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Kenya: meetings in Nairobi of the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
NEW YORK, February 1, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In meetings with Kenyan authorities in Nairobi today, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, stressed the importance of efforts by all Kenyans and their institutions to ensure the upcoming elections are credible, transparent and peaceful. He commended the electoral authorities for their preparations and underscoring the readiness of the United Nations to continue providing support to the electoral process.
Mr. Feltman met the Chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission of Kenya (IEBC), Mr. Ahmed Issack Hassan, the Chief Justice, Hon. Willy Mutunga, and the Attorney-General, Hon. Githu Muigai. Under-Secretary-General Feltman oversees UN support to elections globally as the organization's Focal Point for UN Electoral Assistance.
In his meeting with the Chairman of the IEBC, the Under-Secretary-General congratulated the Commission for its recent achievements, including the successful conduct of the registration of voters in record time. He also reiterated the readiness of the United Nations for continuous financial and technical support for the remaining critical phases of the electoral process.
USG Feltman commended efforts being made to avoid any repeat of past violence.
"Kenya's elections will be watched closely around the world," he said. "Let me take this opportunity to appeal to all Kenyans to exercise their democratic right and participate actively – but peacefully – in the elections. Let me also underscore the responsibility shared by leaders at all levels to abide by legal mechanisms and to send a clear message to supporters that violence of any kind would be unacceptable."


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Paralympians prepare for Beijing via Oklahoma
As of July 9, 2008, all 12 players on the national team will be living and training on UCO's campus. The players and coaches have collected from 10 states around the U.S. in order to give the national team the best shot at bringing home gold.
UCO's Wellness Center is the home for the team's training and two weeklong camps scheduled to start July 21 and Aug. 4.
The U.S. Paralympic Women's Sitting Volleyball team also has tentative matches scheduled to face the Canadian Women's National team. The exhibitions will be held at UCO on July 17 through July 20, 2008.
After training in Oklahoma, the national team will leave for Colorado Springs, Colo. on Aug. 16 for a final training camp before they leave for Beijing.
The 2008 Paralympic Games will take place Sept. 6 through Sept. 17.
Sitting volleyball is an extremely fast paced sport whose rules and strategy are similar to standing volleyball. Some notable differences in sitting volleyball are the players must remain on their hindquarters when hitting the ball, the net is lowered to around three feet, and a smaller court size.
UCO, a Paralympic Training Site, is home to eight Paralympic resident athletes. Of the permanent residents, three are members of the US Women's Sitting Volleyball team.
For more information regarding the Paralympic program at UCO, please contact Elliot Blake with UCO Disabled Sports at (405) 974-3153.


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DVD previews: 'The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2', 'Red Dawn,' 'Wreck-It Ralph,' more
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2" (PG-13, 115 minutes, Lionsgate): For those with no vested interest in this protracted and supernatural soap opera, this will be a silly and somewhat cheesily made waste of time. It opens with our once-mortal heroine, Bella (Kristen Stewart), who has just given birth to a half-human, half-vampire baby, Renesmee, with her new, undead husband, Edward (Robert Pattinson). The story clicks in after word reaches the Volturi -- the vampire world's governing elite -- that Renesmee may be a vampire baby who threatens to expose their carefully hidden vampire subculture. As Aro, the leader of the Volturi, Michael Sheen is a rare delight as he attempts to determine whether Edward and his family must be punished and Renesmee destroyed. It ain't much, but it passes for drama -- if by "drama" you mean a climactic showdown in a field of snow between the powerful, berobed Volturi and a ragtag band of the "good" vampires, now in league with Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and his pack of giant CGI werewolves. Contains sensuality and violence. Extras: commentary with director Bill Condon; seven-part making-of documentary; "Two Movies at Once" featurette on the simultaneous shooting of both "Breaking Dawn" parts, "Jump to" features that allow viewers to watch only their favorite Edward or Jacob scenes; "The Forgotten" Green Day music video.
Also: "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" (extended edition, with eight minutes of new footage added by Condon and commentary with Condon).
"Red Dawn" (PG-13, 94 minutes, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment): North Korean soldiers substitute for the original Soviet bad guys in a remake of the 1984 action film about high school kids from the American heartland forced to become guerrilla warriors when their small town is invaded. This amped-up retread is a big improvement over the original, but that's not saying much. Much of the speechifying comes from Jed (Chris Hemsworth), a brooding Marine on home leave who is left in charge of his brother Matt (Josh Peck) and several of Matt's teenage friends after they slip through the clutches of the brutal North Korean prefect. Jed quickly recruits the kids to the cause of resistance, and the rest of the film is spent showing their training and tactics as they evolve into a crack squad of freedom fighters. It's moderately good fun, even if it comes with a heaping helping of baloney. The glibness and superficiality of the proceedings never allow us to care deeply about anything or anyone. Ultimately, the problem with this "Red Dawn" is the same problem with the first. Despite the more realistic battles, nothing feels more fateful than a football game. Contains obscenity, gunplay and violence. Extras: four making-of featurettes.
"Wreck-It Ralph" (PG, 108 minutes, Disney): The 3-D animated comedy is the story of a goofy bad guy out of a retro arcade game who "game jumps," leaving his cloistered universe in search of fulfillment in other games. It's a clever and original idea, with lots of cute sight gags. But the narrative itself is overly busy, noisy and unengaging, with little of the heart that charmed "Toy Story" viewers. The voice casting here works well. In the title role of a hulking destroyer who dreams of becoming a hero, John C. Reilly evokes the pathos of an outsider. And Sarah Silverman is pretty perfect as Vanellope von Schweetz, a tomboyish driver in a kiddie drag-racing game. Like Ralph, Vanellope aspires to video-game greatness. Their unexpected friendship is one of the nicest things about the movie. The tangled plot may please gamers who are used to processing complex, seemingly never-ending story lines, but it's needless clutter in a movie geared toward a young audience. Contains mild video game violence and bathroom humor. Extras: "Bit by Bit: Creating the Worlds of Wreck-It Ralph" behind-the-scenes featurette; alternate and deleted scenes; video game commercials for Fix It Felix Jr., Sugar Rush, Hero's Duty and Fix It Felix Hammer; "Paperman," Oscar-winning animated short film that played in theaters before "Wreck It Ralph." Also, on Blu-ray: "Disney Intermission: The Gamer's Guide to Wreck-It-Ralph," a series of 10 video segments offering an inside look at the many video game references, Disney references and other hidden surprises featured in the film.
"The Intouchables" (R, 112 minutes, in French with English subtitles, The Weinstein Co./Sony): A box-office smash in France, this is a feel-good movie about a distinctly feel-bad subject -- quadriplegia. The fact-based story, which focuses on the relationship between Philippe (Francois Cluzet), a white millionaire paralyzed in a paragliding accident, and Driss (Omar Sy), the black hustler who becomes his live-in caregiver, neatly avoids most of the mess and stress of the subject. Aside from a scene or two hinting at Driss' initial reluctance to change Philippe's diapers, there's little to suggest that there's anything terribly disagreeable about the setup. The two go for breakneck car rides, goof around with shaving cream and, in general, have a great time. The lens through which the "The Intouchables" was filmed may be too rose-colored for some people's taste, but the window that these talented performers throw open -- a window onto the strange and touching friendship between two very different men -- is crystal clear. Contains obscenity, drug use and some suggestive material. Extras: Deleted scenes.
Also: "Playing for Keeps," "Lay the Favorite," "The Bay," "Garbage," "California Solo," "A Dark Truth," "Interview With a Hitman," "Midnight Stallion," "Abducted: The Carlina White Story," "Scavenger Hunt," "The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond," "Muay Thai Warrior" (2010, Thailand), "The Seven Year Hitch," (Hallmark Channel), "Care Bears: Totally Sweet Adventures," "Collaborator," "The Marine 3: Homefront," "Power Rangers: Clash of the Red Rangers -- The Movie ," "Sophia the First: Once Upon a Princess" (animated, Disney), "Tom and Jerry: Pint-Sized Pals," "Tom and Jerry: Musical Mayhem," "Tyler Perry's House of Payne: Volume Ten," "Strawberry Shortcake: Berry Friends Forever" and "Eaters" (Italy).
Television series: "Duck Dynasty Season 2: Volume 1" (A&E), "Thorne" (Encore miniseries), "LEGO Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu Season 2" (Cartoon Network), "Murdoch Mysteries Collection: Seasons 1-4," "Murdoch Mysteries: Season 5," "H20: Just Add Water" (the complete seasons 1, 2 and 3, Teen Nickelodeon) and "Regular Show: Party Pack" (Cartoon Network).


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|Our journal sheet for this activity
|Using a door hinge as a conductor
They were to test the items to determine if they were insulators or conductors. They did this by adding them to their circuits and observing whether or not they light came on. When they finished, they were to go around the room and find other things to test. Here are some pictures of the items they tested.
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Meet Barnabas Piper, a writer, team member of Ministry Grid, and a contributor to multiple blogs and publications (including WorldMag.com, Leadership Journal, Tabletalk Magazine, Relevant.com, The Gospel Coalition blog, and DesiringGod.org). Barnabas is also a PK—a pastor's kid, and the son of a Christian-famous one, at that. In anticipation of the release of his new book, The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity (look for a review soon), Barnabas took a few minutes to chat (via email) about the book, the life of a PK and how parents can keep their kids from hating ministry.
I promised I wouldn't ask you the standard "why'd you write this book" question, and I'm sticking to that. (After all, it's pretty obvious why you did.) So, here's the real first question: what impressed me when reading the book is how you managed to keep the tone as positive as you did. How challenging was it maintain this without sugarcoating the real difficulties that come with being a PK?
So much of what passes for "authentic" or "honest" writing these days is simply the lancing of emotional boils all over one's readers. So my challenge was to be genuinely honest but also tasteful. As I wrote I kept the words "honor your father and mother" at the forefront of my mind to help me be thoughtful and conscientious. At the same time I needed to expose and explain certain realities and do so with clarity. I hope that as I tried to negotiate between honoring my parents and being bluntly forthright I was forceful without being a drag.
One of the things you mentioned in the book is that your theology differs in some respects from your dad's. What were some of the ways he helped give you space to work out what you believe and how might other pastors do likewise for their kids?
Much of my differing came after I moved away from home. We've had some pointed conversations about our differences and have come to an understanding that some topics are best not argued about. To be clear, my dad did not make me believe anything growing up, but for anyone who's ever listened to him preach or read his writings he leaves little room to disagree. So, for me, it was space that led to my opportunity to think in a different direction. And since then, I have worked to be respectful of his views, not pick needless arguments, and center on those things we do agree on—the essentials of the Christian faith.
While much of your experience is similar to that of the average PK, you've also got the added crazy of having a Christian-famous dad. How have you managed to handle the extra-wide bubble and not lose your mind?
Who's to say I haven't lost my mind?
Just kidding. Much of it had to do with the fact that the fame for him came gradually as I grew up and didn't become more pronounced until I was in late high school and then in college. That meant I was a little bit more ready to roll with it and figure it out at a (somewhat) mature level. I haven't always handled it well. At times I have resented people for how they treated me or gushed over my dad. It's hard to meet people and for them to have expectations of what I'll be like because of my last name.
But at some point I realized I could either be annoyed all the time or just roll with it. People aren't trying to be invasive or to put expectations on me. Many genuinely love my dad, and although that can be weird, it's generally a kind of nice weird. The bottom line is that I have been shown a lot of grace, and I would be an ingrate not to show some to others, especially when they have good intentions.
My kids aren't PKs, but they are caught in the bubble due to my day job and extra curricular activities. What advice do you have to help parents like me protect our kids from hating everything about ministry in all its forms?
Help them see that you love them more than ministry and help them see what you love about the ministry. If your kids know you'd drop ministry in a second for them they won't feel like it's an imposition. If they see that, while you love ministry, you find greater happiness with them they won't feel like it's a rival. If they see that you enjoy it and that it is meaningful to you it will be seen as a positive thing over all, something to be part of rather than fled from.
The Pastor's Kid is now available from your favorite resellers (and Amazon, too). Connect with Barnabas on Twitter (@BarnabasPiper), Facebook and at his blog.


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Why Dow Could Hit 17,000 This Year
Dow 17,000 could be in within range by the end of the year, and european investors are looking for value. Barron's Online Editor Jack Otter joins The News Hub with a preview of this week's magazine.
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According to Bennett - who is not keen on the forthcoming Darwin Shrewsbury Festival - "No creature or plant can 'improve' its stock of DNA. It simply inherits its DNA from its parents. No new information is generated. The question therefore is: "Who gave us our DNA in the first place?"


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Offenses will come. We live in a world of diversity; different origins, customs, traditions and values. In a world that exemplifies culture will have their share of offenses.
Acknowledging when you are wrong or have said something wrong takes a mature person, a person of great understanding. This is very important because we live in a society that thrives from news, opinions and comments. This is why you should think before you speak.
In the world of information technology, your actions and speech is captured to be place on display for decision, remarks, comments and sometimes judgment. Now, you may be the type of person that don't care what others think, but, their opinions, comments and viewpoints can sometimes effect you directly, especially financially. Your brand image and reputation could be on the line. You really should keep this in mind.
There used to be a time in our society where disruptive comments and actions were permitted, especially if you were of a certain persuasion or social economic status. Today, your job, reputation and social status could be placed in jeopardy by your inappropriate comments or actions.
You may even think it's not fair, but, sometimes this kind of system could work to the advantage of a better more peaceful work-place and society. Adults will begin to give accountability, responsibility and consideration for their mis-conduct, where they sometimes may have felt they did not have to. They may even begin to grow and develop in certain areas of their character, the area of acceptance, kindness and esteem for others. Now that's a good thing.
More importantly, we as a people and society must learn to forgive. Why? We are an imperfect, growing, learning people and nation. It's necessary for our growth, progression and existence. Forgiveness is very important because no one is perfect. No one is absent from fault. The ability to recognize this will cause individuals to be more aware of their own flaws and maybe spend more time cleaning up their bad habits, attitudes and character and will be looking for leniency and another opportunity to make right when they have done wrong. I call this the boomerang effect.
So remember, forgiveness is a choice not a feeling. Time will heal but forgiveness is needed for the healing and redemption of a people and a nation.
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Topic: HMahavishnu Project, What Jan Hammer says
Posted: March 07 2006 at 09:32
Glenn Alexander, guitar [L.Shankar/Randy Brecker]
Adam Holzman, keyboards [Miles Davis/Wayne Shorter]
Rob Thomas, violin [Tito Puente/Andy Summers]
Dave Johnsen, bass &n bsp; [ProjectObject: Music of Zappa]
Gregg Bendian, drums [Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny]
[Highlights from "The Inner Mounting Flame", "Birds Of Fire" & "The Lost Trident Sessions"]
Sat. March 11, 2006 (8pm - two sets)
Orion Sound Studios
2903 Whittington Ave
Baltimore MD 21230
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Admission: $15 General Admission (BYO Chairs, Beverages, etc.)
The newest incarnation of The Mahavishnu Project will perform "The Complete Masterworks" at Orion Sound Studios in Baltimore on Saturday, March 11th at 8pm.
The Mahavishnu Project is: Glenn Alexander on guitar [L. Shankar/Randy Brecker], Adam Holzman on keyboards [Miles Davis/Wayne Shorter], Rob Thomas on violin [Andy Summers/Tito Puente], David Johnsen on bass [Project Object: The Music of Frank Zappa], and of course, Gregg Bendian on drums [Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman].
The Mahavishnu Project returns to Baltimore for the first time in over two years for a special evening of music focusing on selections from each of the three seminal Mahavishnu Orchestra albums - "The Inner Mounting Flame", "Birds of Fire" and "The Lost Trident Sessions" (a first for The Project). Don't miss this rare Baltimore appearence!
From the forthcoming book on The Mahavishnu Orchestra by Walter Kolosky (http://www.walterkolosky.com/), we give you original Mahavishnu Orchestra keyboardist Jan Hammer's comments after hearing The Mahavishnu Project perform the complete "Inner Mounting Flame" at Vishnu Fest 2005 at The Cutting Room in NYC.
I really enjoyed seeing them. It was great. It was wonderful. I admire those guys because they tried something that is very hard. They managed to carry it off. They did it. They came through. The key to the band as much as the mystique of John's Indian name or the music he wrote - I think what carried it through - was the performance of the five people. It was a performing band. It is very hard to get that on record. Anybody can read the parts and learn them but then you have to step in and do something with it. That is the key - what you do with it as a performer and improviser. Improvisation is what finally makes it work in the end. These guys really caught onto it. That's what was wonderful about it.
-Jan Hammer (August 2005) http://www.janhammer.com/
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Subunit is seven and a half years old now – Conrad Parker and I first sketched it up at a CodeCon – camping and coding, a brilliant combination – in mid 2005.
revno: 1 committer: Robert Collins <firstname.lastname@example.com> timestamp: Sat 2005-08-27 15:01:20 +1000 message: design up a protocol with kfish
It has proved remarkably resilient as a protocol – the basic nature hasn't changed at all, even though we've added tags, timestamps, support for attachments of arbitrary size.
However a growing number of irritations have been building up with it. I think it is time to design another iteration of the protocol, one that will retain the positive qualities of the current protocol, while helping it become suitable for the next 7 years. Ideally we can keep compatibility and make it possible for a single stream to be represented in any format.
Existing design
The existing design is a mostly human readable line orientated protocol that can be sniffed out from the regular output of 'make' or other build systems. Binary attachments are done using HTTP chunking, and the parser has to maintain state about the current test, tags, timing data and test progression [a simple stack of progress counters]. How to arrange subunit output is undefined, how to select tests to run is undefined.
This makes writing a parser quite easy, and the tagging and timestamp facility allow multiplexing streams from two or more concurrent test runs into one with good fidelity – but also requires that state be buffered until the end of a test, as two tests cannot be executing at once.
Dealing with debuggers
The initial protocol was intended to support dropping into a debugger – just pass each line read through to stdout, and connect stdin to the test process, and voila, you have a working debugger connection. This works, but the current line based parsers make using it tedious – the line buffered nature of it makes feedback on what has been typed fiddly, and stdout tends to be buffered, leading to an inability to see print statements and the like. All in-principle fixable, right ?
When running two or more test processes, which test process should stdin be connected to? What if two or more drop into a debugger at once? What is being typed to which process is more luck than anything else.
We've added some idioms in testrepository that control test execution by a similar but different format – one test per line to list tests, and have runners permit listing and selecting by a list. This works well, but the inconsistency with subunit itself is a little annoying – you need two parsers, and two output formats.
Good points
The current protocol is extremely easy to implement for emitters, and the arbitrary attachments and tagging features have worked extremely well. There is a comprehensive Python parser which maps everything into Python unittest API calls (an extended version of the standard, with good backwards compatibility).
Pain points
The debugging support was a total failure, and the way the parser depraminates it's toys when a test process corrupts an outcome line is extremely frustrating. (other tests execute but the parser sees them as non-subunit chatter and passes the lines on through stdout).
Dealing with concurrency
The original design didn't cater for concurrency. There are three concurrency issues – the corruption issue (see below for more detail) and multiplexing. Consider two levels of nested concurrency: A supervisor process such as testrepository starts 2 (or more but 2 is sufficient to reason about the issue) subsidiary worker processes (I1 and I2), each of which starts 2 subsidiary processes of their own (W1, W2, W3, W4). Each of the 4 leaf processes is outputting subunit which gets multiplexed in the 2 intermediary processes, and then again in the supervisor. Why would there be two layers? A concrete example is using testrepository to coordinate test runs on multiple machines at once, with each machine running a local testrepository to broker tests amongst the local CPUs. This could be done with 4 separate ssh sessions and no intermediaries, but that only removes a fraction of the issues. What issues?
Well, consider some stdout chatter that W1 outputs. That will get passed to I1 and from there to the supervisor and captured. But there is nothing marking the chatter as belonging to W1: there is no way to tell where it came from. If W1 happened to fail, and there was a diagnostic message printed, we've lost information. Or at best muddled it all up.
Secondly, buffering – imagine that a test on W1 hangs. I1 will know that W1 is running a test, but has no way to tell the supervisor (and thus the user) that this is the case, without writing to stdout [and causing a *lot* of noise if that happens a lot]. We could have I1 write to stdout only if W1's test is taking more than 5 seconds or something – but this is a workaround for a limitation of the protocol. Adding to the confusion, the clock on W1 and W3 may be very skewed, so timestamps for everything have to be carefully synchronised by the multiplexer.
Thirdly, scheduling – if W1/W2 are on a faster machine than W3/W4 then a partition of equal-timed tests onto each machine will lead one idle before the other finishes. It would be nice to be able to pass tests to run to the faster machine when it goes idle, rather than having to start a new runner each time.
Lastly, what to do when W1 and W2 both wait for user input on stdin (e.g. passphrases, debugger input, $other). Naively connecting stdin to all processes doesn't work well. A GUI supervisor could connect a separate fd to each of I1 and I2, but that doesn't help when it is W1 and W2 reading from stdin.
So additional requirement over baseline subunit:
- make it possible for stdout and stderr output to be captured from W1 and routed through I1 to the supervisor without losing its origin. It might be chatter from a noisy test, or it might be build output. Either way, the user probably will benefit if we can capture it and show it to them later when they review the test run. The supervisor should probably show it immediately as well – the protocol doesn't need to care about that, just make it possible.
- make it possible to pass information about tests that have not completed through one subunit stream while they are still incomplete.
- make it possible (but optional) to pass tests to run to a running process that accepts subunit.
- make it possible to route stdin to a specific currently process like W1. This and point 3 suggest that we need a bidirectional protocol rather than the solely unidirectional protocol we have today. I don't know of a reliable portable way to tell when some process is seeking such input, so that will be up to the user I think. (e.g. printing (pdb) to stdout might be a sufficiently good indicator.)
Dealing with corruption
Consider the following subunit fragment:
test: foo starting serversuccess:foo
This is a classic example of corruption: the test 'foo' started a server and helpfully wrote to stdout explaining that it did that, but missed the newline. As a result the success message for the test wasn't printed on a line of its own, and the subunit parser will believe that foo never completed. Every subsequent test is then ignored. This is usually easy to identify and fix, but its a head-scratcher when it happens. Another way it can happen is when a build tool like 'make' runs tests in parallel, and they output subunit onto the same stdout file handle. A third way is when a build tool like make runs two separate test scripts serially, and the first one starts a test but errors hard and doesn't finish it. That looks like:
test: foo test: bar success: bar
One way that this sort of corruption can be mitigated is to put subunit on it's own file descriptor, but this has several caveats: it is harder to tunnel through things like ssh and it doesn't solve the failing test script case.
I think it is unreasonable to require a protocol where arbitrary interleaving of bytes between different test runner streams will work – so the 'make -j2' case can be ignored at the wire level – though we should create a simple way to safely mux the output from such tests when the execute.
The root of the issue is that a dropped update leaves bad state in the parser and it never recovers. So some way to recover, or less state to carry in the parser, would neatly solve things. I favour reducing parser state as that should shift stateful complexity onto end nodes / complex processors, rather than being carried by every node in the transmission path.
Various suggestions have been made – JSON, Protobufs, etc…
A key design goal of the first subunit was a low barrier to entry. We keep that by being backward compatible, but being easy to work with for the new revision is also a worthy goal.
High level proposal
A packetised length prefixed binary protocol, with each packet containing a small signature, length, routing code, a binary timestamp in UTC, a set of UTF8 tags (active only, no negative tags), a content tag – one of (estimate + number, stdin, stdout, stderr, test- + test id), test status (one of exists/inprogress/xfail/xsuccess/success/fail/skip), an attachment name, mime type, a last-block marker and a block of bytes.
The content tags:
- estimate – the stream is reporting how many tests are expected to run. It affects everything with the same routing code only, and replaces (doesn't adjust) any current estimate for that routing code. A estimate packet of 0 can be used to say that a routing target has shutdown and cannot run more tests. Routing codes can be used by a subunit aware runner to separate out separate threads in a single process, or even just separate 'TestSuite' objects within a single test run (though doing so means that they will need to process subunit and strip packets on stdin. This supercedes the stack of progress indicators that current subunit has. estimates cannot have test status or attachments.
- stdin/stdout/stderr: a packet of data for one of these streams. The routing code identifies the test process that the data came from/should go to in the tree of test workers. These packets cannot have test status but should have a non-empty attachment block.
- test- + testid: a packet of data for a single test. test status may be included, as may attachment name, mime type, last-block and binary data.
Test status values are pretty ordinary. Exists is used to indicate a test that can be run when listing tests, and inprogress is used to report a test that has started but not necessarily completed.
Attachment names must be unique per routing code + testid.
So how does this line up?
Interleaving and recovery
We could dispense with interleaving and say the streams are wholly binary, or we can say that packets can start either after a \n or directly after another packet. If we say that binary-only is the approach to take, it would be possible to write a filter that would apply the newline heuristic (or even look for packet headers at every byte offset. I think mandating adjacent to a packet or after \n is a small concession to make and will avoid tools like testrepository forcing users to always configure a heuristic filter. Non-subunit content can be wrapped in subunit for forwarding (the I1 in W1->I1->Supervisor chain would do the wrapping). This won't eliminate corruption but it will localise it and permit the stream to recover: the test that was corrupted will show up as incomplete, or with incomplete attachment data.
Test listing would emit many small non-timestamped packets. It may be useful to have a wrapper packet for bulk amounts of fine grained data like listing is, or for multiplexers with many input streams that will often have multiple data packets available to write at once.
Selecting tests to run
Same as for listing – while passing regexes down to the test runner to select groups of tests is a valid use case, thats not something subunit needs to worry about : if the selection is not the result of the supervisor selecting by test id, then it is known at the start of the test run and can just be a command line parameter to the backend : subunit is relevant for passing instructions to a runner mid-execution. Because the supervisor cannot just hand out some tests and wait for the thing it ran to report that it can accept incremental tests on stdin, supervisor processes will need to be informed about that out of band.
Debugging is straight forward . The parser can read the first 4 or so bytes of a packet one at a time to determine if it is a packet or a line of stdout/stderr, and then either read to end of line, or the binary length of the packet. So, we combine a few things; non-subunit output should be wrapped and presented to the user. Subunit that is being multiplexed and forwarded should prepend a routing code to the packet (e.g. I1 would append '1' or '2' to select which of W1/W2 the content came from, and then forward the packet. S would append '1' or '2' to indicate I1/I2 – the routing code is a path through the tree of forwarding processes). The UI the user is using needs to supply some means to switch where stdin is attached. And stdin input should be routed via stdin packets. When there is no routing code left, the packet should be entirely unwrapped and presented as raw bytes to the process in question.
Very straight forward – unwrap the outer layer of the packet, add or adjust the routing code, serialise a header + adjusted length + rest of packet as-is. No buffering is needed, so the supervisor can show in-progress tests (and how long they have been running for).
Parsing / representation in Python or other languages
The parser should be very simple to write. Once parsed, this will be fundamentally different to the existing Python TestCase->TestResult API that is in used today. However it should be easy to write two adapters: old-style <-> this new-style. old-style -> new-style is useful for running existing tests suites and generating subunit, because thats way the subunit generation is transparent. new-style->old-style is useful for using existing test reporting facilities (such as junitxml or html TestResult objects) with subunit streams.
Importantly though, a new TestResult style that supports the features of this protocol would enable some useful features for regular Python test suites:
- Concurrent tests (e.g. in multiprocessing) wouldn't need multiplexers and special adapters – a regular single testresult with a simple mutex around it would be able to handle concurrent execution of tests, and show hung tests etc.
- The routing of input to a particular debugger instance also applies to a simple python process running tests via multiprocessing, so the routing feature would help there.
- The listing facility and incrementally running tests would be useful too I think – we could go to running tests concurrently with test collection happening, but this would apply to other parts of unittest than just the TestResult
The API might be something like:
class StreamingResult(object): def startTestRun(self): pass def stopTestRun(self): pass def estimate(self, count, route_code=None): pass def stdin(self, bytes, route_code=None): pass def stdout(self, bytes, route_code=None): pass def test(self, test_id, status, attachment_name=None, attachment_mime=None, attachment_eof=None, attachment_bytes=None): pass
This would support just-in-time debugging by wiring up pdb to the stdin/stdout handlers of the result object, rather than actual stdin/stdout of the process – a simple matter once written. Alternatively, the test runner could replace sys.stdin/stdout etc with thunk file-like objects, which might be a good idea anyway to capture spurious output happening during a test run. That would permit pdb to Just Work (even if the test process is internally running concurrent tests.. until it has two pdb objects running concurrently 🙂
Generation new streams
Should be very easy in anything except shell. For shell, we can have a command line tool that when invoked outputs a subunit stream for one instruction. E.g. 'test foo completed + some attachments' or 'test foo starting'.


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SAN DIEGO, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ResMed, an innovator and pioneer in developing products for the treatment of sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory conditions, has filed parallel legal actions in the International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. federal court to stop the infringement of ResMed patents.
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ResMed filed the actions against Taiwanese manufacturer APEX Medical and its U.S. distributor, Medical Depot, Inc., doing business as Drive Medical Design and Manufacturing. ResMed alleges that multiple ResMed patents are infringed by several APEX products, including:
ResMed is asking the ITC to stop the importation and sales of these products in the United States, and it is asking the U.S. federal court to stop the infringement and award damages against the defendants.
"For more than two decades, ResMed has generated significant advances in innovative products for sleep-disordered breathing therapy," said ResMed global general counsel and chief administrative officer David Pendarvis . "We invest over a hundred million dollars in research and development each year to fuel these advances and other companies should not be allowed to infringe ResMed's intellectual property by using our technology."
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ResMed is a global leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical products for the diagnosis, treatment and management of respiratory disorders, with a focus on sleep-disordered breathing. The company is dedicated to developing innovative products to improve the lives of those who suffer from these conditions and to increasing awareness among patients and healthcare professionals of the potentially serious health consequences of untreated sleep-disordered breathing. For more information on ResMed, visit www.resmed.com.Contacts:For News Media For the Finance and Investor CommunityGretchen Griswold
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Fantasy drivers: AMA rewards local campaigns
An ad campaign exposing the secret lives of auto racers and a 15-second public television promo for the Hook were the top ad campaigns last week in the American Marketing Association's annual contest, Charlottesville's version of the Clios.
The Payne Ross print ads for CDOC, an auto racing supply company, portrayed a staid suburbanite whose heart throbs for auto racing.
In one, a closet full of drab business garb is enlivened by a lone white Bell racing suit. In another, tire tracks in just one driveway in a cookie-cutter neighborhood reveal which house harbors the race enthusiast. And in, well, the "raciest" of these racing ads, a bedpost has been replaced with a shock absorber.
Creative director Jamie Howard [This person's last time was missstated in the print edition; it has been corrected in this online edition.–editor] says the bed ad generated the most response– including requests for posters: "Where the brand had once been anonymous, it is now a topic of conversation."
"This was a conceptual campaign– and extremely well executed," says John Martin of Richmond, one of the three judges. "It was a well-designed strategy based on real consumer insight."
Martin says the judges were pleasantly surprised to discover this unique campaign in a category often filled with "clichéd tacky retail advertising."
Although it has a retail presence on Preston Avenue, CDOC is primarily a mail-order house, says co-owner Colin Dougherty. He and his wife, Chris, started the business 10 months ago for people like themselves: weekend race fanatics.
"These guys are like Walter Mitty," explains Dougherty. "They're guys who work hard every day on a job and go out and race on the weekends." The catchphrase on the ads, "We know how you feel about racing," is literally true.
The CDOC ads have run in such niche publications as Porche Panorama, Grassroots Motorsports, and European Car. Followed by a page touting specific products, the ad campaign netted lots of orders and awareness, Daugherty says. The ads have not been printed locally.
Birch Studio Graphics took the Silver for a print ad campaign emphasizing the personality of realtor Tom Seely.
Over in the broadcast category, WHTJ took first place for a 15-second promo for none other than the Hook. The spot shows two fisherman landing a Hook on their fish hook.
"A simple concept with clean execution," says Martin. "It walked the fine line of public television respectability and getting across the message that the Hook is becoming a major news force in Central Virginia."
Based a concept supplied by Hook senior editor Courteney Stuart, the spot by WHTJ's Allison Benedict gives this newspaper its second association with a Gold award in two years.
Last year, the Hook earned a Gold of its own from a single ad showing the cartooned image of a woman struggling with a lawn mower under the sweltering sun. It asked the burning question: "How are you going to spend your summer?" The client was Meriweather Mowing Service.
"Your win last year was kind of an anomaly," says chapter spokesperson Elizabeth McMartin. "Normally, the things that tended to win were the big-budget things with lots and lots of pieces."
Organizers remedied that situation by adding a new category. The contest drew 33 entries, two shy of the record set last year, says McMartin. She adds that as recently as five years ago, the contest had just one category with three entries.
"It has grown over the years," she deadpans. "The work was more varied and stronger this year. We're talking about adding another category."
Category 4 Design's website for Shenandoah Shakespeare won the top Internet prize, while the cross-platform materials Payne Ross created for Norcross Station apartments won in the "overall" category. "Overall" silvers went to Probe for its WTJU 91.1 FM Jazz Marathon campaign, and to Gotham Graphix for its Charlottesville/Albemarle Airport campaign.
In the Print category, WorldStrides won for a direct mail piece, while The Ivy Group took the Silver for materials developed for Hospice of the Piedmont.
The event was held June 22 at the Glenmore Country Club.
CDOC knows how you feel about racing.
The Hook knows how you feel about fishing?
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Syrian rebels attack military airport in northwest
[Al Ahram] Syrian rebels, some from Islamist units, fired machineguns and mortars at helicopters grounded at a northern military air base near the main Aleppo-
...The capital of Iran's Syrian satrapy...
highway on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.
The al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham Brigade and other units operating in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib were attacking the Afis military airport near Taftanaz, the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
There was no immediate account of the fighting around the air base from Syrian state media.
Insurgents trying to topple
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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see his air power as their main threat. They hold swathes of eastern and northern provinces, as well as a crescent of suburbs around the capital, Damascus, but have been unable to protect rebel-held territory from relentless attack by helicopters and jets.
In recent months, rebel units have besieged several military installations, especially along Syria's main north-south artery from Aleppo, its most populous city, to Damascus.
The Observatory's director, Rami Abdelrahman, said Wednesday's attack was the latest of several attempts to capture the base. A satellite image of the airport shows more than 40 helicopter landing pads, a runway and aircraft hangars.
An estimated 45,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011 with peaceful protests against four decades of Assad family rule but turned into an armed revolt after months of government repression.
In Damascus, Assad's forces fired artillery and mortars at the eastern districts of Douma, Harasta, Irbin and Zamlaka, where rebels have a foothold, activists living there said.
Syria's civil war is the longest and deadliest conflict to emerge from uprisings that began sweeping the Arab world in 2011 and has developed a significant sectarian element.
Rebels, mostly from the Sunni
majority, confront Assad's army and security forces, dominated by his Shi'ite-derived Alawite sect, which, along with some other minorities, fears
Dire Revenge™
if he falls.
U.N.-led diplomatic peace efforts have stumbled. Western and many Sunni Arab states demand Assad's immediate removal, an idea resisted by Russia, China and Syria's Shi'ite ally Iran.
The rebels say they will not negotiate unless Assad, who has vowed to fight to the death, leaves power.
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After many successful years, our services have expanded to also encompass a venue for manufacturers' and motorsports career training.
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Doubting Thomas
Doubting Thomas is a derogatory term for a someone who refuses to believe without evidence.
The term refers to John 20:24-29 : after Jesus' resurrection, he appeared to his apostles, except for Thomas, who was not present. When the other apostles told him about it, he said he would not believe Jesus was resurrected unless he could put his finger in the nail holes and touch the spear wound in Jesus' side. A week later, Jesus returned and allowed Thomas to touch his wounds, at which point Thomas was convinced that Jesus had indeed returned. The story concludes with
29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.
Thomas and skepticism[edit]
The implication of the story is that it is better to believe on faith alone, rather than to be persuaded by evidence.
Thomas was presented with an extraordinary claim (that a man had come back from the dead), and refused to believe it on the say-so of his friends. Once he had been given extraordinary evidence, he changed his mind and accepted the claim. In other words, he acted like an honest skeptic, and was rebuked for it.


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PB bombs fizz like mad but they are long-lasting and very gentle on even sensitive skin.These bombs will not dye you or your tub funny colours and they will not irritate sensitive areas. We don't use anything but high quality ingredients and absolutely no cheap fillers. Safe for all ages but children should be at least 2yrs and up.
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Pertaining to sport versions of Audi's vehicles, the RS destination was given to the German luxury car brand's products in 1994. Inaugurated on 'a wolf in sheep's clothing' called the RS2 Avant, the flexibility Audi showed with towards high performance presented the all-wheel drive quattro drivetrain linked in a screaming 311 horsepower 2.2 liter turbocharged engine. In recent years, Audi's avant-garde design has been injected with a high dose of performance character through expanded use of the RS badge as the brand headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany targeted the M division of BMW and AMG outfitted Mercedes-Benz products.
Extended to sedan, coupes, convertibles and wagons of many sizes, there have yet to be a production RS model of an Audi crossover vehicle. At the upcoming Beijing Auto China exhibit, one concept presentation using an Audi Q3 will finally test the waters of crossover utility merging with the high-performance RS trim.
Painted a rather calming shade of Ordos Blue (a mix of matte blue and yellow), the Audi RS Q3 Concept is a rare variety of compact utility super performance. Lowered 25 millimeters (0.98 inches) compared to the stock model Q3 sold in Europe, the Audi RS Q3's bodywork also portrays a wider stance for the crossover vehicle. Unique front grille, tinted front headlight and taillight housings as well as the precise use of aluminum trim allows the concept crossover to beam premium performance. Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) body add-ons on the Audi RS Q3 supplies a front spoiler, rear diffuser and retouched air intakes surroundings befitting a sports car. The Audi RS Q3 sport compact crossover rides on 20-inch wheels featuring a multi-finish style where high-gloss and matte-looking surfaces combine within 255/30 tires.
The sight of blue, black and aluminum fill the Audi RS Q3 Concept's interior. A glass sunroof allows natural light to flow freely through the cabin of the five-passenger cabin. Creating a sense of high-grade performance along with a premium comfort feel, the RS Q3 Concept features seating marrying Nappa leather and dark blue alcantara. Ahead of a redesigned instrument panel, black velvet covers the steering wheel made of CFRP material.
Powering the Audi RS Q3 Concept is the 2.5 liter, five-cylinder TFSI similar to the one found in the TT RS sports car. A direct-injected and turbocharged engine, 144 horsepower per liter from the inline powerplant combines to total 360 horsepower. Networked through a seven-speed S Tronic direct shift transmission, the 360 horsepower of the Audi RS Q3 is intelligently guided along quattro all-wheel drive for incredible performance. Capable of a top speed of almost 165 miles per hour, acceleration from 0 to 62 in the Audi RS Q3 is estimated at 5.2 seconds.
Making its public debut late next week in China, the high performance Audi RS Q3 Concept will be auditioning for its place in the upcoming vehicle line-up of this growing German auto brand.
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Md. state police criticize Gansler comments | News
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland State Police are criticizing Attorney General Doug Gansler for calling the commander of the executive protection section a "henchman" of Gov. Martin O'Malley and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown.
Gansler, who is running for governor, said Tuesday that reports saying he misused his security detail to get him to events are "100 percent completely untrue." He accused his opponent, Brown, of "running a campaign about dirty politics," and "pulling out some memo that some henchman wrote two or three years ago."
The state police say the reference to Lt. Charles Ardolini "is unseemly and unacceptable." They say Ardolini's memorandum about Gansler was the result of ongoing safety concerns expressed to him by troopers that culminated with actions witnessed by Ardolini himself.


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