples of the old customs of a traditional Czech Easter. The offered goods and presented activities are, nevertheless, not always directly associated with Easter traditions; plenty of items offered here, for the commercial focus of the event, are more consumption oriented, and therefore often distant from the traditional Czech Easter.
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A chemoreceptor, also known as chemosensor, is a sensory receptor that transduces a chemical signal into an action potential. In more general terms, a chemosensor detects certain chemical stimuli in the environment.
There are two main classes of the chemosensor: direct and distance.
- Examples of distance chemoreceptors are:
- olfactory receptor neurons in the olfactory system: Olfaction involves the ability to detect chemicals in the gaseous state. In vertebrates, the olfactory system detects odorants and pheromones in the nasal cavity. Within the olfactory system there are two anatomically distinct organs: the main olfactory epithelium (MOE) and the vomeronasal organ(VNO). It was initially thought that the MOE is responsible for the detection of odorants, while the VNO detects pheromones. The current view, however, is that both systems can detect odorants and pheromones.[1] Olfaction in invertebrates differs from olfaction in vertebrates. For example, in insects, olfactory sensilla are present on their antennae.[2]
- Examples of direct chemoreceptors include:
- Taste buds in the gustatory system: The primary use of gustation as a type of chemoreception is for the detection of tasteants. Aqueous chemical compounds come into contact with chemoreceptors in the mouth, such as taste buds on the tongue, and trigger responses. These chemical compounds can either trigger an appetitive response for nutrients, or a defensive response against toxins depending on which receptors fire. Fish and crustaceans, who are constantly in an aqueous environment, use their gustatory system to identify certain chemicals in the mixture for the purpose of localization and ingestion of food.
- Insects use contact chemoreception to recognize certain chemicals such as cuticular hydrocarbons and chemicals specific to host plants. Contact chemoreception is more commonly seen in insects but is also involved in the mating behavior of some vertebrates. The contact chemoreceptor is specific to one type of chemical.[2]
Sensory Organs
- Olfaction: In vertebrates, olfaction occurs in the Nose. Volatile chemical stimuli enter the nose and eventually reach the olfactory cleft (where the main olfactory epithelium is located). Embedded in the olfactory epithelium are three types of cells: supporting, basal, and olfactory sensory neurons (OSN's). While all three types of cells are integral to the olfactory pathway, only OSN cells make contact with the stimulus. After the stimulus is received by the cilia protruding from the OSNs, the signal activates an action potential which then travels through the bony cribiform plate to the glomeruli within the olfactory bulb. While the proximity of the olfactory cleft to the brain is close, the signals are often slow to illicit response and often require numerous molecules to trigger the corresponding action potential. In insects, antennae act as distance chemoreceptors. For example, antennae on moths are made up of long feathery hairs that increase sensory surface area. Each long hair from the main antenna also has smaller sensilla that are used for volatile olfaction.[3] Since moths are mainly nocturnal animals, the development of greater olfaction aids them in navigating the night.
- Gustation: In many vertebrates, the tongue serves as the primary gustatory sensory organ. As a muscle located in the mouth, it acts to manipulate and discern the composition of food in the initial stages of digestion. The tongue is rich in vasculature, allowing the chemoreceptors located on the top surface of the organ to transmit sensory information to the brain. Salivary glands in the mouth allow for molecules to reach chemoreceptors in an aqueous solution. The chemoreceptors of the tongue fall into two distinct superfamilies of G protein-coupled receptors. GPCR's are intramembrane proteins than bind to an extracellular ligand- in this case chemicals from food- and begin a diverse array of signaling cascades that can result in an action potential registering as input in an organism's brain. Large quantities of chemoreceptors with discrete ligand-binding domains provide for the five basic tastes: sour, salty, bitter, sweet, and savory. The salty and sour tastes work directly through the ion channels, the sweet and bitter taste work through G protein-coupled receptors, and the savory sensation is activated by glutamate.
- Contact Chemoreception: Contact chemoreception is dependent on the physical contact of the receptor with the stimulus. The receptors are short hairs or cones that have a single pore at, or close to the tip of the projection. They are known as uniporous receptors. Some receptors are flexible, while others are rigid and do not bend with contact. They are mostly found in the mouthparts, but can also occur on the antennae or legs of some insects. There is a collection of dendrites located near the pores of the receptors, yet the distribution of these dendrites changes depending on the organism being examined. The method of transduction of the signal from the dendrites differs depending on the organism and the chemical it is responding to.
- Cellular antennae: Within the biological and medical disciplines, recent discoveries have noted that primary cilia in many types of cells within eukaryotes serve as cellular antennae. These cilia play important roles in chemosensation. The current scientific understanding of primary cilia organelles views them as "sensory cellular antennae that coordinate a large number of cellular signaling pathways, sometimes coupling the signaling to ciliary motility or alternatively to cell division and differentiation."[4]
When inputs from the environment are significant to the survival of the organism, the input must be detected. As all life processes are ultimately based on chemistry it is natural that detection and passing on of the external input will involve chemical events. The chemistry of the environment is, of course, relevant to survival, and detection of chemical input from the outside may well articulate directly with cell chemicals.
Chemoreception is important for the detection of food, habitat, conspecifics including mates, and predators. For example, the emissions of a predator's food source, such as odors or pheromones, may be in the air or on a surface where the food source has been. Cells in the head, usually the air passages or mouth, have chemical receptors on their surface that change when in contact with the emissions. It passes in either chemical or electrochemical form to the central processor, the brain or spinal cord. The resulting output from the CNS (central nervous system) makes body actions that will engage the food and enhance survival.
In Physiology
- Carotid bodies and aortic bodies detect changes primarily in oxygen. They also sense increases in CO2 partial pressure and decreases in arterial pH, but to a lesser degree than for O2.
- The chemoreceptor trigger zone is an area of the medulla in the brain that receives inputs from blood-borne drugs or hormones, and communicates with the vomiting center to induce vomiting.
Control of Breathing
Particular chemoreceptors, called ASICs, detect the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood. To do this, they monitor the concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood, which decrease the pH of the blood. This can be a direct consequence of an increase in carbon dioxide concentration, because aqueous carbon dioxide in the presence of carbonic anhydrase reacts to form a proton and a bicarbonate ion.
The response is that the respiratory centre (in the medulla), sends nervous impulses to the external intercostal muscles and the diaphragm, via the intercostal nerve and the phrenic nerve, respectively, to increase breathing rate and the volume of the lungs during inhalation.
Chemoreceptors that regulate the depth and rhythm of breathing are broken down into two categories.
- central chemoreceptors are located on the ventrolateral surface of medulla oblongata and detect changes in pH of cerebrospinal fluid. They have also been shown experimentally to respond to hypercapnic hypoxia (elevated CO2, decreased O2), and eventually desensitize . These are sensitive to pH and CO2.
- peripheral chemoreceptors: consists of aortic and carotid bodies. Aortic body detects changes in blood oxygen and carbon dioxide, but not pH, while carotid body detects all three. They do not desensitize. Their effect on breathing rate is less than that of the central chemoreceptors.
Heart rate
The response to stimulation of chemoreceptors on the heart rate is complicated. Stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors directly activates the medullary vagal center and slows the heart rate. However, a number of other factors are usually at play in this situation which obscure this response. These factors include activation of stretch receptors due to increased ventilation and the release of circulating catecholamines. Hence, although the stimulation of peripheral chemoreceptors causes bradycardia, this may not be the net result.[5]
See also
- Cell surface receptor
- Chemosensory clusters
- Chemoreceptor trigger zone
- Diffuse chemosensory system
- Haptic technology
- Molecular sensor
- Odor
- Olfaction
- Solitary chemosensory cells
- Sensory receptor
- Taste
- Vomeronasal organ
- ↑ Shi, P.; Zhang, J. (2009). "Extraordinary Diversity of Chemosensory Receptor Gene Repertoires Among Vertebrates". Chemosensory Systems in Mammals, Fishes, and Insects. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation. 47. pp. 57–75. doi:10.1007/400_2008_4. ISBN 978-3-540-69918-7.
- 1 2 Chapman RF (1998) "Chemoreception" in The Insects: structure and function 4th edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 639.
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55976/[]
- ↑ Satir, Peter; Christensen, Søren T. (2008). "Structure and function of mammalian cilia". Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 129 (6): 687–93. doi:10.1007/s00418-008-0416-9. PMC 2386530. PMID 18365235.
- ↑ Levy, MN; AJ Pappano (2007). Cardiovascular Physiology 9ed. Philadelphia USA: Elsevier. pp. 89–91.
External links
|Wikisource has the text of a 1920 Encyclopedia Americana article about Chemoreceptor.
- Chemoreceptors at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)


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There has been plenty of well-deserved hoopla around continuations for web interaction. Navigating a website is a great deal like operating on a program's continuations. A page generated from a server-side program contains references to a number of program continuations in its links and forms. Clicking a link or submitting a form invokes the captured continuation which the server then executes. The result is yet another set of continuations on the resulting page, ad infinitum.
Unfortunately, most continuation frameworks are designed around server-side continuations, where the continuations are saved on the server, and the client receives only a secure token naming the continuation. The Waterken server is a particularly beautiful example of this for Java. Awhile ago I ported an older version of the Waterken server to ASP.NET. Here is a public continuation for the comments page, and embedded in the comments page is the editing authority, which is an unguessable capability URL for the continuation to edit the comments page.
The Waterken "web-calculus" is actually a full blown persistent, distributed object system with a binding for the web.
However, maintaining persistent server-side state significantly complicates many aspects of web systems. It makes load balancing servers difficult, and persistent continuations are single threaded so only one invocation can proceed at a time which hurts scalability. Furthermore, if the continuations are persistent, as they are in Waterken which provides orthogonal persistence, then we must also contend with schema upgrade.
Two recent articles prompted me to re-examine these issues and devise a solution. First, Tommy McGuire posted a link to his "Infernal Device" paper on LtU. His paper describes a set of structures which can be used to develop an application by reifying the application's states as transitions in a finite state machine. The Transition objects are essentially application-specific partial continuations. The paper also details all of the different storage available in a browser, and how it can be exploited by a server to save state on the client.
For page-local state, the browser URL can hold up to 2kB on IE (other browsers can store more), and we have embedded form fields for POST requests. For site-local state, we have cookies which can be in the multi-kB size.
Then I came across this blog post about scaling Seaside by reducing the need to capture server-side state. The best way to optimize expensive operations is by avoiding them completely!
However, much program state does not need to reside on the server. We can capture a limited set of program state in the browser itself. In essence, we serialize the program continuation in the browser's URL or in its form fields. We also encrypt the serialized form to maintain integrity.
And so our program continuations have become mobile objects that migrate between client and server and can survive server restarts as long as any server state the continuations access also survives restart. A set of load balanced machines need only share the encryption keys, and user requests seamlessly migrate between them.
I've created a small library for mobile continuations written in C#. I also provide an IHttpHandler for use with ASP.NET. A web application using this library doesn't need to use any web controls or .aspx pages. An application is structured as a set of continuations which implement two operations: Show, and Apply. Show outputs the continuation via display-independent set of interfaces. Apply is invoked when a continuation receives a POST request. It takes a NameValueCollection containing all of the form's fields. This takes the place of a continuation's named arguments. I could implement a more elaborate system as found in the Waterken server where the fields are implicitly typed and named, but I felt a more limited scope is preferable for the time being.
By convention, continuations in the research literature are generally named "k", so the continuation interface is named K. This simple HelloWorld class implements the K interface and it embeds a continuation to an Adder object in its display:
public struct HelloWorld : K
public void Show(IWindow v)
v.Title("Hello world!");
public void Show(IBody v)
v.Const("Hello", "Hello world!");
v.Promise("Adder", new Adder());
public void Show(IInput v)
public K Apply(NameValueCollection args)
return this;
The Adder class is equally simple, consisting of a text input and a submit button. This continuation builds a form which submits to itself. When applying the continuation, it adds its currently stored value to the value specified in the form and returns a new instance of Adder with the stored value.
public struct Adder : KThe library also provides a compact object serializer. HelloWorld serializes to 48 bytes. Adding some simple fields barely increases the size at all. You probably won't be entering any of these URLs by hand of course. There are a few more optimizations that can be made to the serializer as well. CrystalTech hosts ASP.NET in a medium trust environment, so the library also works for shared hosts. Some contortions were necessary, and fully general object serialization is not yet available (for instance, serializing delegates will fail).
int n;
string e;
public Adder(int n)
this.n = n;
this.e = "";
public void Show(IWindow v)
public void Show(IBody v)
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(e))
v.Const("error", "Error: " + e);
v.Literal(" + ");
v.K("y", "add", this);
public void Show(IInput v)
v.Text("x", "", "");
public K Apply(NameValueCollection args)
return new Adder(this.n + int.Parse(args["x"]));
this.e = "Invalid number specified.";
return this;
By default, the library assumes all continuation objects can be migrated to clients. This encourages more scalable program structures. If some object needs to remain server-side, simply implement the ILocal interface. There are no operations, but the interface marks the class as non-mobile. The default behaviour in this case is to generate a random 64-bit token, and migrate this token instead. When the token migrates back to the server, it re-connects to the original object. If the server restarts, this state is lost, but a state server as found in ASP.NET can be built which will allow the state to survive restarts and be shared between machines.
Schema upgrade can still pose a problem unfortunately, and unlike with server-side state where the continuations are stored centrally, you can't use a tool to upgrade them. Altering method implementations does not pose an upgrade problem. Adding and removing fields is problematic however.
Fortunately, applications using the library are already structured for easy upgrade and permit a configurable policy for deprecation. Basically, don't touch existing classes, and only create new classes. Replace the use of old classes in the program with the new classes, then whenever you judge it appropriate, remove the old class entirely. On any serialization errors, the library will invoke an application-specific handler which returns a continuation. I think any conceivable upgrade policy is feasible given these primitives.
The current source for the library is available here. I plan to improve the mechanism for displaying continuations in a medium-independent fashion. Ideally, I'd like to be able to create a binding for Windows.Forms, and for JSON requests, so that the same continuation-structured application can be reused unmodified in different environments.


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|Tori Goes Platinum
|Season 3, Episode 10-11
|First Aired
|May 19th, 2012
|Production Code
|Dan Schneider and Christopher J. Nowak
|Steve Hoefer
|Viewed By:
|3.823 million[1]
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Tori Goes Platinum is a 1-hour Victorious special. It is the 10th and 11th episode of Season 3 and the 44th and 45th overall. It aired on May 19th, 2012. Tori Goes Platinum drew 3.8 million total viewers and was number one in its time period across key demos – K2-11 (5.1/1.8 million), K6-11 (7/1.5 million), Tweens (7.3/1.5 million). The program bested direct competition by triple digits among kid and total viewers, and totaled 8.3 million total viewers over the weekend. This is the third and final movie of Victorious.
Tori wins a contest to sing the opening number at the Platinum Music Awards, but she soon finds out the show's producer, Mason Thornesmith, and his team want to reinvent her look and personality. Tori has to completely change her style and act like a rebellious diva. She is not allowed to tell anyone about this, not even her friends and family. Her friends at school suspect she is changing because of her sudden chance at fame, and it becomes a problem for Tori. Eventually, Beck comes over to Tori's house and guesses her secret, because he knows that Tori wouldn't change so much unless someone was making her. Beck tells Tori to be herself, and promises that she won't get fired because the show is only two days away. They almost kiss before being interrupted by Mrs. Vega coming into the room. Tori ends up taking Beck's advice and telling Mason and the producers that she can't take it anymore, which results into Mason firing her. He gives Jade that chance instead, since he also liked her audition. Jade agrees to do the show even though Tori is devastated.
André, Robbie, and Beck all go to Tori's house, attempting to cheer her up with gifts such as a creepily laughing dog and a chocolate leaf blower. Cat PearChats them on her laptop from Jade's rehearsal, and André and Robbie quickly leave to join her there. However, Cat accidentally leaves PearChat on, and Jade can see Tori and Beck talking alone in Tori's living room. She watches as Beck leans in to kiss Tori, but she moves away. When he asks why, she tells him that Jade is her friend, and she feels wrong about kissing a friend's ex-boyfriend. Later, Tori goes to meet Jade at the Boomerang Theatre to talk to her about her chat with Beck. Jade has a change of heart, feeling that it was wrong for her to accept the role when it was Tori's chance and Tori had won fairly. She decides to change the script so Tori can perform, while she goes into the audience to watch. Tori performs Make It In America, and Mason sees this. He is angry at first, since he fired Tori, but eventually likes it and a person who works for him says: "But you fired her." and Mason just responds, "You're fired." After she is done performing, they all run up to congratulate her, and her friends hug her.
Cat eats some of Mason's bibble (a fictional British food), and becomes very addicted to it. She carries around a big sack of it and won't even let anyone touch it. Her parents hire a man named Oliver, Cat's "Bibble Guard," to keep her from eating bibble, with the two of them handcuffed together. He keeps her from eating or even going near it and won't let anyone give her any. However, at the end of the episode, Oliver and Cat are seen hiding behind a dumpster eating bibble. Also, on TheSlap.com, Tori mentions that they are only un-handcuffed when Cat goes to the bathroom and this is why Cat keeps a secret stash of bibble behind the toilet.
- The episode's featured song "Make It In America" was written by Victoria Justice.
- This episode aired exactly 5 months in the UK after the USA, airing on October 19, 2012.
- This is the third one-hour special of Victorious, after Freak the Freak Out and Locked Up. Tori sang in all three.
- This episode was filmed in March 2012.
- Matt Bennett posted a picture of a plant on Twitter and said: "Crazy super-secret plot detail spoiler from an upcoming episode of Victorious. TOP SECRET TELL NO ONE!" [2]
- Charles Shaughnessy guest stars as Mason Thornesmith.[3]
- Jennifer Veal guest stars as Chelsea.
- This is the second episode to feature a star from the cast of The Nanny (the first being Renee Taylor as Robbie's Mammaw in The Birthweek Song).
- This is the 8th time Tori's name has been used in the title of an episode, the first seven being in Tori the Zombie, Beck Falls for Tori, Tori Gets Stuck, Tori Tortures Teacher, A Christmas Tori, Tori & Jade's Play Date, and Driving Tori Crazy.
- The Boomerang Theater is a parody of the Staples Center or The Great Western Forum.
- This is the first time on an hour-long special to have a character's name in the title.
- This is the second time a transformation that has happened to both Tori and Jade. First being Tori & Jade's Playdate.
- Bibble is not a real British snack. It's just regular popcorn, and in some scenes, coloured popcorn.
- This is the only hour-long special not to have a custom theme song opening.
- In the series of auditions for the Platinum Music Awards, numerous references to other people in the Schneider universe are featured:
- Gibby from iCarly sings the song from the end of the episode, iCan't Take It.
- Tara Ganz from "Freak the Freak Out" auditions with Give It Up.
- The quartet from "Beggin' on Your Knees" is featured.
- Miranda Sings (PsychoSoprano/Colleen Ballinger's alter ego) has a cameo singing Freak the Freak Out.
- The url http://www.superstarbam.com redirects to TheSlap.
- Victoria Justice did a Google+ Hangout the day this episode premiered, which can be viewed here.
- The song André sang for his audition is called Aquarius. It was written by Leon Thomas and he posted on his YouTube page.
- The song Jade sang for her audition is called Okay, and she also sang part of the song in Jade Gets Crushed. Another part of the song was sung by Tori and Ryder in Beggin' on Your Knees; this is the part that Jade uses in her audition.
- Rex sang Forever Baby in his audition, and it is the first time since season 1 that it was sung.
- Both "#ToriGoesPlatinum" and "Tori and Beck" trended on Twitter during the episode. "Proud of Victoria" trended shortly after.
- Robbie is singing his song about Broken Glass for his audition. He first sang this song in The Diddly-Bops.
- When Robbie is auditioning, it seems as if he is in the Vega's back patio.
- There are two SpongeBob references in this episode: Sikowitz being mistaken for voicing the character Plankton (who really is Mr. Lawrence who doesn't work on Victorious at all) and Tori going to wear a jellyfish suit with tentacles and a meat head (the SpongeBob show involves a lot of jellyfish and meat which is the Krabby Patty).
- This is the third time that Cat has been addicted to something. The first two times were in Robarazzi and Driving Tori Crazy.
- Several of the outfits that Tori and Jade wear resemble those of Lady Gaga.
- This is the second time Cat gives someone gum that is already chewed and the other person eats it; the first time, she gave her gum to Robbie in The Breakfast Bunch.
- Beck tells Tori to stop acting nervous. Tori says she's not acting, she's really nervous. This is a reference to Locked Up when a similar interaction happens between Beck and André.
- André gives Tori a creepy dog toy that laughs and rolls around with its tail. This is a reference to one of Dan's videos "Most HORRIFYING TOY of ALL TIME ," which features the dog.
- The outside shots of the Boomerang Theater is the outside of the Staples Center in real life. It also appeared in an episode of iCarly, iFight Shelby Marx.
- Beck is the only main character who wasn't shown auditioning.
- This is the third time Burf appears, the first and second being Tori & Jade's Play Date and Driving Tori Crazy.
- On iTunes, the end credits shows an extended edition of Burf's audition.
- Ending Tagline: "But it huuuuurts!" - Cat.
- This is the second time Tori sings a song with the phrase "Make It" in the title. The first is Make It Shine.
- This is the second time Tori got a standing ovation. The first was in Pilot.
- This is the first time we see Beck and Jade smile at each other since they broke up.
- The Platinum Music Awards is a parody of the Billboard Music Awards.
- Cat saying, "Bring me some bibble. You're my only hope." to Tori might be a reference to the famous line in Star Wars, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! You're my only hope!"
- When Rex talks about Tori he says "she thinks she's hot wazz." This is a reference to Welcome to the Dollhouse when Ralphie confronts the bullies and says "you think you're hot sh*t when you're really cold diarrhea."
- At the end of the performance of Make It In America you can see the Hungry Girl billboard.
- This is the second time Sinjin sings (the first being in The Diddly Bops).
- When Tori asks Cat if she thinks she's turning obnoxious, Cat says: "Well, I used to think you were the nicest, but you're not the same."
- The conversation about TV writing being terrible was an example of lampshading, since some critics feel that way about the show itself.
- When Tori jumps over to the couch when Mrs. Vega comes in, you can see that she is wearing pink socks with mustaches on them. This is a reference to the actress that portrays her, Victoria Justice, and her love of mustaches.
- Cat sang the song "I'm a Fool" by Kelly King for her audition.
- A slightly extended version of Cat's audition is seen during the ending credits of the iTunes version of the episode Victori-Yes, with backing music overdubbed onto the clip.
- Tori sang the song "Cheer Me Up" by Natasha Bedingfield for her audition.
- This is the second episode when Cat tells someone not to touch something. First was in André's Horrible Girl.
- This is the second episode when Sikowitz tells his students to repeat what he says. First was in Tori Tortures Teacher.
- When Tori walks into class in one scene, you can see her stumble over because she was wearing heelless pumped shoes.
- Although Mason was said to be English and spoke with a British accent; he said 'tuna fish' instead of just 'tuna' (and pronounced 'tuna' like Americans do), he also said 'pants' instead of 'trousers'. This may be attributed to him and his family having spent several years living in America.
- The platinum music awards were also used in iCarly's iFix a Pop Star.
- Superstarbam.com, a website mentioned in this episode redirects you to theslap.com
- When the Paparazzi are taking photos of Tori, the screen is on Sikowitz but you can see Tori's hands. Her phone is gone but in the next shot, it's back.
- Robbie took his chocolate leaf blower and the bag when he left Tori's house, but when Tori complained about him taking it, the bag was still there.
- In the promo Tori says really then Mason says What? but in the actual episode, it is cut off for unknown reasons
- Trina said she was going to soak her face in mayonnaise for 10 minutes, but a person can drown in even just a bowl of fluid if their mouth and nose are in it, as an average human can only hold their breath for 6 minutes at the most before their brain begins to take damage from the lack of breath and die.
- Though Trina could have come up to breathe every now and then.
- When Tori finished drinking the juiced tuna, the cap is off, then in the next shot the cap is back on, then off again, and then on.
- When Andre brings in the stuffed dog and rolled on the ground, it makes a creepy noise. But when Robbie and Beck comes in, the dog stops laughing. But when Tori finishes saying 'Fine', it continues laughing again
- Jade would have been in serious trouble even if she let Tori sing. Jade would have been arrested.
- Though Jade and Mason may have known this, and for Jade the risk would be worth it to see Tori perform.
- Cat ate 10 pounds of bibble in under a day; however, the human stomach can only hold 30 ounces of food. This possibly meant 10 pounds as the British currency (which are called pounds) rather than the weight.
- When the class was watching a video of Tori in the restaurant, she didn't say "Give me that ravioli!"
- When Tori said "Just 'cause..." her PearPhone XT is suddenly gone, but is back a second later.
- Tori can't play any instruments, as said in Stage Fighting and Beck's Big Break, however, she played the piano perfectly for her audition tape, she probably learned throughout time.
- Tori's status update about her new outfit had the emotion listed as "Snazzy?" but on TheSlap, it is listed as "Shocked." There is a different emoticon, as well.
- When Beck said "Cause you're awesome," captions say Tori said "Oh." But, she never said anything, she just leaned to kiss.
- After Mrs. Vega interrupted Tori and Beck's kiss, the door was open, but when Beck headed for the door, it was slightly closed, the camera cut to Tori, when it cut back to Beck the door was open again.
- After Tori says that her first costume had nothing to do with singing on the PMAs, Jade is putting her arm up, but when it close ups on Jade, she is seen to put it up again.
- When Jade is watching Tori & Beck on video chat, Cat is seen reading a script instead of getting Jade's costume. When Jade closes the video chat Cat puts her script away and comes out with the costume.
- When Oliver and Cat are in the Boomerang Theater, Oliver said that he is sitting in the aisle seat. But when they are sitting waiting for the song, they are clearly seen to be not near to the aisle seat. In fact, they were right next to Robbie, who was no where near the aisle.
- When André and Robbie run out of Tori's house, she looks around and Beck is nowhere to be seen.(Maybe he was using the bathroom)
- It was stated that in order to audition, you had to have sung an original song, but quite a few characters are seen singing songs not made by them.
Running Gags
- Trina putting different kinds of condiments on her face then running away when people come at the door. Several times, she says each different condiment helps with a certain facial problem (mayo makes a girl look prettier & mustard helps pimples)
- Cat's Bibble addiction. She continuously keeps asking for bibble & requesting it from her bibble guard & friends, which her bibble guard continuously repeats: "No bibble for Cat!"
- People spitting food out in others' hands.
- Tori and Jade wearing different kinds of wacky diva clothes when they have the role for the Platinum Music Awards.
This episode got positive reviews and approximately 3.823 million viewers, which is the season's fourth highest amount of viewers for an episode. It was also the first hour-long special to get below 4 million viewers.
Sikowitz: Backstory. (Points at his back) Back. S.... (Points at Tori) tory. Backstory.
Tori: Why do you keep saying backstory?
Sikowitz: Excellent question! When it comes to television shows and Hollywood movies, most of the writing is... terrible.
Everyone: Yeah, that's true.
Jade: Don't we know it.
Cat: Ooohhh! The police found a weird stain on the seat of my brother's car.
André: Uh, what kind of stain?
Cat: They don't know yet. They're taking the car seat down to "the lab."
Sinjin: Hi, sorry to interrupt.
Sikowitz: What is it, boy?
Sinjin: Mason Thornesmith is having a major press conference right now about the Platinum Music Awards! (runs away happily)
Robbie: (while looking at his PearPad 2) I got it. They're streaming it on TheSlap!
Tori: Put it on the TV!
Everyone: Come on! Put it on!
Sikowitz: Okay! Lets see... (typing into his PearBook 4) W... w...w...
Cat: (pushes Sikowitz) Move!
Trina: I'm even changing my name.
Tori: To what?
Trina: P-Zazz!
Tori: Wait, isn't that a medicine that helps people stop wetting the bed?
Robbie: No, that's P-Zole, and it doesn't work very well... (Tori and Trina stare at him) So I hear...
Mason: We'll never tell you anything that isn't true. [Tori looks at the tuna fish juice] Mason: Starting now.
Beck: So, why are you dressed like that? Not that it's bad. Just um... why?
Tori: Uhhh... just 'cause.
Jade: Yeah, just 'cause she thinks she's a big star now.
Tori: I don't think I'm... Look, I just thought I wanted to wear something a little different today. This has nothing to do with me singing in the Platinum Music Awards.
Jade: (coughs) Liar! (coughs)
Robbie: (points at Cat) Sikowitz, Cat has bibble!
Sikowitz: Cat! (gets the bibble from Cat)
Cat: No, it's not mine, I'm holding it for a friend. But I need it! I mean my friend needs it!
André: (gives Cat a gum) Cat, here.
Cat: What's this?
André: It's a special gum. If you're craving Bibble, just chew some of that it'll make you feel better. Just unwrap it, then chew-
Cat: I know how gum works!
Mason Thornesmith: For the next 48 hours, we will be accepting online auditions at SuperstarBAM.com.
Trina: Yes, yes, I got this! (talking to other people talking) Shut up!
Trina's video extras: Can we have some water?
Trina: Did you guys bring water?
Trina's video extras: No.
Trina: Then I guess not.
Mason Thornesmith: There's my girl.
(Camera crew and Mason Thornesmith enter Hollywood Arts)
Beck: What's going on?
Mason Thornesmith: Tori Vega?
Tori: (Tori still trying to chew up the hoagie in her mouth)
Beck: Just spit it in my hands.
Tori: (Tori spits her chewed up hoagie from her mouth into Beck's hand)
Beck: Oh, god it's warm.
(while Cat is chewing the bubble gum that André had given her)
André: Uh. Cat, maybe you want to back off that gum.
Cat: Don't tell me what to do!
(Paparazzi photographers enter the classroom and start taking pictures of Tori)
Sikowitz: Hey! Hey, you people! Paparazzi people! Out! Get out!
Paparazzi Photographer: Whoa! It's the voice of Plankton!
Sikowitz: No, I am not...
(Paparazzi photographers take pictures of Sikowitz)
Sikowitz (playing along): I mean... Karen, I must have the secret formula for the Krabby Patty!
Paparazzi Photographer: Nice, nice, let's get a shot of Plankton with Tori!
Sikowitz: Oh, sure, sure, huh, how about this? Nice, right?
(Sikowitz stands next to Tori and the paparazzi photographers take pictures of them)
Jade: So, you deny that you totally changed how you dress?
Tori: No.
Jade: Do you deny throwing a tantrum at that restaurant?
Tori: No, I did. But. But-
Jade: (Imitating Tori in a sarcastic voice) But! But! But! But!
Sikowitz: Looks like someone got the bad case of the buts.
Rex: Maybe she should see a "but" doctor.
Robbie: I've got a guy.
(Mason Thornesmith and his crew show up at Hollywood Arts, and Mason confronts Tori for not wearing the costume he sent her)
Tori (Nervously): Hey, Mason.
Mason Thornesmith (Angrily): Hey, what? Why are you dressed like a pre-turd? (To his female assistant) Did you send her the jellyfish dress—with the tentacles?
Chelsea: I did! I swear it!
Mason Thornesmith (To Tori): Where's the dress?! And why aren't you wearing the meat hat? (To his female assistant): Did you send her the meat hat?
Chelsea: Yes! I... I cross me heart!
Beck: Tori doesn't wanna wear your jellyfish dress or your meat hat.
Mason Thornesmith (To Tori): Listen to me, young lady. We have a deal.
Tori: Look, I don't wanna be your puppet anymore! I don't wanna wear stupid clothes, and stupid makeup. And I don't wanna be mean or flip tables or dump ravioli down former astronauts' pants!
Cat: (to Tori, André, and Robbie through PearChat, whispering) Tori! Bring me some bibble...you're my only hope!
Oliver: No bibble for Cat!
Cat: No bibble for Cat!
(After watching the video of Tori in the restaurant)
Sikowitz: That is disappointing and shocking. It's disashocking.
Jade: And hilarious. It's disashockinglarious.
Cat: (While chewing some gum) Yeah. Tori has a big problem.
Beck: Now why don't you just stop?
Tori: Cause, if I don't keep acting like a 'bad girl obnoxious rock star' they might drop me from the show!
Beck: The show is in two days, they can't fire you.
Tori: I dunno, I'm scared.
Beck: Listen, just tell Mason Thornesmith, that you're not gonna play his little game anymore.
Tori: But...
Beck: The world needs to see who you really are.....cause you're awesome.
(Lean in to kiss).
Tori (to Beck): I didn't eat dinner last night and I didn't have breakfast this morning.
Gibby from iCarly: (Singing)
Mason Thornesmith: CRUISE SHIP!
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Ok folks, I'm back. I've spent the last six months reading, writing (and arithmetic - that's a joke... ha-ha...) seriously, implementing solutions, visiting customer sites, and seeing what's going on in the world; and to that end, the DW/BI world is changing. You've seen me write about this before, but now it's on-top of your head.
Like it or not... Your Data Warehouse IS a System Of Record, and if it isn't in 2009, it WILL BE before the end of 2010. So what does that mean?
You've heard about it for the past 2 years (at least), it's called Operational BI, and my good friend Claudia Imhoff, and my other friend Colin White have published many many articles and blog entries about these topics. But have you given any consideration to exactly what that means to the Data Warehouse?
Come on people, get with the times!
Ok, down to brass tacks. To have "operational BI" you must have Operational Data, well, wait a minute - operational data means system of record doesn't it?
Ding Ding Ding, you win the prize... come on down!
Wow, didn't know there was a prize... (there's not)... Anyhow, Operational Data is required - and if you're talking operational BI, then your talking about business intelligence, and if you mention business intelligence, then you MUST consider data warehousing....
So what does that mean?
It means you've GOT NO CHOICE but to consider an Operational EDW under the covers. That's right folks, I've said it for years, now I'm not going to hide this fact from the light anymore. YOUR DATA WAREHOUSE WILL FROM NOW ON... HOUSE OPERATIONAL DATA RIGHT BESIDE YOUR HISTORICAL DATA, this means that the operational data will be captured from applications sitting directly ON-TOP of your Data Warehouse.
Think I'm foolin do ya?
Think again... These are the systems I've been building, or helping folks build for the past 3 years - you don't think that I've been sitting around resting on my laurels eh? Far from it. I've been traveling the world, talking to folks about accountability, credibility, RAW OPERATIONAL DATA sitting right inside the data warehouse. This means that the combined result produces Operational BI. it also means that the resulting Data Warehouse or (ODW for short) IS a system-of-record.
Don't like it? Tough. Take it to the bank!
Customers like JP-Morgan-Chase, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, World Bank, ABN-AMRO, RBS (royal bank of Scotland), Sisters of Mercy Healthcare, Blue-Cross Blue Shield, Department of Defense, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, City of Charloette (North-Carolina), SNS Bank Netherlands, and more have all used these principles to create complete ODW's in house today.
What do they need?
Accountable, Auditable, Flexible and scalable data stores that act as an EDW while at the same time absorbing real-time transactional (operational) data directly in to the EDW. Thus creating a RAW ODW. It's here today folks, fed by web-services (SOA), batch, and ESB's - managed and edited by applications that control metadata, carrying changes and audit trails along with cube-write-backs and data edits, that's what ODW and Operational BI are all about. It's making the systems more robust, more scalable, more complete.
At the risk of upsetting some folks: And ODW is the underpinning of successful OBI.
The ODW contains and inherits all the responsibilities of the data warehouse. In addition, because it houses operational data it also inherits all the responsibilities of an operational system!!! Yep, you guessed it: 9x9 up-time, reliability, fault-tolerance, fail-over, garaunteed access, high speed transaction handling, on-top of: strategic data handling, historical record keeping, integration, etc... And don't forget: system-of-record.
But why is it a system-of-record? I though other operational systems handled this?
Each operational system handles their own system of record, but with an ODW - think about it... you're saying: My data warehouse/BI solution is an operational system in addition to being a data warehouse. So, you're saying: this is the only place where a complete, single picture of the integrated operational and historical data lives. Which in essence means: you have built what needs to be a system-of-record.
What's involved in creating a system-of-record for the ODW?
Good question, and I wish I had time to answer it.... Ok - here's my opinion: you need to worry about all the operational "rules and regulations and governance", you also need to worry about storing RAW (uncleansed, unchanged, unaltered) data sets in your data warehouse. That means, your "business rules" to mainpulate data can no longer be executed up-stream of your data warehouse. You must move your business rules downstream of the ODW, otherwise you're changing operational data to make it fit, and blowing up any chance of an auditable system-of-record. ESPECIALLY when 3 months go by and the business rules change!!
Are you saying I need "RAW" data in my ODW to make this work?
That's exactly what I'm saying. I'm not saying get rid of the business rules, I'm not saying put "bad" data in front of business users.... No, I am saying "move the processing downstream" to POST-ODW (between ODW and Data Mart delivery). It will make your life MUCH easier.
This is absured, I've never heard of anything like this before. Why should I care?
You don't have to care if you don't want, but the world is a changing place. If you want an auditable and compliant ODW, or you want to add operational data to your data warehouse you will have to follow these rules, dare I say it: you might find yourself out of a job if you don't!
All the companies I mentioned above, and more, every day are learning this the hard way (through failed audits, through corporate restructuring, through spread-marts where cost has gotten out of hand)... They have decided to build ODW's to solve these problems.
It just so happens, they are using the Data Vault Modeling to make this happen, you don't need a Data Vault model to get here, you must however follow the principles outlined in this article - but the Data Vault is an enabler that will help you get here faster. You can read more about the Data Vault Model at: http://www.DataVaultInstitute.com
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One Plus has finally launched its popular One Plus One smartphone in India. This handset is exclusively available on Amazon for those who has received an invite. One Plus One packs a 5.5-inch Full HD display, 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, 13 megapixel rear camera, 4G LTE Connectivity and more. It runs on the Android 4.4 (KitKat) based CyanogenMod 11S.
Similar to its global invite system, Indian user will need an India-specific invite to purchase this device. To get an invite, you will need to participate in the contests and promotional events hosted on the company's forums or social media channels as well as by Amazon.in. You can also ask someone who has bought a OnePlus phone for an invite. To learn more, head over to this page. One Plus One comes with a price-tag of INR 21,999.
One Plus One Specifications:
- 5.5-inch Full HD display
- 1920 × 1080 pixels resolution
- Corning Gorilla glass 3 protection
- 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor
- Android 4.4 (KitKat) based CyanogenMod 11S
- 13 megapixel rear camera with Dual LED Flash
- 4K video recording
- 5 megapixel front-facing camera
- 64 GB internal memory
- 4G LTE Connectivity
- Wi-Fi 802.11 ac
- Bluetooth 4.1
- 3100 mAh battery