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My sweet child has recently been morphed into the devil. I announced that yesterday and got quite the responses! As it turns out, Evans was back to sweet this morning with only a tad of devil while we were shopping in target. No one has been hit in the face (although he does like to point to my eye rather intensely and I think he wants to pull my lashes out) and the day went much much better then the past few days. Hmmm, I find it a bit funny that as I am writing about Evans' improved behavior I start to hear him wailing over the monitor. It's 9:30pm son, you should be 2 hours into deep sleep. Now go back to bed. Lucky for me grandfather Buddy stepped up to the plate but I still will bet $20 I'll have to eventually take over. Sigh. So the real point of this point is whether it is smart to take a bad baby on a airline flight. Some people (like me most of the time) don't have a choice and you will just have to deal with sitting next to a baby. Who do think is going to want to sit next to this?That is the sweet baby eating spaghetti disguised as the devil. Anyways, Evans and I are flying out tomorrow to go visit my sister in law and all the crazy cousins. And by crazy I mean flat ass wild. The first time Evans hung out with them he didn't poop for like 4 days. But oh how he loves those cousins now. I can't wait to see all the babies playing together and of course my SIL and I will get to play a little too! My niece Karis turns one this weekend so we will get to be there for the birthay bash. Evans will have a ball and even his great grandmother is going to be there! So excited to see everyone! I hope we make it with no glitches and with one very well behaved child (that means you Evans).
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Smart Idea Bad Idea
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Wonderbaby Gone Bad?
Look at this baby. Have you ever seen anything so sweet? WELL, he is completely tricking everyone! Is it possible that my sweet boy has turned into the devil overnight? Does this happen? Is it POSSIBLE?! Evans has been so bad the last two days that by about 3:30pm I start to wonder if I can have a drink yet and by 6:00pm I'm pulling my hair out. I don't know where we have gone wrong. He is throwing food in restaurants, throwing his sippy cup, grabbing bowls of his food and dumping them overboard the high chair. He doesn't want to sit in his highchair in restaurants, he doesn't want to kiss me and he SCREECHES. Last night he dumped a whole bowl of pastina (thinking TINY MINUTE pieces of pasta) into my mom's kitchen rug. As I was on the floor picking them up with my fingers, which was not an easy task, he threw his cup full of milk on top of my head. I was defeated. He has been pitching fits, swats at my face and I'm nearly positive he has tried to bite me. Today at lunch he started throwing his grilled cheese (that I'm sure cost about seven dollars) overboard and I took his hand and spanked it and said no. I didn't think he would really understand it but I had HAD IT. What I did not expect was when he tried to SPANK ME BACK. I was ready to throw him overboard. And I rarely feel like this with him. I have to say that after his afternoon nap he was much more mild mannered and not nearly as ill behaved but still. This better be a phase. A phase that lasts two days. Cause I'm over it.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
I'm gonna be rich!
Great ready for this y'all....I have been liberated. As of this morning it's confirmed. Enfamil will no longer be bleeding us for $200 a month. Evans no longer has to have formula. Hallelujah Praise Jesus! Do you know what I hate more than paying $200 a month for formula? Running into the store to grab one thing with one of those little baskets, realizing I need formula and having to haul it up to the check out counter. Also having to carry it in from the car when we get home! Those cans are HEAVY! (please recall that Evans will not drink the powder, nice).
I've had one of those days today when by 12:45pm I felt like it should be at least 4pm. And it wasn't even that taxing. This morning Evans had his 12 month check up with his new pediatrician here in Atlanta. Of course he was cute and entertaining despite it being nap time. When it came time for the nurse to prick his toe I felt certain we were heading for disaster. He was sitting on the exam table and I was holding him still. I started to wonder what was taking so long because Evans wasn't crying and when I looked over the nurse was taking the blood out of his toe while Evans watched curiously. We weren't as lucky with the FOUR shots that he had to get in his legs! Poor thing. The one plus is that he opened his mouth so wide to scream that I could actually finally see that we don't have anymore teeth coming in right now. He is definitely feeling a little punky as he has taken 4 hours worth of naps and is already in bed asleep at 7pm.
My mom watched Evans this afternoon while I went to get some much needed highlights and a haircut. I love my hairdresser (is that even what you call them anymore? Sound so old fashioned) to death but I'm going to need to start saving my money now for afford going back in 8 weeks or so. I say that he is better than a shrink and unlike a shrink, you leave looking better than when you arrived!
Tomorrow is my 31st birthday. Yikes. I'm not sure when I got so old. Will be celebrating with several friends for dinner and drinks and definitely looking forward to it. Sorry this has been such a boring post. I'm not feeling all that witty and smart today! I'm exhausted! And now Evans is crying so I'm heading downstairs to rock. Hope all is well in blogland!
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Cake Day Part II
Pretty sad when you have so many pictures from your child's birthday party that it takes two blog posts to put them all up! We are slowly recovering from the birthday party (now that it is Tuesday) but Evans still wants to sit at the stairs and look at all his presents stacked up. I don't blame him! He made out like a bandit! So besides the sno cones and cake, this car was a big hit at the party. There were even a few tears shed over it during the course of the afternoon. My parents bought Evans this car (I think before they even found out that I was pregnant) because my sister, brother and I had one while we were growing up. It is called the "Cozy Coupe" but is affectionately known as the "Cozy Coot" because that is what our neighbor called it growing up. My oldest friend Meredith and her little boy Jack recently moved back to Atlanta and Evans and Jack have had no issues becoming friends. Jack is wild and Evans is happy to partake. I thought we might lose Evans during this incident but he was happy as a clam to be pushed around!
I see many more wild adventures for these boys in the future, especially once Evans can figure out how to walk (you know Evans, you use your FEET for walking, they aren't just for decoration, they have a FUNCTION)! The Melissa & Doug giraffe was a big hit with the kids (Evans took a turn riding him) and my mom even said she went out front towards the end of the party and one child was trying to tote him down the driveway!I decided not to do a smash cake for E because I honestly I didn't see the point. I know they are so cute and most babies love them but Evans doesn't typically like sweet things so I didn't bother. And no, I did not realize that Publix did one for free when you ordered your cake there. Yes, that might have changed my mind. However, Evans did get a big ole piece of birthday cake and I was surprised by the amount he ate!He didn't even cry when everyone sang Happy Birthday to him!Really starting to catch on......SUCCESS!!Really, he should have taken some pointers from his good friend, Ana Kathryn Cullens. Now there is a girl who knows how to eat some cake! She didn't need any lessons!After pigging out on cake Evans was kind enough to let Buddy wait on him hand and foot and hold his sippy cup for him (we are working on that).Obviously eating all that cake wore him out. That, or his ELEPHANT outfit is squeezing the life out of him by this point. The rest of my pictures are random but fun and worth showing. I hardly got any photos of the kids lining up for sno cones but it was so cute. Maybe someone else did, I'll have to ask around. Here is Evans spending some time with his Old Dad and Grandmag.My good friend Laura and my mom with one of my aunt's new twin babes. This is boy baby, Jack. I think there were only about 4-5 children at the party named Jack. This one was definitely the smallest!Evans and his cool cousin Joe.Me, Evans, my friend Meredith and her son Jack. Yes, the same one that was playing "car" with Evans so intensely!My little cousin Thomas throughly enjoying his sno cone. This picture makes me smile for sure. I don't even want to think about his expensive outfit covered in that goo.And finally, the happiest boy on earth. I love how he looks like he is just chilling with his gifts.I have some with him once the gifts were unwrapped but I will post them tomorrow. All in all, I think that the party was a huge success. I really enjoyed it and I will be able to look back one day and remember it happily. Now I am in search of another project. Something that will take up my time and provide me with something fun to do! Jobs are overrated so I'm open to all other suggestions! Happy Tuesday Atlanta, enjoy the cooler weather this morning because I'm betting it will be over in the next, say.......14 minutes.
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Birthday Extravaganza!
I suppose that there are several things in a child's life that a parent does solely for themselves. Not that the child isn't supposed to enjoy themselves and have a good time but it isn't going to be the child that remembers it. I semi feel that way about Evans' first birthday celebration that we celebrated yesterday. As one of my friends pointed out, it was go big or go home. I certainly meant for Evans to have a good time but the memories are going to be for me. I'm just looking forward to the spread I'll be able to do in the baby book for this bash! We had about 50 adults and 17 or so kids and I really hope that everyone had as much fun as I did. It was so hot but the sno cones were a hit and I think that I supplied enough sugar for everyone under the age of 6 to last all year. Only one person was missing and although his absence was profound, I'm pretty sure that Evans was too young to notice. This did not make it a whole lot easier for me to ignore but the party must go on, no? I think y'all can judge by the look on Evans' face that the day was a success and I had a happy boy on my hands. He did actually wear clothes to the party but that is another story all together.
The morning of the party my mom and I were busy putting the finishing touches on everything. I had to go and get the balloons blown up and ice purchased. Did y'all know that ONE balloon cost 89 cents and there is a 69 cent fee to blow it up? Are you kidding? I was sitting there waiting on my balloons calculating how much I would be spending on 15 balloons plus two huge mylar balloons when the lady rang me up for $13.59. At least they can't count either!I finally got to put my famous fondant giraffes on my homemade (from a box) cupcakes. I've been waiting for this moment all week. I think they turned out extremely well and were worth it despite having jaundiced looking hands for several days afterwards.Since I accidentally made 38947 fondant giraffes, I used them to decorate Evans' cake. Thats right, I didn't think that the cupcakes were going to be enough so we had a cake as well.Needless to say, we had plenty of cake and I heard it was delicious! So, the party was outside in my parents backyard. I thought that all the decorations turned out really well. This is what guests saw first walking up the driveway at the back gate (which yes, my mom did end up painting).Whew, it all looked so nice! And then the hoards descended!
After all this giraffe planning and all the giraffe baking and all the giraffe purchasing, it only made sense that Evans would wear a very special outfit with none other than an.....................ELEPHANT on it!Lord. I'll be explaining that forever. I bought the outfit before I picked out the theme and then I couldn't bring myself to buy something different (hard to believe, I know). So this cute outfit sat in his closet in the plastic until yesterday afternoon when we got him dressed. Holy crap, it was too small. It was the first and last time he will wear the outfit. At least I didn't buy another one! Evans spent the whole party with the center snap in the crouch undone so it wasn't too short on him! He didn't seem to mind.
I think that I have to take a break from uploading pictures right now. I'll have to have a part II tomorrow but it's getting late and I want to go read my book! Tomorrow I'll have pictures of the rest of the party. It'll be worth it I hope!
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Happy Friday, is it?
You know how sometimes pregnant people are pretty forgetful? (no, I'm definitely not pregnant). OR how new mothers sometimes forget what the exact date is because they are so tired? I'm not sure what to tell you my excuse is but the other day I actually wrote the date out as August 15, 2010. Seriously. Here I am being all smug that I actually knew what the day of the month was and I was in the completely wrong year. It wasn't one of those things either were it takes a couple weeks at the beginning of January to get used to it being a new year. Folks, it's AUGUST and I thought that we were still in the year 2010. I guess you can say that (so far) 2011 (the actual year that we are currently living in for those of you that haven't figured it out yet) has not been a year that I will remember much of! I'm lucky these days if I know what day of the week it is. I happen to know that today is Friday because I looked at the calendar on my iphone. Thank god for those! Now don't get too excited for me when you hear what is on my schedule for the evening............I think I might clean up my room BECAUSE MY MOM IS MAKING ME. That's right, I turn 31 (or is it 30 or 32?) next week (I'd have to check the calendar to tell you what day) and I have to stay home tonight to clean up my bedroom. What next? I won't be able to leave the table until I eat all my food?
Today Evans and I had a great play date at my friend Heather's house. She has two adorable boys and Evans had a ball. I'm almost positive that Evans was trying to kiss Grant and NOT bite him when he was lunging at him with his mouth open. I'm just happy that Grant is bigger and could get away faster so we were able to avoid any disasters. Really, Evans does kiss with his mouth open like that but I'm so scared he is going to bite someone that I don't really sit around to see if that is his real intention. Afterwards Evans and I hit up the grocery store to try and buy the last of the supplies needed for Evanspalooza this weekend. My mom and I moved yard furniture this morning and while doing this she decided that she didn't like the way the back gate looked. I'm not positive but I am pretty sure she is outside painting the back gate now. In reference to my post yesterday, she never goes overboard either.
I'm sure that this evening and tomorrow will be used for the finishing touches of the party. We will take a small break in the morning to go to a children's clothing trunk show at a friend's house because Evans practically has no clothes at all. As it is, I think he will have to wear his outfits at least 3 times each this winter. Gah! Anyways, I am off because I just got the five minute warning on a longall on ebay that Evans wants and then I think I will do something exciting.......like go count my fondant giraffes. Happy weekend!
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Overboard? I think not.
I'm hardly known for going overboard on anything, right? I never start painting a room and end up remodeling a whole house, right? And I hardly ever buy 8 longalls and 12 pairs of pajamas for Evans in one day, right? (ok ok, I was watching MTV's The City the other day and it drives me NUTS that that girl Whitney answers everything with "I know, right"? I think she is haunting me). So, why should I go overboard on Evans' first birthday party? Wouldn't it be just my style to have a quiet family gathering? Wrong. While my intentions were mild, this first birthday party has turned into a bit of a circus. I'm just hoping to pull it off and avoid the rain.
I want to share a few of the details because I know that once the party happens, I'll never go back and actually write about them. Currently my mom's dining room is the staging area for all my "accoutrements" and I am positive she doesn't mind at all (I didn't even hear her gasp all the way down the hall when she got back from the dentist this morning when she saw all all the stuff). I feel like I have been collecting the perfect things for ages! Yesterday morning I picked up our party favor cookies that a friend of mine from high school made for us. I could not have been more excited because they turned out perfectly. Mabry's Preppy Confections can be found on Facebook and I can attest to how awesome her cookies are. She even put them in the cellophane bags for me (she would have done the ribbon too except that I had already picked some out I liked).They really turned out great and I can't wait for another occasion to be able to order more! I'm sure all our guest will really enjoy the favors! Who wouldn't?
Originally a friend of mine was going to make cupcakes and a cake with the giraffe theme. It's so hard to find good cake people in Atlanta if you want to spend less than one arm and one leg for their services. And I can sort of understand why now. I decided that I would make my own cupcakes (yes, I am at least capable of this) but that I would also make a fondant giraffe cupcake topper. I found a blog with instructions and the woman who wrote it insisted that her 4 year old daughter made these by herself. I must not be as talented as that 4 year old. First of all I went to Michaels to buy the supplies to make these and that alone cost me $40. Then the real hassle started. I had to dye to fondant yellow so they would at least look REALISTIC and it took me about 8 years to figure out the best way to actually mix the food coloring into the fondant. Those yellow stains on my mom's nice granite cutting board did NOT come from me I swear. HOURS later, with a cramped hand, I finished my cupcake toppers. There are so many of them that I could probably make 3948 cupcakes. However, I think they did turn out very cute. Just don't eat them, they taste like crap.Yes, the giraffes are smiling. I see nothing odd about that.
The rest of my stuff is strewn around all over the place but here are a couple more pictures of what I have in store. Everything will look better once it is set up AND of course, I don't want to give ALL my secrets away. I'm certain our guests are eagerly checking my blog in hopes of finding out what is in store for them! ha.
Don't worry, it might appear that those are all non-alcoholic drinks but the booze is in the garage. :) That's all for now!
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Alive and well? Or just alive....
Do you ever wonder about bloggers that appear to drop off the face of the earth? One day you know everything about them and their lives and the next they are gone? I get it. Sometimes people get busy. They have babies or get a new job or move across the world to Germany for their husband's job. Sometimes the "busy-ness" or the inability to blog comes from things that are a bit bigger than just a change of job or a new addition. My situation is on the bigger side and sometime in the near future I will go into that a little bit further but for now I hope y'all can trust me, my life has been turned upside down and I'm just trying to swim towards the surface. Evans and I have been living in Atlanta for the past several months and have been trying to adjust to good ole mainstream America again. The transition appears to be going smoothly on the outside but I can assure you that it has been everything but easy. But the truth is that I miss blogging on a regular basis and I feel like I have so much to share when it comes to my child and "new" life. One day soon I'll be ready to share but for now, Atlanta is where Evans and I are living, without Deaner.
When I think about where I was in my life a year ago from today I am pretty amazed at where I have ended up. I believe that on this exact date last year (I'd have to go back and check the blog archive) I broke down in tears at bedtime because I was so big and pregnant and HOT. For god sake, those Germans don't know anything about AC! No relief for a pregnant lady! I've gone from having this teeny tiny babe......To having a crawling (that's right folks, we can't even walk yet!), babbling, singing, chatting, kissing, laughing, table food eating and real milk drinking child. It's unreal. I remember when Evans couldn't pick his head up off my shoulder and now I can hardly keep him in my arms. He brings so much joy into my life (gay, I know) and I'm not sure how I would have made it through the past few months without him. He is, simply put, the greatest baby to ever army crawl the face of the earth (besides your's, that is). In honor of Evans' first birthday, which is rapidly approaching next week, I'll post a small photo montage of him the past 6 months or so, where I left off, so y'all can see how he has grown. I'll start back in April with a picture of Evans having dinner after a looooooong flight to the US with his Old Dad (Deaner's dad). You can tell he is thrilled to be here!Easter 2011 was spent in Hattenheim, Germany and Evans got to play with his Easter basket down on the Rhein River.Memorial Day and my 9 month birthday spent on my Buddy's new boat. (I'm hardly cute at all).In June we celebrated (A BIG) birthday for my mom A.K.A. Nana Susie and Evans got to tag along just to say hello before having to depart with Buddy for home.In July we had a visit from Daddy and Evans took his first trip to the aquarium. He loved it so much that we are now members and have been back several times. Mama loves it because it has AC, good ole U.S. of A. They can get somethings right.And that brings us to August. The month my child was born in 2010. Today we went to have our first go round on the park swings.Needless to say, I'll bring him back again soon. I think he enjoyed it. :)
So, a week from today my baby boy will turn a year old. Crazy. We will be celebrating this Sunday in style with a giraffe theme. I may or may not have gone completely off the deep end with this party but it has been a much needed distraction and you only turn one once, right? As the guest list continues to grow longer and I keep adding more flavors to the rented Sno Cone machine I can't help but be a bit excited! I'll be sharing pictures of some of the things up my sleeve tomorrow. Until then, it is time for bed. I hope I still have a couple readers out there in blog land.
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December 06, 2012
Special to the NNPA from The St. Louis American
Reuters is reporting that Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson has suffered a stroke.
A family friend told the news outlet that Jackson is doing well resting and recovering in a Las Vegas hospital.
"He was doing well and says he's feeling OK," close family friend Brian Oxman told Reuters.
Oxman said the father of late pop icon Michael Jackson started experiencing weakness on Wednesday while walking in a park near his home and was later admitted to a hospital.
Oxman, Michael's one-time attorney, said Jackson, 83, has a history of strokes.
"He was talking fine," Oxman added. "He sounded excellent to me."

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to June 1951. (See fig. 5.) Because of this requirement and the reluctance of the railroad to permit the continuance of the haul-road grade crossing on the existing railroad line, the contractor rerouted the existing highway immediately adjacent to the railroad and constructed a haul-road overpass structure to span them both. This structure was completed in February 1951 and was used until removal of the railroad in December 1952.
48. Earth Fill Placement. - In general, a standard pattern was followed for placing earth fill at Trenton Dam. A major quantity of impervious material was hauled in bottom-dump trucks and dumped in windrows which were spread to about 8 inches in thickness by bulldozers. Motor-driven scrapers were used for hauling material adjacent to spillway structures. Sprinkler trucks were used when it became necessary to increase the moisture content of the placed material. A heavy-duty disc was used to distribute the moisture in the sprinkled area. During warm and windy weather, it was necessary to sprinkle the previously compacted layers to offset moisture loss by evaporation. Embankment placing operations are shown in figure 29.
Compaction with tamping rollers was employed on the major portion of the embankment. Air-powered tampers and a hydraulic tamper mounted on a half-truck were used on areas inaccessible to tamping rollers.
During the placement of impervious materials, low densities were obtained from numerous tests even though moisture content, thickness of layers, and roller passes met all requirements. After some experimentation, satisfactory densities were obtained by decreasing the weight of the roller from 40,000 pounds to 34,000 pounds and without increasing the number of roller passes. Better compaction with the lighter roller was due to shear resistance of the compacted material being less than the unit weight of the heavy roller.
The gravel and sand pervious zone was placed with tractors and scrapers. A minor portion was placed with trucks. The material was placed in layers about 8 inches thick, watered heavily and compacted with four passes per layer with a crawler-type tractor. Satisfactory compaction resulted when the tractor rolling operation followed closely after watering.
The material in zone 3 was placed in approximate 1-foot layers and compacted with the placing equipment. Moisture was added to the material when necessary with sprinkler trucks. Because the moisture content was satisfactory for most of the material, only a small amount of water sprinkling was required.
Topsoil was placed on the downstream slope of the embankment with bottomdump trucks, motor-scrapers or bulldozers. On steep slopes the material was dumped along the crest or bottom berm and spread on the slope with bulldozers. The material was placed in two layers, each about 7 inches thick, and compacted with a 7-foot-diameter, 10-foot-long, water-ballasted, smooth-surfaced roller.
(a) Control.-- Needle-moisture tests, needle-density tests, and field-density tests were used for control during embankment placement. Because of unreliability of readings and for other reasons, the needle-density and the needle-moisture tests were discontinued early in the testing program and the field-density test was adopted as a reliable test for both moisture and compaction.
The field-density test was conducted in accordance with the Bureau's "Earth Manual", except the density holes were excavated only to a depth slightly in excess of 6 inches. By limiting the depth of holes, the test was confined to the most recently placed and compacted layer and resulted in positive control. By obtaining the minimum of compaction permitted within the required moisture range, it was reasoned that satisfactory density would result after placing and compacting successive layers. Also corrective measures could be applied, if necessary, to the easily accessible layer. This method of testing was readily adaptable to predominantly silt and homogeneous loess materials, which comprised the impervious zone of the embankment.
In the pervious zone, samples for density tests were obtained from depths ex
tending from 1 to 2 feet below the surface. At these depths, work in the saturated soil was avoided and more accurate samples were obtained.
Numerous tests and observations indicated that the density increase, because of consolidation, was greatest when embankment was placed from 1 to 2 percent dry of optimum. During 1950, several density tests were taken at various depths of the embankment to study the effect of compaction after successive layers were placed. The results of these tests, although not conclusive, indicated that if loess was placed between optimum and 3 percent dry of optimum, the tamping rollers were effective in compacting a depth of 3 feet or more of embankment. The number of density tests taken, together with the percent of acceptable tests, are indicated below for the entire construction period:
No. of Percent
sand and gravel
*Requiring additional compaction.
49. Crushed Rock and Riprap Placement. - Crushed rock was shipped in hopperbottom gondola cars from a quarry at Golden, Colo., to the contractor's railroad switchyard and hauled in trucks to the embankment. The trucks with rock were lowered down the slope with a winch tractor and their loads dumped on the embankment slope for placement (fig. 30). A bulldozer was used to spread the rock to required thickness. In general, the rock was placed after the embankment construction had progressed to a height of about 10 feet and the slope had been trimmed to grade. The riprap was hauled, dumped, and spread in a similar manner on the embankment except a dragline was used for spreading the riprap. The crushed rock blanket was placed 18 inches in thickness on the 3 to 1 slope, diminishing in thickness at the 2-1/2 to 1 slope to 12 inches at the crest. The riprap rock was placed 3 feet in thickness on the 3 to 1 slope, diminishing in thickness at the 2-1/2 to 1 slope to 2 feet at the crest.
A car tipper was used for unloading riprap from railroad cars at the switchyard into a pit, and a power shovel was used to load the material into trucks. Crushed rock was unloaded from the gondola cars into a hopper under the tracks and loaded on trucks by means of a rubber conveyor belt. The delivery schedule of the rock supplier and the construction schedule of the dam contractor were coordinated so that a minimum of rehandling and stockpiling of rock would be necessary. However, because of delays in construction of the embankment, the contractor was unable to place all the rock after delivery; it was necessary to stockpile and rehandle approximately 176,000 tons.
C. Concrete
50. Materials. - (a) Sand.--Sand for concrete construction was obtained from a deposit near the dam site and processed in a plant located on the north edge of the spillway outlet channel at station 62+00.
The plant was of a washing and screening type and was capable of producing about 35 tons of sand meeting specification requirements per hour. Sloping stationary screens with 1-inch square openings were used for removing large gravel, lumps and trash. The larger fractions of sand were controlled by altering the slope of a 1/4-inch screen or by substituting appropriate screen panels. Fine fractions were controlled by regulating the outflow of wash water from the collection hopper.
(b) Coarse Aééregate.--Three sizes of coarse aggregate used in the concrete were purchased by the contractor from Brannon Sand and Gravel Co., Denver, Colo., Cass Co., Golden, Colo., and Guernsey Rock Co., Guernsey, Wyo. These aggregates were obtained from Clear Creek deposit near Denver, and from quarries near Golden, Colo., and Guernsey, Wyo.
Aggregates obtained from the Clear Creek deposit consisted of material that
was rounded to regular in shape, being composed chiefly of granites and gneisses with smaller quantities of schists, basalts, andesite porphyries, cherts, quartz, quartizites,
and dolomitic limestone. About 0.5 percent of the aggregate consisted of chert which reacted deleteriously with high-alkali cement. The aggregate contained an excess of deeply weathered and otherwise unsound particles, but because of the good service of this aggregate in numerous types of concrete structures in the region, these deficiencies were discounted. About 86,088 tons of aggregate were obtained from this deposit. The aggregate was received in three sizes--3/16 to 3/4 inch, 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches, and 1-1/2 to 3 inches--and each size was stockpiled separately. When gravel was drawn from the stockpiles, all three sizes were intermingled to prevent them from rolling off the conveyor belt during transportation to the rescreening plant. Also, the rescreening plant could handle more tons of material per hour when supplied with several sizes of intermingled aggregate.
During the latter part of 1953, when the Brannon Sand and Gravel Co. was unablo to obtain sufficient railroad cars for aggregate shipments, the contractor purchased 1, 244 tons of crushed gravel from the Guernsey Rock Co. at Guernsey, Wyo. This gravel, composed of limestone, was intermingled with Clear Creek aggregate for use in concrete mixes. Batching weights were altered slightly to compensate for the variance in the specific gravities of the two materials.
About 3, 425 tons of aggregate crushed to 3-inch size were obtained from Table Mountain quarry at Golden, Colo. This material was composed mainly of granite gneisses. No physically unsound particles or deleteriously reactive materials were found in the samples tested.
(c) Cement. -- Because of the alkali-reactive material in the concrete sand and in the foundation materials, type II low-alkali cement was used for Trenton Dam. This cement, a mixture of pozzolan and portland cement, manufactured at the Louisville, Nebr., plant of the Ash Grove Lime and Portland Cement Co., was low-alkali type and conformed to Federal specifications No. SS-C-192.
As soon as the portland-pozzolan cement was available, the field laboratory conducted tests to determine the most economical mix consistent with workability, durability, and strength requirements. The maximum water-cement ratios indicated in specifications No. 3047 for parts of structures subjected to certain conditions are indicated below:
However, in order to meet a minimum compressive strength requirement of 3,000 pounds per square inch at 28 days, the water-cement ratios for structures b and c, listed above, were reduced to 0.51 and 0.53, respectively. For concrete mixes using 3-inch maximum aggregate the cement content was increased for structures under conditions b and c from 1.00 to 1.23 barrels and 1.00 to 1.12 barrels, respectively. Concrete mixes using other sizes of aggregates were also altered.
51. Reinforcement Steel. - In accordance with specifications No. 3047, all reinforcement stees was to be furnished by the Government. Approximately 45 percent of the total amount required was obtained from a surplus supply at Enders Dam, Nebr. Attempts were made to purchase the remainder through competetive bids on the open market, but because of national defense priorities in effect at the time and the general steel shortage, no bids were received for a sufficient quantity to supply the job requirements. A large quantity was procured from a surplus supply at the Army Engineer's Office at Atlanta, Ga., and a surplus at Shasta Dam at Redding, Calif.; the remaining
quantity was obtained from several sources. Because numerous sizes of steel were received which did not entirely conform to construction drawings, some substitution of steel sizes to provide equivalent areas was made in parts of the spillway.
Some of the steel was rusted, partly painted or bent. Paint was removed by an acetylene torch or by wire brushing. Cutting and bending or straightening of reinforcement bars was done at the steel storage yard located about one-half mile downstream from the spillway crest.
52. Forms. - Forms for concrete structures were constructed of a variety of materials. These materials included metal, plyboard of various thicknesses, tongueand-groove flooring material, masonite, and heavy timbers. Cables, bolts, and jacks were used for keeping the forms in position during concrete placement. Forms for walls and other exposed surfaces were generally faced with 1- by 4-inch flooring material or plyboard. For reasons of economy, some forms were designed for many reuses.
Spillway wall forms (fig. 31) consisted of panels 32 feet by 19 feet 4-1/2 inches, and were faced with flooring material. The flooring material was placed vertically and was backed by diagonally placed 2- by 6-inch tongue-and-groove material which was solidly attached to 4- by 6-inch timbers. The facing material was held in place by tapered bolts which extended through the forms. Jacks with their bases anchored to a concrete base were used to hold the back form rigidly in position. After these panels were used about 12 times, the floor facing began to curl and required smoothing with a sander. When the curling became excessive, the flooring material was replaced with new lumber. Two replacements were necessary on each form during the entire construction program.
Forms for the upstream end of the outside bridge piers of the spillway were faced with 1/4-inch plyboard and backed with two layers of 3/16-inch masonite and a layer of 1/4-inch plyboard. Frames for these forms consisted of a double layer of 2by 12-inch planks spaced at 15-inch intervals and cut to fit the pier curvature. Support for the forms was provided by a 12- by 12-inch strong back with a number of small studs placed at the leading edge of the pier.
Three 5-foot I-beams were placed in blockouts left in the piers and were used to support the forms and reinforcement steel for the center bridge spans over the spillway structure. Heavy timbers were placed across these beams at 5-foot centers for supporting the bridge forms. Correct elevation for the forms was obtained by wedging.
Forms for the 5.5-foot circular conduit were assembled in a jig to one side (fig. 32). After the inside and outside forms with reinforcement steel were assembled, the jig was placed in position with a dragline. The interior form was faced with masonite and arranged for easy removal. The outside form was constructed of shiplap. Metal forms were used for forming the 8-foot 2-inch diameter conduit.
53. Batching and Mixing. - Concrete for Trenton Dam structures was batched and mixed at a central plant located about 500 feet east of the spillway outlet channel at station 53+00. This plant consisted of a partitioned 225-ton gravel bin, a 100-barrel cement bin, a 90-cubic-foot batching hopper equipped with a full reading dial scale for cumulative weighing of aggregates, a separate automatic hopper for weighing cement, a semiautomatic water batcher, a 2-cubic-yard tilting mixer equipped with a timing and locking device, a 160-cubic-foot concrete collection hopper, and conveyor systems for the cement and aggregates. Cement was stored in a 1, 750-barrel storage silo located adjacent to the mixing plant. The aggregate bins were provided with vibrating screens. Air-entraining agent was added to the mix by means of a dispenser. Mixing water was obtained from a shallow well located under the plant. A view of the layout of the mixing plant is shown in figure 33.
Three sizes of aggregates were used in the concrete. The percentages of concrete placed with the maximum size of aggregate used are indicated below:


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We, the civil society of Pakistan, demand Election Commission and Supreme Court to make sure that every Pakistani who wants to exercise his/her democratic right to vote should be facilitated.
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If democracy is the name of giving people the right to choose then there should be minimum hurdles in expressing the choice.
Current registrations with Election Commission of Pakistan will not guarantee the registration of every eligible voter.
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KFC's Big Game of Chicken – Businessweek
Even at nightfall, it's easy to spot signs of Ghana's growing wealth in downtown Accra—from the Toyota (TM) Land Cruisers scattered among honking taxis to the ripples of laughter that emanate from a packed rooftop lounge. There's the young man window-shopping for electronics as he talks on his cell phone, while nearby, three Chinese executives climb into a sedan. But nothing beats the massive illuminated red-and-white bucket perched atop a 20-foot pole, emblazoned with a grinning, goateed Colonel Harland Sanders. For Americans, Sanders may be the faded icon who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken (now KFC) 60 years ago. For Ghanaians, the Colonel, who just arrived in September, is a symbol that their small West African country is now on the map.
This KFC is housed in a three-story building with floor-to-ceiling windows, semicircular booths, and flat-screen televisions. "This is how middle-class people want to eat," says surveyor B.B. Acquah, as he pulls apart a piece of Extra Crispy Chicken. "I came around out of curiosity, and I'd have to say this is better than what we have." Indeed, the chain's launch last fall was even covered on national TV.
More than 5,000 miles away in New York, "greasy" is the word used by a 27-year-old sales associate named Melinda Chan. She's in a KFC near Times Square, staring at the box on her tray, which contains a battered thigh, a drumstick, some potato wedges, and a Diet Pepsi. "This must be, like, 1,000 calories," says Chan. (She's not far off, according to calorie counts posted on the menu board.) Chan is seated downstairs in a cramped store that also sells pizzas under the Pizza Hut banner. The dining room is nearly empty; a few tables away, a disheveled-looking man is working his way through a tray of food that someone left behind. "I almost never eat here," says Chan, looking a little embarrassed as she eyes her surroundings and reminisces about a "cute" KFC she once saw in Paris. "Can you believe this is Times Square?"
Brands rise and brands fall, though they don't often do both at the same time, and under the same leadership. Yet that's exactly what has happened at KFC. The fried-chicken chain is part of Yum! Brands (YUM), which also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, and represents almost half of the roughly 37,000 restaurants the company operates in 120 countries. KFC has the added distinction of being both the best performer and the biggest headache in the family. In emerging markets such as China, India, and Africa, it's a muscular player bursting with optimism, innovation, and growth potential. China was home to 3,701 KFC outlets at the end of last year; McDonald's (MCD) had 1,464. In Africa, KFC plans to enter seven new countries this year (including Uganda, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and expects to generate $2 billion in sales from 1,200 KFCs across the continent by 2014. In the U.S., which is still KFC's largest market with 4,780 units, it has closed restaurants and lost share to rivals such as Chick-fil-A and Popeyes. The goal there has been less to rebuild than to "refranchise," reducing the percentage of company-owned KFCs from 35 percent about a decade ago to 5 percent by the end of this year.
For years, investors have endorsed Yum's strategy of selling ever more fried chicken in China while reducing investment at home. This has allowed the fast-food giant to increase earnings per share by 13 percent for 10 straight years—a record it expects to maintain until at least 2020—and led to a quadrupling of the stock price. But failing on the home front carries other costs, from frustrated franchisees who are skeptical about a promised turnaround to consumers who are choosing to eat chicken elsewhere. And it's all happening with a brand Ghanaians and millions of others worldwide are supposed to associate with high-end, American-style chicken. Even fans of the stock, such as UBS (UBS) analyst David Palmer, have wondered: "How did such a stale fast-food concept become such a juggernaut overseas?"
The man behind the Colonel is David Novak, 59, who has led Yum since it spun out from PepsiCo (PEP) in 1997, first as president, then as chief executive officer in 2000, and chairman as well a year later. In that time Novak has accumulated about $400 million in compensation, stocks, and options.
The company headquarters in Louisville is an antebellum-style mansion, built in 1970, complete with six three-story-high columns and a flagpole; locals call it the White House. A motion-activated animatronic Colonel Sanders greets visitors in a small museum near the entrance. It's a shrine to Sanders, who died in 1980, and it showcases old commercials, photos, and even his trademark white suit and bolo tie. The Colonel's handwritten secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices is somewhere on-site, locked in a 770-pound high-tech safe inside a vault with concrete walls two feet thick.
The rest of the building is more about Novak. He's a strong proponent of employee recognition awards, like a set of smiling teeth mounted on skinny legs with big feet that he's given to countless employees who "walk the talk." He asks his executives to create awards, too. The many on display include a transparent "Show Me the Money" pig filled with Monopoly notes and a Pizza Hut "Big Cheese" award that's worn like a hat, in the Green Bay-cheesehead style.
Novak greets me and two senior public relations executives in his office, itself an homage to what he calls Yum's Famous Recognition Culture. There are photos of employees covering practically every square inch of the walls, all of which appear to include Novak—and in most, nobody has a bigger smile. Today he's wearing a button-down shirt with the Yum! logo. (He made the exclamation point part of the official name to capture the company's sense of fun.) It's mid-October and he's about to fly to Shanghai to teach leadership insights in a two-day workshop with more than 100 managers. He ushers us into a nearby room, where lunch is served. It's an assortment of KFC menu items, including Original Recipe, Extra Crispy, and Kentucky Grilled Chicken, as well as string beans, fries, coleslaw, and biscuits. Between bites of grilled chicken—Novak tends to avoid fried food—he reflects on KFC's much-chronicled success in China. "China has what every business wants—speed," he says. "You have too much doom and gloom in this part of the world."
He turns to talk about Africa and Ghana, a country that wasn't even on Novak's radar screen until he took a trip to South Africa about three years earlier. What excited him was finding the same long lines and energy he had come to associate with China. "You'd see this brand-spanking-new KFC in the middle of this sea of brown shacks, and people were in there, loving the product," he says. While there's little doubt that the continent will be more challenging than China, he thinks it's ripe for explosive growth: "Nothing shows that we're more global than if we can build a business in Africa that no one else has."
That Novak wants to light out for new territory may be as much constitutional as corporate. His father was a surveyor who collected data for maps, and David lived in 32 trailer parks across 23 states by the time he had reached seventh grade. He has a genuine can-do attitude, boyish enthusiasm, and a goofball humor that have endeared him to many of his employees. "David cares deeply about people," says Micky Pant, who heads international operations. "If you spend even five minutes with him, you come out feeling bigger."
Novak is clearly a gifted motivator, though the inspiro-speak can get the better of the company under him. The first line of his letter in the 2010 annual report reads, "I'm especially pleased to report 2010 was another year of significant progress toward achieving our future back vision to be THE DEFINING GLOBAL COMPANY THAT FEEDS THE WORLD." (Capitalization his.) Asked what future back vision meant, a spokesperson wrote, "future back vision is one of the tools we use from our Achieving Breakthrough Results (ABR) training. It's a look forward at what we want the company to become in future years."
Novak has written two books in this vein and is donating the proceeds from his latest, Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen, to the United Nations World Food Programme. He devotes several weeks a year to teaching his trademarked leadership program and offers his services as a motivational speaker with the Washington Speakers Bureau. Those fees, too, are donated to the UN program. He expects his particularly American brand of leadership to be embraced at Yum offices worldwide. "I was told by some people that my 'Western ideas' wouldn't work in places like Asia or Europe," he writes in his latest bestseller. "Boy, were those people wrong."
At home, however, the franchisees are restless, and not only because same-store sales dropped 4.3 percent last year, according to market research firm Technomic. Of more than a dozen franchisees contacted, most declined to speak about management in Louisville on the record, likely because there's no upside to alienating the company that controls their restaurants. Most do say they have yet to feel much love from management, and few display much enthusiasm for its vision of global expansion. Tales of closures or franchisees selling off assets are common. A bankrupt Kazi Foods agreed to sell off 113 KFC units, mostly in the Northeast, on Feb. 23 for $56.2 million, the bulk being debt owed to GE Capital (GE). While owner Zubair Kazi didn't return calls for comment, an executive close to the company says the man who was once the country's second-largest franchisee is "in a state of shock" and blames Yum for disjointed marketing.
Dean Sorgdrager started working at KFC when he was 16 and was a franchisee in Buena Park, Calif., for 21 years before having his license revoked late last year. He describes a business in neglect, where costs mounted as profits fell. Sorgdrager says he had to pay $100,000 to upgrade the outside of one restaurant two years ago, even though the business was losing money at the time. "I asked them if I could delay and they said no, even though the economy had crashed," says Sorgdrager, who is now driving a school bus. When he tried to sell the business for $200,000 after learning he needed a liver transplant, the company rejected the buyer. In November, it was taken away. Even so, he understands that the Yum chief's choices have been good for some. "I think he's managed the company well for shareholders," he says. "I just don't think he's managed the brand well."
Some owners do say they've seen a new spirit of cooperation since John Cywinski became president of KFC's U.S. business in November 2011. Larry Starkey, who owns seven KFCs in New England, met Novak at a workshop organized by Cywinski and found himself inspired. "John has really tried hard to work with us," he says. Cywinski says new initiatives are coming that will have people "talking about KFC in a whole new way" within three to six months.
Tensions between Yum and franchisees worsened after the company's nationwide "Unthink KFC" ad campaign in 2009. Franchisees felt a slogan aimed at promoting grilled chicken undermined the brand, and they sued Yum for marketing control. A judge ruled last year that the two sides had to compromise and get along, and Novak is again talking about a new unity of purpose. He admits that "we're not as reliable as we should be," but he also projects the aura of a man who feels he has been dealt a bum hand. Not only is Novak stuck with a patchwork of cramped, aging outlets in second-tier locations, he also has to deal with franchise owners whose interests may be at odds with his own. Some have long-standing rural outlets that rarely stray beyond fried chicken; others are urban outlets that bear the legacy of a failed co-branding exercise Novak launched several years ago, combining Taco Bells, Pizza Huts, and KFCs into one Franken-fast-food joint, satirized in the film Young Adult as the "Kentacohut." (The move was related to his 2002 purchase of Long John Silver's and A&W, which were sold last year.)
John Gordon of Pacific Management Consulting Group, a restaurant advisory group in San Diego, argues that Novak has "gotten a free pass because of China." In his view, Yum has essentially given up on the market, choosing to squeeze out costs and sell off its assets instead of fixing the problem. Andrew Selden, an attorney at Briggs & Morgan in Minneapolis who represents the independent Association of Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchisees, accuses Novak of chasing easy growth instead of promoting KFC as a place for a quality group meal. "Anyone can build stores on virgin territory," asserts Selden, who wishes the company put more emphasis on the home front. "Meanwhile, there's this priceless asset Yum doesn't value."
Franchise consultant Michael Seid of MSA Worldwide says, "You can't go to franchisees and tell them your big idea is a $10 Sunday bucket." Even McDonald's, which has three times as many U.S. restaurants as KFC, has managed to achieve steady sales growth in recent years through healthier menu choices, smart advertising, and investments in new concepts such as its McCafé drinks. While the hamburger chain plans to open 250 outlets in China this year, it's also spending big to open and upgrade restaurants at home. KFC, in contrast, has imposed costs onto franchisees, and, Cywinski admits, "not had as many innovative products as we'd like." One West Coast franchisee complains that he couldn't even get permission to sell iced tea because of the tight PepsiCo contract. As a result, he says, only 6 percent of his falling sales come from beverages, while the McDonald's down the street gets a quarter of its business from high-margin items such as sodas, peppermint mochas, and smoothies.
It's not like Americans don't enjoy chicken. Per capita consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, rose more than 10 percent from 2001 to 2011. "The idea that Americans no longer want fried chicken is a myth," says Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of AFC Enterprises (AFCE) and president of the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen brand. "They just want it in a range of forms that taste good, and they want to know what they're getting when they walk through your door." Bachelder has increased market share, profits, and the number of stores across the U.S. to 1,627 last year. From 2001 to 2003, she worked alongside Novak as president of KFC's U.S. operations. While she declines to comment on Novak directly, she's taken potshots at KFC through ads and taste tests, and contends that any brand that's shrinking just isn't trying.
The most important person in Bachelder's universe is not the consumer but the franchisee. "If someone is putting all of their capital to work on behalf of your brand, your No. 1 job is to make them successful," she says. That doesn't mean she's not also drawn to the lure of international markets; Popeyes has built more than 400 restaurants abroad. Like Novak, that's where she expects rapid growth to be. "No one has ever given KFC a run for their money in these markets," she says.
On earnings calls, Novak barely speaks of KFC's U.S. business. Some believe he would like to boost the U.S. operation to sell it off and exit the market. "It all comes down to one thing: winning," he says. "You go where you can get results."
While Novak acknowledges that things aren't where he wants them to be in the U.S., he thinks 2012 will be a better year. "[Management writer] Jim Collins always talks about the magic in the 'and,' " he says at KFC headquarters, surrounded by the rubber chickens, windup teeth, and other reminders of the recognition culture he's built. "That's what we're trying to work on: We want to go after all this explosive global growth and grow KFC in the U.S."
Novak contends that he answers to investors. "You can't win without driving shareholder value," he says. "If CEOs say they don't worry about their share price, they're either not very smart or they're lying to you." By that measure, Novak is a hero. "One reason people think I'm a decent CEO inside this company is that our share price is going up," Novak says. "I promise you, if our share price was going the wrong way for three years, there would be people questioning if I should be in this job."
While investors have rewarded Novak, some are starting to worry about the domestic brand. The strategy for winning in emerging markets, for all the excitement and high growth they offer, needs a brand that's popular at home, too. Udo Schlentrich, director of the Rosenberg International Franchise Center, warns that "if you expand overseas at the expense of generating excitement at home, you risk harming brand equity." KFC has always been about more than fried chicken. In the same way that Mercedes-Benz (DAI) anchors its brand in German engineering, KFC is selling the rest of the world a taste of the American dream.
Novak, however, seems determined that what is working now will continue to work. "If you have the capability to be a global company, you should be a global company," he says. "That's a choice we've made, and I feel pretty good about how we've built the business."


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DURBAN, South Africa — International climate change talks emerged from a standoff Sunday, as a Europe-led alliance of countries used a weakened Kyoto Protocol as a bargaining chip to get the rest of the parties to accept a mandate for a comprehensive successor regime.
"We came here with plan A and we concluded with this plan A to save one planet earth for the future of our children and grandchildren," said Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's minister of international relations and cooperation, who chaired the conference.
Countries also agreed to make a multibillion-dollar green-climate fund operational to help developing nations cope with the impacts of global warming, but would still have to build sources for its funding.
"We know when you have a very big problem, when you have a global problem, an international problem, then voluntary means will not be enough to address that problem," said European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard in the midst of the marathon, record-breaking United Nations negotiating session.
"We have seen that many times in history — I could mention the Cold War, I could also take the present economic crisis . . . that government structure is of very big importance. It is necessary in order to get the necessary done."
The Europe-led block, including small-island states and the least-developed nations, had urged the conference to require a binding protocol or legal instrument, to be negotiated within four years and taking effect in 2018.
But they rejected adding a third choice that would allow countries instead to choose another "legal option" in the future to address global warming – an option they believed would be too weak to be binding.
Both China and India, the world's first and third largest annual sources of greenhouse gases, were skeptical, suggesting that industrialized countries, which have historically produced more than half of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, were trying to avoid paying their fair share.
But the countries later brokered a compromise to toughen the wording an ensure that the eventual solution would have legal force but fall under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was founded based on the principle that developed nations should pay for their historic emissions that remain in the atmosphere.
The marathon session was supposed to wrap up on Friday, but instead ended Sunday morning as the longest UN climate summit in 20 years.
Moments before reaching the compromise, Indian Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said her country had made several concessions through the negotiations including accepting the possibility of a legally-binding instrument or protocol, but she questioned whether countries were trying to make India a scapegoat for talks collapsing.
"I'm only wondering if there's an effort here to shift the burden of this entire climate change problem upon countries who have not (co-operated) to nations who have not contributed to this problem and that is wrong," she said, before the proposal was modified.
China's lead negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, stressed that his country took legally-binding agreements seriously and was prepared to honour its commitments. But he questioned why the developed nations were not able to do the same under the Kyoto Protocol.
"We developing countries, will be very serious in our implementation of these documents," said Xie, speaking through a translator. "We are taking actions (and) we want to see your real actions."
Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, had also said he was comfortable with the original wording that provided the non-binding option, but did not immediately say whether he agreed with the new proposal.
Canada, Russia and Japan have all refused to take on a second round of commitments under Kyoto, the existing-legally binding treaty, after its existing commitments expire in 2013.
The nations were also slated to continue negotiating the length of the next commitment period of the Kyoto agreement at a conference next year.
The United States are a member of the framework convention, but never ratified the Kyoto agreement.


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MIAMI - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 24 foreign nationals during a six-day enforcement action in South Florida targeting convicted criminal aliens identified in violation of U.S. immigration law.
The enforcement operation, which began Feb. 15 and ended on Thursday, Feb. 24, targeted at-large criminal aliens with convictions for drug trafficking, violent crimes and sex offenses.
Nineteen of the individuals had criminal records, including murder and drug trafficking, four were ICE fugitives with final orders of deportation and one had been previously deported.
"Arresting convicted criminals and immigration fugitives is a top priority for ICE ERO," said Marc Moore, field office director for ICE ERO in Miami. "Those who come to the United States to prey upon our neighbors and communities will be prosecuted for their crimes and ultimately returned to their home countries. The results of this and last week's operation demonstrate ICE's commitment to making our communities safer for everyone."
All 24 were arrested administratively for being in violation of immigration law, and all are being held in ICE custody pending immigration removal proceedings or removal from the United States.
The 24 alien arrests include 10 arrests in Miami-Dade County, four arrests in Broward County and 10 arrests in Monroe County. The overall criminal alien arrests include 20 men and four women, representing six different nations, including countries in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
ICE ERO officers arrested:
- A 35-year-old citizen and national of Colombia, residing in Broward County, Fla. He has a prior 2008 conviction in Palm Beach County, Fla. for domestic battery by strangulation.
- A 33-year-old citizen and national of Honduras, residing in Miami-Dade County, Fla. He has prior 2010 convictions in Miami-Dade County for murder, possession of a deadly weapon, aggravated battery, child abuse, causing great bodily harm and torture.
- A 44-year-old citizen and national of Honduras, residing in Miami, Fla. His prior criminal convictions in Miami-Dade County from 1990 to 2011 include simple assault, resisting officer without violence, cocaine possession, fleeing/eluding police officer, disorderly intoxication, carrying a concealed weapon, battery, drinking in public, trespassing, obstructing a police officer and cannabis possession. He illegally re-entered the United States after being deported in 1991.
- A 19-year-old citizen and national of Haiti, residing in Key West, Fla. He has a prior 2010 conviction in Monroe County for selling and possessing cocaine.
- A 35-year-old citizen and national of Haiti, residing in Key West. He has prior 2003 to 2010 convictions in Monroe County for cocaine distribution within 1000 feet of a church or school, battery and criminal mischief. He has also been identified as a member of the Zoe Pound gang in Key West.
Those who have outstanding orders of deportation, or who returned to the United States illegally after being deported, are subject to immediate removal from the country. The remaining individuals are in ICE custody awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge, or pending travel arrangements for removal in the near future.
This enforcement operation is just one facet of the Department of Homeland Security's broader strategy to heighten the federal government's effectiveness at identifying and removing dangerous criminal aliens from the United States.


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Learn the basics of Japanese with a fun series of alphabet worksheets! Hiragana is a basic part of the Japanese writing system, easy enough for your child to learn too. These sheets are great for beginning Japanese speakers, or a kindergartener who needs to build reading/writing skills.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Kindo joins the MyHeritage Family
The acquisition of Kindo by MyHeritage was completed yesterday.
Congratulations to Nils, Gareth, Mario and the Kindo team.
Clearly their technology was some way off that of MyHeritage but what they achieved in creating a brand with real personality in 11 languages with very little cash was truly impressive.
Their grass roots marketing using local 'community managers' demonstrated just how rapidly a viral service can grow without any PPC marketing.
Combining the social features of Kindo and The MyHeritage technology and enormous user base takes the combined business closer to its vision for building the 'Facebook for the Family'.
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Seedcamp - Day 5
Seedcamp Day 5 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Seedcamp - Day 4
Seedcamp Day 4 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Seedcamp Day 3
Seedcamp Day 3 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Seedcamp - Day 2
Seedcamp Day 2 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.
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Seedcamp day one
Seedcamp 2008 Day 1 Highlights from Seedcamp on Vimeo.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Looking Forward to Seedcamp 08
One of the highlights of my year - without a doubt - is Seedcamp. The one week of mentoring, networking, working, learning is really exhilarating.
Seedcamp is itself a start-up and its formation, evolution, development and growth is not unlike many of the start-ups in which I have been involved.
In my view, Seedcamp is destined to become a significant brand in the technology world. A founder with amazing vision (Saul), strong backing and goodwill from almost all the leading players in the industry and a brilliantly determined and smart CEO (Reshma) is a pretty good cocktail.
As was made clear last year, Seedcamp is not all about the relatively small amount of funding which the winners receive, it is designed to provide a publicity platform, an incredible network and some intensive and expert mentoring to the 20 or so finalists.
Every day this week, Seedcamp will be featuring highlights of the day on their site. Check it out.
The blog too has loads of interesting stuff - I particularly liked Michael Orland's post on the Zeitgeist:
It read in part: "Our 2008 application zeitgeist post exactly one month ago generated some attention, which is why when it was suggested we do a follow-up for our finalists I was a little hesitant. There's a fine line between a useful device and a gimmick, and I feared we might stray into the latter territory. After actually performing the analysis though, I see there are some interesting contrasts: "mobile" has dropped off the top of the "what are you creating?" list to be replaced by "travel", "advertising" is less of a top-line panacea (and yes, we realize the tautology of "revenue" as a way to make money - thankfully it was substantiated a bit more than that), and Amazon has replaced Google as the cloud solution of choice. There are other differences as well - which is why I'll cease my yammering and leave you to draw your own conclusions."
You should read the whole article.
As Michael acknowleges, its a bit of fun ....but ...interesting to see what teams are building and what the judges thought was going to be most successful.
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Description: I may have mentioned what the series 'Blue Exorcist' is about with the tutorial I submitted on Rin. Today I will be showing you "how to draw Blue Exorcist" in the form of letters, and along with the tutorial, I will try and explain what the series is about a whole lot better than I did before. To make things short and sweet, Blue Exorcist follows the life of a young teenager named Rin Okumura. As the boy grew, it was clear that he had this unexplained abnormal strength and stamina that no other boy had. Rin was raised by Father Shiro Fujimoto, and along with the good Father, he also had a twin brother named Yukio. As the two get older they both take different paths. Rin's younger brother goes off to school to take up the studies at True Cross Academy, and Rin stays behind to learn that he and his brother are the sons of the most powerful demon in the world, Satan. The explanation as to how Rin is so strong and powerful is evident, and when he witnesses the death of Father Shiro, Rin fills up with anger and wants to retaliate for his loss. Rin embarks on a journey to do something that he thought he would never do. As he readies himself, he also takes the Kurikara with him. The Kurikara is a sword that only has one purpose, to slay demons. By possessing the blade, Rin's demon powers are restrained, and the only thing that shows what Rin is, are the demon like features he obtains like the pointed elven like ears, the fangs on his teeth, a tail, and most importantly, the ability to set himself up in an inferno of blue flames that can demolish anything it touches. Rin was a pretty cool character to draw, and even though I stink at making letters on my tablet, I still went ahead to make a lesson on "how to draw Blue Exorcist". Have fun guys, and if you're familiar with this anime/manga, let others know if it's worth checking out.


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Thread: A draft section?
A draft section?
There are a number of great draft related threads already in the Ravens 24x7 forum, but they tend to get buried in all the other Ravens related news.
Anyone else think it might be a good idea to get a special draft subsection and move some threads there?
Oh, and if we do get a draft section, we need a sticky thread for potential UDFAs we want to see in purple. If Mike Duffy (on his Big Board blog) again asks for suggestions for UDFAs we need to be ready this year. :D
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This would be really nice.
I plan on doing my draft tracker again this year and that would be a great place to do it...I plan on tracking both 1st and 2nd round selections this year given....erm....the single digit selection the team is likely to possess.
It'd also be a great spot for all of those salary cap-articles and analysis. Some of them are buried and it would be stellar to have links to those stickied in the draft forum.
Also perhaps someone can volunteer to be the free-agent tracker this year?
I think it'd be a great addition to the website!!! :hammer:Just win baby...
Re: A draft section?
We're discussing it. We'll let ya know soon.Screw 'em all
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- ID Guessing
- Solen ID's
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Main-In-The-Middle Attack
- Gain access to the users cookie
In this tutorial we will look at intercepting the session cookie (before ASP.NET sees it), taking the MAC (Message Authentication Code), and creating our own MAC, based on the session ID, the users IP address and their User Agent. Our class will also rely on a validation key that is stored in the web.config file. The key will be based on a MD5 hash of a string, and should be different for all applications this is used for. Make sure your key is long and random, shorter keys are easier to guess. We will also be creating a custom Exception that will be used in the class.
Before we start, here's a short method you can use to create the MD5 hash for your validation key. It employs the MD5CryptoServiceProvider Class in the System.Security.Cryptography Namespace:
/// <summary> /// method to generate a MD5 hash of a string /// </summary> /// <param name="strToHash">string to hash</param> /// <returns>hashed string</returns> public string GenerateMD5(string str) { MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); byte[] byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(str); byteArray = md5.ComputeHash(byteArray); string hashedValue = ""; foreach (byte b in byteArray) { hashedValue += b.ToString("x2"); } return hashedValue; }
Now that we have the creation of the key covered, lets start making our secure session class. First and foremost, as with all classes you write, you need to make sure you have the proper Namespace's for your class, in this case we need seven of them:
using System; using System.Web; using System.Text; using System.Web.Security; using System.Configuration; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Globalization;
Now we need any global variables, in this case we have a single global, the variable that will hold the value of our key
private static string secretKey = null;
This class is designed to operate completely silent, meaning it works in the background with zero interaction from the developer whatsoever. Our class inherits the IHttpModule Interface.
First thing we will do is call the Init() and Dispose() Methods of the IHttpModule. In the Init() Method we will first check the value of our global variable secretKey, if it doesn't have a value we will initialize it.
We then wire up two Event Handlers, these will handle the BeginRequest Event and the EndRequest Event of the HttpApplication Class. The Dispose() method is a blank method, but it is required when inheriting from the IHttpModule Interface.
/// <summary> /// method to initialize our class when the page is initialized /// </summary> /// <param name="application"></param> public void Init(HttpApplication application) { //find out of we have a validation key, if we dont initialize it if (secretKey == null) secretKey = GetKey(); //register event handlers for the BeginRequest and EndRequest events application.BeginRequest += new EventHandler(onbeginRequest); application.EndRequest += new EventHandler(onendRequest); } public void Dispose() { }
Now the Event Handler, we have two to write up:
- onbeginRequest: Handles all transactions at the start of the request cycle
- onendRequest: Handles all transactions at the very end of the request cycle
/// <summary> /// method for handling the HttpApplication.BeginRequest event /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> public void onbeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { //get the current Request HttpRequest currentRequest = ((HttpApplication)sender).Request; //get the ASP.NET_SessionId cookie from the Request object HttpCookie requestCookie = RetrieveRequestCookie(currentRequest, "ASP.NET_SessionId"); //check to see if the cookie exists (if == null) if (requestCookie != null) { //if the length is less than 24 we dont have a MAC so we need to throw an exception (our custom exception) if (requestCookie.Value.Length <= 24) throw new SessionerrorException("Invalid Session"); //get the session id string sessionID = requestCookie.Value.Substring(0, 24); //get the MAC string mac = requestCookie.Value.Substring(24); //create a new MAC based on the session id and some of the users info (user agent, etc) string macCompare = CreateMAC(sessionID, currentRequest.UserHostAddress, currentRequest.UserAgent, secretKey); //check to see if the MAC's match, if not we have a problem if (String.CompareOrdinal(mac, macCompare) != 0) throw new SessionerrorException("Invalid Session"); //set the cookies value to the session id requestCookie.Value = sessionID; } }
In the onendRequest we grab the response cookie and make sure it isn't null (that would mean someone has hijacked the session), if all is OK we append our newly created MAC value to the end of the cookie, and this can be compared during the next BeginRequest Event, which will be the next page load for the application.
/// <summary> /// method for handling the HttpApplication.EndRequest event /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> public void onendRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { //capture the current request HttpRequest currentRequest = ((HttpApplication)sender).Request; //get the session cookie HttpCookie sessionCookie = RetrieveResponseCookie(((HttpApplication)sender).Response, "ASP.NET_SessionId"); //make sure the cookie isnt null if (sessionCookie != null) { //add our newly generated MAC to the cookie at the end of the request sessionCookie.Value += CreateMAC(sessionCookie.Value, currentRequest.UserHostAddress, currentRequest.UserAgent, secretKey); } }
In our Init() we called a method GetKey, which we use to initialize our secretKey variable. This method simply checks the web.config file for the SessionKey section and returns the value. An exception will be thrown if this value doesn't exist in the web.config:
/// <summary> /// method for retrieving the validation key from the web.config /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> private string GetKey() { //get the key string validationKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SessionKey"]; //check for a null or empty key. If so throw our exception if (validationKey == null || validationKey == String.Empty) throw new SessionerrorException("SessionKey not found. Application ending"); //return the key return validationKey; }
We have four more methods to look at in this class (before we get to our custom Exception class). They are
- RetrieveRequestCookie: Used to retrieve the current Request cookie.
- RetrieveResponseCookie: Used to retrieve the current Response cookie.
- FindTheCookie: Used to find a cookie by it's name.
- CreateMAC: Used to generate our custom MAC value for the session cookie.
/// <summary> /// method for retrieving the Request cookies /// </summary> /// <param name="currentRequest"></param> /// <param name="cookieName"></param> /// <returns></returns> private HttpCookie RetrieveRequestCookie(HttpRequest currentRequest, string cookieName) { HttpCookieCollection cookieCollection = currentRequest.Cookies; return FindTheCookie(cookieCollection, cookieName); } /// <summary> /// method for retrieving the Response cookies /// </summary> /// <param name="currentResponse"></param> /// <param name="cookieName"></param> /// <returns></returns> private HttpCookie RetrieveResponseCookie(HttpResponse currentResponse, string cookieName) { HttpCookieCollection cookies = currentResponse.Cookies; return FindTheCookie(cookies, cookieName); }
FindTheCookie takes an HttpCookieCollection and a name as a parameter. From there it loops the length of the HttpCookieCollection passed to it comparing each cookie name with the name provided. If it finds a match it returns that HttpCookie, otherwise it returns null
/// <summary> /// method for retrieving a cookie by it's name /// </summary> /// <param name="cookieCollection">the cookie collection to search</param> /// <param name="cookieName">the cookie we're looking for</param> /// <returns></returns> private HttpCookie FindTheCookie(HttpCookieCollection cookieCollection, string cookieName) { for (int i = 0; i < cookieCollection.Count; i++) { if (string.Compare(cookieCollection[i].Name, cookieName, true, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) == 0) return cookieCollection[i]; } return null; }
Now we just need to generate a MAC for our session cookie. This is done by appending the current session id with the first segment of the users IP address and his User Agent. We then use the HMACSHA1 Class to generate a new MAC for the cookie:
/// <summary> /// method for generating a new MAC for our session cookie /// </summary> /// <param name="id">current session id</param> /// <param name="ipAddress">ip address of the current Request</param> /// <param name="userAgent">current user's User Agent</param> /// <param name="validationKey">validation key from the web.config</param> /// <returns></returns> private string CreateMAC(string id, string ipAddress, string userAgent, string validationKey) { //create an instance of the StringBuilder with a max length of 512 StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(id, 512); //append the first segment of the user's ip address to the string sb.Append(ipAddress.Substring(0, ipAddress.IndexOf('.', ipAddress.IndexOf('.') + 1))); //append the users User Agent to the string sb.Append(userAgent); using (HMACSHA1 hmac = new HMACSHA1(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(validationKey))) { return Convert.ToBase64String(hmac.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sb.ToString()))); } }
Creating a custom Exception class is fairly straight forward so I am just going to post the code with little or no explanation. For more information on creating your own exception classes, read this on Creating Custom Exception In .Net, it has some pretty good information in it.
[Serializable] public class SessionerrorException : Exception { public SessionerrorException() : base("Invalid Session") { } public SessionerrorException(string message) : base(message) { } public SessionerrorException(string message, Exception inner) : base(message, inner) { } protected SessionerrorException(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context) : base(info, context) { } }
Now that we have the coding part done, that is creating the module and the custom Exception, there are some things we need to add to the web.config file in order to wrap this up. First is the validation key, which should be a long random string generated with a MD5 hash. This should be placed in the <appSettings> section of your web.config file, and should look like this
<appSettings> <add key="SessionKey" value="3595381625A3DCC07E84E626939254834E0FD16B"/> </appSettings>
My particular key is a MD5 hash based on a 11 character word (that will remain a secret). The last thing we need to do is register this HttpModule in our web.config. As you can image this needs to go in the <httpModules> section of the web.config. That looks like this
<httpModules> <add name="SecureSession" type="RLM.Core.Components.Security.SecureSession, SecureSession"/> </httpModules>
The syntax for registering a module is
<add name="YourName" type="YourNamespace.YourClassName, YourProjectName"/>
<add name="YourName" type="YourNamespace.YourClassName, YourProjectName"/>
There you have it, a way to fight session hijacking in your ASP.NET applications. Remember, there is no 100% foolproof way to prevent this, this class is simply meant as one way to make it harder for hackers to hijack your users sessions, and thus giving them access to the users information. I provide no warranty, either implicit or not, with this code, and I make no guarantees of any kind. When it comes to dealing with security all you can hope to do is to make it harder for hackers to do their job.
I hope you found this tutorial informative and useful. Thank you for reading and see you soon
Happy Coding!


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Boise beat Yakima on Wednesday night 3-2 in a thrilling winner take all game three. Felix Pena was the story in this one pitching seven scoreless innings allowing five hits and striking out two. The Hawks got the scoring started as they scored three in the third inning. Wilson Contreras started the inning with a walk and moved to second on a wild pitch. Trey Martin followed with a single and runners were on at the corners with Gioskar Amaya at the plate. Contreras scored the first Boise run on a wild pitch and after an Amaya walk, Stephen Bruno flew out for the first out of the inning. Jeimer Candelario walked to load the bases for Dan Vogelbach who hit a towering fly ball to left. It appeared the left fielder Michael Lang was under it, but he lost it in the lights and the ball fell for a single driving in two more runs. Marco Hernandez grounded into a double play and the third inning ended with Boise up 3-0. Felix Pena continued throwing up zeros and the game went to the bottom of the eighth with the Hawks leading 3-0. Brian Smith relieved Pena and got in trouble right away giving up a single to the first batter and walking the second. The next batter hit a slow ground ball to Gioskar Amaya who attempted to get the force out at second base, but threw it away and the Bears now had one run in and runners on second and third. Yakima added a run and moved the tying run to third base after a ground out to Amaya. Eduardo Orozco relieved Smith and got a big strike out for the second out of the inning. With the tying run on third base Jacob House hit a ball up the middle that Gioskar Amaya made a diving stop on and threw House out from his knees for the third out of the eighth. Boise threatened in the ninth, but came up empty and it was onto the bottom half with Boise up 3-2. Orozco stayed in the game and quickly got the first out via the strikeout. The next batter grounded out to Amaya and Boise was now one out away from the series. The last chance for Yakima, the speedy Michael Lang hit a slow roller to shortstop Marco Hernandez who came up with a great play to give Boise the win and NWL East Division Championship. Orozco was great in relief recording the last five outs, notching his first save of the postseason and giving Felix Pena the win. Albert Almora had another hit on Wednesday, bringing his average to .417 in the three game series. Boise will travel to Vancouver to play game one on Thursday night, with game two and game three if necessary to be held in Boise on Saturday and Sunday.
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Oysters Rockefeller Soup
Oysters Rockefeller is a classic combination of oysters on the half shell bathed in a luscious green sauce, sprinkled with a little cheese and broiled until bubbly. Here, the combination of ingredients is simmered together for a soup that has all the flavor of the original dish.
The soup is simpler to prepare than the classic, since the recipe calls for shucked oysters. And, the soup can be partially made ahead. Just prepare the soup up to the addition of the oyster liquor, heavy cream and half and half. At serving time, bring the mixture to a boil and add the oysters and remaining ingredients.
Chopping the fresh spinach in my Viking food processor really cuts preparation time. If you'd rather use frozen spinach, simply substitute a cup of frozen chopped spinach. Drain the spinach well and chop very finely before adding to the soup. While the recipe calls for spinach as the "green" ingredient, you can substitute finely chopped romaine or Bibb lettuce for part of the spinach, giving the soup a milder green color and a flavor even more reminiscent of the New Orleans classic.
Add oysters, spinach and Herbsaint or other liqueur. Season with salt and pepper. Ladle into bowls and sprinkle each serving with some of the shredded cheese.
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type ProfileReader = IO Profile
type ProfileSink = SinkInput -> IO ()
readProfile :: FilePath -> IO Profile
profile :: CreateProcess -> IO (ProfileReader,ProcessHandle)
profileCallback :: CreateProcess -> ProfileSink -> IO ProcessHandle
readProfile function can parse an .hp file from an earlier run and build an easy to query structure from it. The
profile function takes a process to run and returns an IO action that lets the caller look at the snapshot of the profile at the given moment. For those who want to manage profiling data on their own, the
profileCallback function is provided, which takes a callback function that's called whenever some new piece of information is available. Its input has the following form:
data SinkInput = SinkSample Time ProfileSample
| SinkId CostCentreId CostCentreName
| SinkStop
There are three possibilities: a snapshot that lists active cost centres with their associated costs, an association between a numeric id (created by the library, used in the samples) and the name of the cost centre, and an indication that no more data should be expected. Note that
SinkInput is an instance of
Show, therefore
print can be used as a callback function.
For the time being, the following functions are provided to query the
Profile structure:
type CostCentreId = Int
type CostCentreName = String
type Time = Double
type Cost = Int
type ProfileSample = [(CostCentreId,Cost)]
costCentreName :: Profile -> CostCentreId -> Maybe CostCentreName
costCentreNames :: Profile -> [(CostCentreId,CostCentreName)]
toList :: Profile -> [(Time,ProfileSample)]
intervalToList :: Profile -> Time -> Time -> [(Time,ProfileSample)]
profileLength :: Profile -> Time
Caveat: it's all preliminary and makes no attempt at being efficient, but it seems to work fine at first glance. Do play with it and shower me with your comments. :)