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The Actuator files have been created as single part files using Rotork's native CAD system Solid Edge (version 12.00.05.02).The external data has been modelled to provide an accurate representation of the envelope shape, but no internal detail has been modelled. Each Actuator variation has been modelled to avoid customers having to cut-and-paste components together (i.e. Handwheel and Base options).
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LEDUC – Many of the AFHL's top Bantam Elite players will converge on Leduc this weekend for several days of competition that will mark a significant milestone in their young hockey careers.
These athletes, born in 2004-05, have been named to the rosters of the six teams that will compete in Hockey Alberta's 2019 Alberta Challenge, May 2-5 at the Leduc Recreation Centre.
The Alberta Challenge is held alternating years opposite of the Alberta Winter Games, with three teams selected to represent the North, and three to represent the South. The players were selected from approximately 300 who attended regional camps held April 5-7 in Cochrane and Fort Saskatchewan. Twenty athletes comprise each roster, along with volunteers serving as head coach, assistant coaches, coach mentor, trainer, and director of operations. The Challenge is also part of the development process for female on-ice officials across the province.
Rosters >
In addition to pursuing the Challenge, the athletes are also vying for a spot at the U16 Female Summer Camp, held July 11-14 in Red Deer, and is one of the stages in the identification and selection process for the Team Alberta U18 program.
"Leduc will play host to some of the top young female athletes in the province, and spectators will definitely be impressed by their talent," said Taryn Baumgardt, Hockey Alberta's Coordinator of Female Hockey. "For the players, the Alberta Challenge is a great opportunity to measure themselves against others in the province, as well as receive instruction from elite caliber coaches."
The teams play a modified round-robin competition. Preliminary round action gets underway on Thursday at 4 pm, with three games. There will be six games on Friday, starting at 8:30 am. On Saturday, preliminary action finishes, with three games, starting at 10 am. The tournament concludes on Sunday with the championship game set for 2:30 pm.
For more information, or to check the game results during the Alberta Challenge, go to hockeyalberta.ca or abchallenge.ca. You can also follow along with the action on Facebook and Twitter.

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Pembina Pipeline Corporation Positions for Future Growth Through Acquisition of Land and Facilities in Alberta's Industrial Heartland
CALGARY, Sept. 3, 2013 /CNW/ - Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL; NYSE: PBA) announced today that it has acquired a site in the Alberta Industrial Heartland for approximately $20 million featuring a well-designed existing rail system and utility infrastructure to support the future development of rail, terminalling and storage facilities (the "Heartland Hub"). The Heartland Hub is a further build-out of Pembina's larger Nexus terminal ("PNT"), servicing crude oil and diluent customers for terminalling, storage and rail.
The Heartland Hub will be a receipt and delivery terminal designed to capture opportunities to expand services for Pembina's customers. The site is in close proximity to major oil sands pipeline rights-of-way, existing crude oil and petrochemical infrastructure and Pembina's Redwater site. It is expected to provide interconnectivity via pipeline and rail to downstream refining markets and enable Pembina to offer upstream and downstream customers access to merchant storage and other complementary midstream services.
Key features of the acquisition include:
- 232 acres of well-developed industrial land;
- in excess of 5,000 linear feet of rail track, currently serviced by CN Rail;
- 160 acres of adjacent, existing Pembina lands, which can be developed for future merchant storage and rail expansions;
- 1,280 acres of Pembina salt rights in close proximity to support future cavern development; and
- the ability to access over four million barrels per day of existing and future oil sands and conventional crude oil supply through various current and potential pipeline interconnection(s).
The Heartland Hub is an integral part of the broader PNT which interconnects Pembina's terminalling infrastructure located in the Edmonton, Redwater and Fort Saskatchewan areas. PNT provides unparalleled access to the diverse crude oil grades produced in western Canada. In addition, it is connected to condensate (diluent) transported on third-party as well as Pembina pipeline systems, including imported pipeline and rail supplies. The access and connectivity of PNT provides the broadest array of crude oil and diluent services available to Pembina's customer base.
At the same time, Pembina has entered into a multi-year agreement with a major North American refiner for the provision of services to load crude oil railcars within the existing infrastructure at PNT. This service will commence immediately. The agreement provides up to 40,000 barrels per day of various crude grades, and capitalizes on the full service offering of pipeline, storage and rail infrastructure at PNT.
"Pembina's purchase of this property in the Heartland area and our agreement with a major North American refiner demonstrates the growing demand for terminalling services and the business model being built-out by Pembina's Midstream business. PNT's location and connections to take-away pipeline infrastructure and its ability to offer enhanced crude oil and diluent services allow us continue to provide customers an attractive and expanding suite of services and midstream capabilities" said Bob Jones, Pembina's Vice President, Midstream. "We're also excited about the benefits to our other businesses: true to our vertical integration strategy, we see synergies between the midstream services which will be available at PNT and our Conventional Pipelines, Gas Services, and Oil Sands & Heavy Oil businesses."
The acquisition of the Heartland Hub was funded by Pembina's existing credit facilities.
To view a map of the Heartland Hub and surrounding area, including Pembina's Redwater site, please visit the following link and select Heartland Hub: http://www.pembina.com/pembina/webcms.nsf/AllDoc/CE0654AEEEF402A08725778800593A7D?OpenDocument
About Pembina
Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline Corporation is a leading transportation and midstream service provider that has been serving North America's energy industry for nearly 60 years. Pembina owns and operates: pipelines that transport conventional and synthetic crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids produced in western Canada; oil sands and heavy oil and diluent pipelines; gas gathering and processing facilities; and, an oil and natural gas liquids infrastructure and logistics business. With facilities strategically located in western Canada and in natural gas liquids markets in eastern Canada and the U.S., Pembina also offers a full spectrum of midstream and marketing services that span across its operations. Pembina's integrated assets and commercial operations enable it to offer services needed by the energy sector along the hydrocarbon value chain.
Pembina is a trusted member of the communities in which it operates and is committed to generating value for its investors by running its businesses in a safe, environmentally responsible manner that is respectful of community stakeholders.
Forward-Looking Statements & Information
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements and information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of applicable securities legislation that are based on Pembina's current expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "expects", "will", "estimate", "expand", "would", "develop" and similar expressions suggesting future events or future performance.
In particular, this news release contains forward-looking statements, including certain financial outlook, pertaining to, without limitation, the following: Pembina's business objectives; the ongoing utilization and expansions of and additions to Pembina's business and asset base, growth and growth potential; expectations regarding future demand for midstream services; and expectations regarding supply and demand factors and pricing for oil and natural gas and hydrocarbon services. These forward-looking statements and information are being made by Pembina based on certain assumptions that Pembina has made in respect thereof as at the date of this document including those discussed below.
With respect to forward-looking statements contained in this document, Pembina has made assumptions regarding, among other things: ongoing utilization and future expansion, development, growth and performance of Pembina's business and asset base; that favourable growth parameters continue to exist in respect of current and future growth projects; and that Pembina's businesses will continue to achieve sustainable financial results.
Although Pembina believes the expectations and material factors and assumptions reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date hereof, there can be no assurance that these expectations, factors and assumptions will prove to be correct. Readers are cautioned that events or circumstances could cause results to differ materially from those predicted, forecasted or projected. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve numerous assumptions, known and unknown risks and uncertainties that contribute to the possibility that the predictions, forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not occur, which may cause actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and information.
None of the forward-looking statements described above are guarantees of future performance and are subject to a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to: the impact of competitive entities and pricing; reliance on key industry partners, alliances and agreements; the strength and operations of the oil and natural gas production industry and related commodity prices; the continuation or completion of third- party projects; regulatory environment and inability to obtain required regulatory approvals; tax laws and treatment; fluctuations in operating results; lower than anticipated results of operations and accretion from Pembina's business initiatives; reduced amounts of cash available for dividends to shareholders; the ability of Pembina to raise sufficient capital (or to raise capital on favourable terms) to complete future projects and satisfy future commitments.
The forward-looking statements contained in this document speak only as of the date of this document. Pembina does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information contained herein, except as required by applicable laws. The forward-looking statements contained in this document are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
All financial figures are in Canadian dollars, unless otherwise noted.
Pembina Pipeline® is a registered trademark of Pembina Pipeline Corporation.
SOURCE: Pembina Pipeline Corporation


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Fembio Specials Women from Vienna Alma Mahler-Werfel
Fembio Special: Women from Vienna
Alma Mahler-Werfel
(Alma Mahler-Werfel, geb. Schindler, verh. Gropius (2. Ehe))
Austrian composer, author and companion of famous men
born August 31, 1879 in Vienna
died December 11, 1964 in New York City
Biography • Quotes • Literature & Sources
Alma Schindler began composition studies with Alexander von Zemlinsky in 1897, composing Lieder and instrumental pieces as well as starting work on an opera. She married the composer Gustav Mahler, who was 20 years her senior. Mahler wrote: "The role of composer falls to me, yours is that of loving companion…!" She obeyed him, reluctantly. By the time Mahler, after a crisis in their marriage, suddenly took an interest in her composition (he had five of her Lieder printed), she had long given up. "Ten years of wasted development cannot be made up anymore. It was a galvanized corpse that he wanted to resurrect."
This woman who had wanted to achieve fame by virtue of her own work now prepared to surround herself with famous men, "geniuses." But the energetic, ambitious Alma, often described as power-hungry, was never the gentle, devoted muse. After Mahler's death (1911) she had a passionate affair with the painter Oskar Kokoschka, who painted her as The Tempest (Windsbraut). He courted her with a possessive love that she enjoyed and feared at the same time. She left him in 1915 and escaped into a marriage with the architect Walter Gropius, who she hoped would provide peace and calm.
She was happy at the birth of her daughter Manon - she had already had a daughter with Mahler, a second had died as a toddler, and Manon was to die too, at 18 - but gave up the security of that marriage for the young poet Franz Werfel. She influenced and inspired him, organized his life and his fame, and in 1940 emigrated with him - Werfel was a Jew - to the USA. She writes in her memoirs: "God granted me the privilege of knowing the brilliant works of our time before they left the hands of their creators. And if I was allowed to assist these knights for a while, then my existence is justified and blessed!"
Translation by Julie Niederhauser.
Author: Brigitte Warkus
"You must only devote yourself to me unconditionally, design your future life entirely according to me…" Gustav Mahler
"The three years with him were a single, intense battle of love. Never before have I tasted so much strain, so much hell, so much paradise." Alma Mahler-Werfel on Oskar Kokoschka
Literature & Sources
Alma Mahler-Werfel in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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With decreasing number of jobs and few solutions at work, the best suggestion to the people who face this problem is to start their own business. Although might be economic turbulence, but starting a business of your own is surely a path of financial recovery. There are few tips for the people who have a plan of low cost business start ups. Making a big investment is not always necessary. If you do not have such a great amount to invest, it is better starting with a small investment. Here are the tips that can help you in doing so:
* It is good that you have planned to start a business of your own, but it is essential that you must be clear in yourself. You must be clear about your aim and must possess the answer of the question that why you want to start a business of your own.
* You must be determined that what type of business you want to start with. Never ever think of doing investment in something that is new to you. Doing something like that is full of risks and you have to go blindly towards a direction about which you are not at all sure. It is essential that the business you are planning to start should be familiar to you. It should not be like hit and trial case.
* Planning is most important in any business. Most of the aspiring business people believe that they have to sit down for hours and make a lengthy business plans clearly showing the amount of money that you will make in the coming years. There is no need of keeping such complexity as it will become difficult for you to understand. The business plan should be simple and precise.
* Something that has great importance for any business is the customers. So, one should be clear with the customers that he as to target. Their preferences, thinking, liking, everything matters a lot to you. You have search everything about your target audience, what they like and what they do not like about the business that you are plan to start.
* Prices are something that attracts everybody. It might be possible that a person do not have any interest in the product in which you deal, but looking at the genuine prices, he can start taking interest as he find it beneficial in one way or the other. Always compare your prices with your competitors and make sure that you are providing genuine rates, keeping quality at the topmost priority.
* The next thing, which has importance of its own, is to reach your target customer through proper advertising and promotion. Advertising has great significance as it is the only way of telling people about your product, introducing them what it is all about and how your product is different from the other similar existing products.
It is good to follow such tips when you are new to a business and doing it for the first time.


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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Mission X Ali
One of the best parts of writing a space blog where I discuss NASA events, projects and kickoffs, is where I can actually track down people who are involved behind the scenes, and truly feel the passion for their programs -– passion that is never in short supply at the space agency, believe me.
In this case, the hunt wasn't too tasking, because one of the main rocket boosters behind Mission X: Train Like An Astronaut was my tweetup buddy, Ali Llewellyn, whose twitter feed often includes the enviable hashtag #lovemyjob, which I'm definitely re-using. Ali is an Education Outreach Specialist in Houston, which is part teacher, part traveler, part organizer! And darned busy at all those things.
How were you drawn to contracting for NASA?
I've loved space since I was a child; I have photos of my fifth birthday on the lawn at Johnson Space Center. Nothing captured my imagination like space exploration. A few years later, Challenger solidified that for me. This was a mission, a vision so high, so WORTHWHILE, that these heroic men and women were willing to give their lives. I wanted to do something like that with my life.
You really had your 5th birthday party on the JSC lawn?! Wow, so you literally grew up in the shadow of Rocket Park. Did it make you want to be an astronaut?
Yes. I remember being in school, though, and never feeling encouraged that I could do that. None of my teachers ever set a vision before me that would help me take hold of it, and it seemed unattainable. When I realized how my motion sickness would be a big impediment to being an astronaut, I just sort of gave up. Now, I realize I probably could have been a good engineer – but I don't think I even knew what an engineer did, really, other than it was geeky guys who did lots of math…
Yeah, it's still geeky guys who do lots of math. And geeky girls now too. But you stuck with your space dream, and where did it take you?
I now help change what I experienced as a little girl. I equip schools and teachers so that their students will know that anything is possible. Whether they want to be scientists, engineers or astronauts – or something totally different – I want them to have every option open to them, and see them filled with a curious love of learning that opens life up before them. I like it too because it's part of how we are giving back to our local communities, which is a big value for me. Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut was born out of a desire for the international partners to collaborate beyond vehicles or procedures, and work together on education. We are beginning to address one of the most vital felt needs among youth worldwide (childhood obesity) out of the skills/research/expertise/vision of NASA. Talk about putting it all to good use – it makes me so proud. It's my little small way of helping serve the vision. I'm blessed.
You are indeed blessed, and should be proud of such an amazing initiative! What countries have you visited for Mission X?
JSC Mission X team just traveled to Bogota to train teachers for the challenge in Colombia. The Colombian vision for the project is incredible! The Colombian Space Commission in the process of launching their first national satellite, and sees the urgent need to create excitement about space in youth, both to support the commission and to develop the workforce infrastructure to support their growing space program. They invested in Mission X as a way to encourage students toward STEM careers and raise the visibility of space in a nation where it really doesn't yet exist. It's so exciting to see their passion and enthusiasm for their vision!
The Mission X working group has also convened at ESA-ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and at CNES in Paris, France.
Back in Texas, Team USA will be hosted by the school district in College Station, beginning with 800 fourth-graders on January 18th. Their 6-week training program will mirror what astronauts perform to prepare for space missions. Good luck with Mission X until the next time we check in, Ali! Keep up the great work!


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Problems and Methods of After-Death Communication and Mediumship
Julie Beischel's article, "The Reincarnation of Mediumship Research," offers excellent fodder for discussion of methods and problems in the study of mediumship and afterdeath communication. It is published in EdgeScience, vol. 3, April-June 2010/11, a free online journal of the Society for Scientific Exploration. In it, Beischel outlines the research problems that occur working with mediums and explains a few of the methodologies used at Windbridge Institute.
Researchers call the process by which mediums commune with the dead Anomalous Information Reception, or AIR. AIR means that mediums can pick up information about a discarnate without any prior knowledge of that discarnate and without any sensory feedback from the sitter. The sitter is the living person to whom the deceased discarnate is connected. Although from what I know of other research and from my own experience, the first condition, no prior knowledge of the discarnate, is not a problem. In fact, for me as a medium I would prefer not to know anything. When I do learn of something before a reading or séance, my tendency is to block it.
The second condition, no sensory feedback, is also something that I require whenever I work as a medium or do psychic readings. I do not allow the sitter to intervene, make comments or ask questions until the last 20 minutes of the session. Still, I have the energy of the sitter before me, an energy I can telepathically search and interpret for information. In afterdeath communication trials with mediums at the University of Arizona (see below), accuracy levels dropped when sensory feedback was totally withdrawn, that is, when the sitters were screened from the mediums and not allowed to respond. In my experience, the most significant factor of accuracy is the level of need of the sitter to make contact with the deceased or the need of the deceased to communicate with the sitter or with people at large. As far as I know, the element of desire and human emotion as a factor of accuracy has not yet been tested or measured. The complete withdrawal of sensory feedback would seriously diminish the impact of the sitter's need on the medium.
Since the most common deception in mediumship is attaining knowledge of someone or something before the séance, which the medium then passes off as coming from the dead, careful investigators go to great lengths to make sure that the medium has no prior knowledge of the sitters participating in experiments. Early researchers have gone to extremes. The great Bostonian medium Leonora Piper, one of those who was cut, pricked, burned, and exposed to ammonia while in trance, was perhaps subject to the harshest scrutiny so far recorded. She conducted several thousand sessions over three decades around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century under the stringent control of five experienced researchers from the Society for Psychical Research. These were all scholars in their own fields, including William James, a professor of Harvard and James Hyslop, a professor of Columbia University and a true skeptic. They brought hundreds of sitters to these sessions under false names. They hired detectives to follow Piper. While she was in England, she was kept in seclusion in the home of the physicist, Sir Oliver Lodge, and closely watched. She was not allowed to go out without a member of the Society for Psychical Research by her side. Her mail was read in order to be sure she was not receiving clandestine information. Lodge even went so far as to change his domestic staff during her stay to prevent her from learning anything about his private life. She was also forbidden to read newspapers around test days. In over three decades of this treatment and stressful examination, Piper never once came close to committing a fraud.
In modern times, the control measures are not so extreme and have taken a vastly different turn. Researchers at the Windbridge Institute have designed what they call a quintuple-blind protocol. This method has five separate levels of controls exerted on the medium, the sitter, and three experiment conductors, each of whom is blinded to different pieces of information. Most communication occurs on the phone, thus separating the medium from the sitter and the intermediary experiment conductors. The conductor calls the medium on the phone with the first name of a discarnate which was emailed to the conductor by another experimenter. Neither the medium nor the conductor have any other information about the deceased or the sitter. The conductor asks the medium specific questions about the deceased which are answered in the form of a reading of the deceased. The sitter is not permitted to hear it. The medium then does a second reading at a different time for a second discarnate and a second sitter. The two readings are then transcribed and all references to the discarnates' names are removed. The two sitters then score each of the two readings for accuracy without knowing which is which. The experimenters don't know either. This quintuple-blind protocol is meant to prevent information from leaking. Because the medium and the sitter never meet each other, it also prevents what is known as a cold reading. Cold readings are when a person makes guesses informed by the sitter's verbal responses, body language, and so forth.
Regardless of the accuracy of the mediums' statements, such clinical trials still do not furnish proof for genuine afterdeath communication or survival after death. In The Last Frontier (chapters 1-5) I go into the problems of proof at great depth, specifically with regard to afterdeath communication in chapter 2. Here I can only summarize. One explanation for how mediums retrieve information is called super-psi. The super-psi explanation poses that the medium may be getting information through clairvoyance (such as rewitnessing the death of the discarnate), precognition and/or telepathy, skills mediums and intuitives routinely use in doing readings on the living. Another common skill is remote viewing, which could be used to see death certificates or photos of the deceased, with or without the sitter.
Telepathy, in this instance, would be what is called direct mental interaction between living systems, or DMILS. DMILS between a sitter and a medium is a justifiable concern. Although I am risking voicing an unpopular view among survival advocates that DMILS can and does operate in readings and séances, normally it operates only to a certain degree. The better the medium and the stronger the contact, the less the medium will unwittingly fall back on information telepathically retrieved from the living sitter.
Distinguishing between genuine contact, which is after all largely a telepathic process, and DMILS is not always easy for researchers and mediums alike. The greatest and most infallible distinguishing factor for me is the physical sensation of the presence of the dead, a sensation I call the tingling. The tingling is pleasurable, focused, directional and occurs in the context of invoking the deceased, whether by just casually talking about the deceased or by deliberate invocation. It can be so strong that it makes me sway on my feet. It is also laden with information and emotion. What is especially remarkable about it is that the living "sitters" who are associated with the deceased also feel it, even if communication between us is conducted on the phone. Other mediums have noted differences in the way communication with the dead feels and the way clairvoyant activity feels.
An additional explanation for how mediums retrieve information is what Beischel calls the psychic reservoir hypothesis which maintains that all information is stored in the universe, like a "cosmic database," formerly called the Akashic Records. Mediums draw information from this reservoir, rather than from the dead. I would add too, another closely related source of "public" information, mass consciousness.
Oddly enough, the philosopher Michael Sudduth has coined a term "survival psi," a term that acknowledges survival of consciousness after death but assumes that mediums garner information by telepathic communication with discarnates. This is no news to me. Of course, that's what we're doing. The problem is, however, that our current view of telepathy, as thought transference from one mind to another alone, is not just extremely limiting, it is also inaccurate. I discuss broader meanings of how thought manifests in, and drives, nearly all paranormal phenomena in chapter 15 in The Last Frontier, a chapter devoted to telepathy.
For quite some time now, parapsychologists have been debating which hypothesis best explains so-called afterdeath communication through mediums, the survival after death hypthesis, the super-psi hypothesis or the reservoir/mass consciousness hypothesis. These last two have been combined by Beischel and her colleague, Adam Rock, to form a new term, "somantic psi." So far, no agreement has been reached.
Clearly one of the chief problems in afterdeath communication research is that verification of information must inevitably come from the living, a requirement that in all cases admits the possibility of DMILS. I would like to see researchers move in new directions, directions that for me, reassure us that the dead we mediums think we are communicating with are in fact individual, independent identities that have survived. Those directions involve the before-mentioned physical sensations of the presence of the dead. Because they are electrical sensation, they can surely be measured. Another direction is studying the element of surprise and the unexpected, quite common characteristics of afterdeath communication. Furthermore, DMILS or any form of super-psi and reservoir hypotheses cannot explain afterdeath communication that takes the form of dialogue, even arguments. Nor can they explain instances in which the dead tell us about something that they and only they know, something that occurred after their deaths. Fortunately, the dedicated researchers at Windbridge Institute seem to be going in these directions.
More information about Windbridge publications, investigators, news, studies, opportunities, and certified research mediums is available at www.windbridge.org. Julie Beischel , PhD, is Director of Research at the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential.
The Windbridge Institute was founded by Beischell and her husband, Mark Boccuzzi, to continue research begun at the University of Virginia and the University of Arizona. The University of Arizona mediumship trials were directed by Gary Schwartz. Beischel was co-director. If you are interested in reading about these trials, see Schwartz' book, The Afterlife Experiments, (Atria Books, 2002). I should mention that At Windbridge Institute, researchers on afterdeath communication uses only those mediums whose abilities have been clinically demonstrated.


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INSERT - create new rows in a tableSYNOPSIS
INSERT INTO table [ ( column [, ...] ) ] { DEFAULT VALUES | VALUES ( { expression | DEFAULT } [, ...] ) [, ...] | query } [ RETURNING * | output_expression [ [ AS ] output_name ] [, ...] ]
INSERT inserts new rows into a table. One can insert one or more rows specified by value expressions, or zero or more rows resulting from a query.
The target column names can be listed in any order. If no list of column names is given at all, the default is all the columns of the table in their declared order; or the first N column names, if there are only N columns supplied by the VALUES clause or query. The values supplied by the VALUES clause or query are associated with the explicit or implicit column list left-to-right.
Each column not present in the explicit or implicit column list will be filled with a default value, either its declared default value or null if there is none.
If the expression for any column is not of the correct data type, automatic type conversion will be attempted.
The optional RETURNING clause causes INSERT to compute and return value(s) based on each row actually inserted. This is primarily useful for obtaining values that were supplied by defaults, such as a serial sequence number. However, any expression using the table's columns is allowed. The syntax of the RETURNING list is identical to that of the output list of SELECT.
You must have INSERT privilege on a table in order to insert into it. If a column list is specified, you only need INSERT privilege on the listed columns. Use of the RETURNING clause requires SELECT privilege on all columns mentioned in RETURNING. If you use the query clause to insert rows from a query, you of course need to have SELECT privilege on any table or column used in the query.
- table
- The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing table.
- column
- The name of a column in table. The column name can be qualified with a subfield name or array subscript, if needed. (Inserting into only some fields of a composite column leaves the other fields null.)
- All columns will be filled with their default values.
- expression
- An expression or value to assign to the corresponding column.
- The corresponding column will be filled with its default value.
- query
- A query (SELECT statement) that supplies the rows to be inserted. Refer to the SELECT [select(7)] statement for a description of the syntax.
- output_expression
- An expression to be computed and returned by the INSERT command after each row is inserted. The expression can use any column names of the table. Write * to return all columns of the inserted row(s).
- output_name
- A name to use for a returned column.
On successful completion, an INSERT command returns a command tag of the form
INSERT oid countThe count is the number of rows inserted. If count is exactly one, and the target table has OIDs, then oid is the OID assigned to the inserted row. Otherwise oid is zero.
If the INSERT command contains a RETURNING clause, the result will be similar to that of a SELECT statement containing the columns and values defined in the RETURNING list, computed over the row(s) inserted by the command.
Insert a single row into table films:
INSERT INTO films VALUES ('UA502', 'Bananas', 105, '1971-07-13', 'Comedy', '82 minutes');
In this example, the len column is omitted and therefore it will have the default value:
INSERT INTO films (code, title, did, date_prod, kind) VALUES ('T_601', 'Yojimbo', 106, '1961-06-16', 'Drama');
This example uses the DEFAULT clause for the date columns rather than specifying a value:
INSERT INTO films VALUES ('UA502', 'Bananas', 105, DEFAULT, 'Comedy', '82 minutes'); INSERT INTO films (code, title, did, date_prod, kind) VALUES ('T_601', 'Yojimbo', 106, DEFAULT, 'Drama');
To insert a row consisting entirely of default values:
INSERT INTO films DEFAULT VALUES;
To insert multiple rows using the multirow VALUES syntax:
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As part of our ongoing investigation local private care home of horrors HOLMWOOD HOUSE, where we have reported the concerns of family members over several resident deaths and allegations of neglect, The BRISTOLIAN has taken delivery of a large bundle of medical documents. These relate to the management and distribution of controlled drugs there in 2013 – when the home was briefly managed by a State Registered Nurse (SRN), SIMONE SMITH.
We understand that the police have studied these documents and confirmed that a considerable number of them contain FORGED SIGNATURES. At present it is unclear who was responsible for the forgeries, as the police appear to have discontinued their inquiry.
Also in the bundle is evidence of a DRUG AUDIT ordered by then-manager Smith which was conducted by struck-off nurse ISLA MEEK, who was working at the home as a "consultant".
There's little doubt Meek did the work, as the audit was produced on the headed business paper of 'Isla Meek Consulting'. Obviously, a struck-off nurse should not be involved in any way in the management of controlled drugs at a nursing home.
in a further extraordinary twist, Smith is now using these dodgy drug audits herself as evidence to get another former nurse from the home STRUCK OFF by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). A hearing is expected later this year.
Smith left Holmwood House in the Autumn of 2013 and is now employed by Four Seasons Healthcare as a manager at OAKTREE CARE HOME in Yate. Four Seasons Healthcare rejects any claims of wrongdoing regarding Smith, and told The BRISTOLIAN that Bristol City Council's Safeguarding Team have described Smith as "a whistleblower"!
Although, as far as we can tell, the only whistleblowing Smith could have done would be in regards to her own management of controlled drugs.
Forged drug records? Bent audits? The Holmwood House affair gets a whole lot murkier…


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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
A World Without America Revisited
Tim's initative is a worthy one and I fully support his aims, but I do wonder if videos of this length work. IMHO they should be 30 seconds in length and hit you between the eyes.
Like the first video, this one will get a lot of notice in America, but that's not really the point. It's people in this country who need persuading that America is "a good thing". Tim's certainly got his work cut out on that one, and I wish AmericaInTheWorld well.
36 comments:
Putin seems to be doing a good job of countering anti-americanism at the moment.
- August 20, 2008 11:01 am
That was hilariously bad. "The heat's unbearable", says the totally unbelievable soldier, while sitting in what looks like Bromley.
- August 20, 2008 11:17 am
These videos don't work because they are made by people who think the counter to anti-Americanism is America-worship and more pertinently GOP-worship, which is very un-Tory.
Just because we would be in shtuck without the American army doesn't mean America's worst excesses can't be criticised, which is the upshot of these preachy vids. - August 20, 2008 11:35 am
I would have taken the website seriously if it wasnt so slavish and it resold the Iraq adventure as a success! that says a lot!
- August 20, 2008 12:03 pm
No doubt some people are anti-American. But my impression of most people who post on this site who apPEAR to be critical of America is that they are anti-stupidity. The more you desparately peddle the line that the Americans deserve our unreserved support the more, I suppose, suport you lose. The Europenas have not turned on the Americans baecause of jealously. They were willing thenm on. Show us how a grat democarcy can command world respect. Well, they didn't. Mom, I done shot me a Kraut/Commie/Raghead/ was their response. My father served in WWII and saw a GI cut down an elderly conscripted German who was trying to surrender. OK. That happens in all conflicts. It is despicable. The second wave of the Red Army who swept over Germany in 1944/45 raped and murdered. But is that our baseline?
America needs to recover is dignity, show itself to be worthy of international respect for better reasons than its economic and military power. - August 20, 2008 12:19 pm
- Aaron Murin-Heath said...
Pretty simple.
Elect Obama. Job done. - August 20, 2008 12:31 pm
- David Anthony said...
Oh dear. Not working for me I'm afraid.
Anti-Americanism won't be solved by quasi-US-military-signup propaganda. - August 20, 2008 12:31 pm
to balance some of the anti american bile (jealousy /envy ?), when told by a european politician that the americans were no longer welcome in europe and should go home, the american asked if that included all those buried in europe
whatever the rights and wrongs of the usa/uk relationship i would sooner have them there when the going gets tough than have to rely too much on some of our european 'partners' - August 20, 2008 12:36 pm
Re anonymous 12.36. An important point and well-taken.
But Hilter declared war on the USA, not the other way around. and yes, there was something called the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with its secret protoclas for carving up Poland, which the Nazis violiated. Stalin was no hero.
But the Americans came close to letting us go under. They helped us, they were the great aSrenal of democracy, in FDR's words, they attacked German ships, they provoked Hitler, but it was a close run thing which was only finally decided by Tojo. I admire America. Without them we'd all be speaking some other language, taught to us at a minimaL level to keep us minmimal. Only a fool would dispute that. But does that mean that we can't ask them to raise their game, to become worthy of our admiration once again? - August 20, 2008 1:01 pm
- PhilC said...
"the growing tide of anti-americanism in this country and beyond"
eh, it's been growing since the 1950s Iain.
And, if you've been unlucky enough to have been at the sharp end of American invasions in Central America, the Caribbean or the Philippines, well before that.
I know it's difficult to believe, but not everyone shares the worldview of people in comfy Kent. - August 20, 2008 1:25 pm
The problem with Tim Montgomery's view is equates pro-Americanism not just with pro-GOP, but with US Christian Conservatism. Frankly, given the number of raving loons and bigots that movement carries with it, that's going to be a hard sell.
- August 20, 2008 1:26 pm
The growing tide? The tide is currently receding. Also, what most people hate about america, whether they realise it or not, is the GOP. The Republicans are currently far to the right of our own Conservatives, so I don't know why any mainstream British conservative would ally or associate with them.
- August 20, 2008 1:49 pm
Also, this video utilises the classic tactic of setting up straw men to be brought down: it brings up WW2 and the cold war alongside the Iraq wars, as if the latter are comparable to the former - they clearly aren't. It took a few weeks to bring down Saddam Hussein, but how long and how many deaths did it take to bring down Hitler and Communism? The comparison is an insult to our intelligence.
In addition, the add infers that Europeans hate this 'soldier' and the American army collectively, and tries to mesh this with the 'pundits' who criticize the mission. It's the classic Republican smear, that if you don't support an aspect of foreign policy, you aren't supporting the troops. 'Support the troops' is now nothing but a slogan to hide the fact that Republicans consistently vote against additional equipment and education for the troops they supposedly support, and that the Bush administration has allowed conditions at veteran care hospitals to deteriorate to a horrific extent.
That is the real story of the US at the moment. I supported the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so I am no pacifist. But this ad is enough to make me angry. Either Tim Montgomerie hasn't bothered to look deeper than the talking points of chickenhawks, or he is willingly participating in deception.
The truth in these matters is more simple than the idiocy of slogans and of this ad. - August 20, 2008 2:03 pm
Curiously it was Blair who set in motion the split between the USA and UK by signing a secret treaty with other EU 'partners' back in 1999/2000 covering the development and purchase of arms. This treaty mandates european-only military equipment, so breaking our long standing relationships with the USA.
So if you want anti-americanism look no further than Blair. - August 20, 2008 2:26 pm
- Wrinkled Weasel said...
This is tragically naive - the whole concept - Just as well that it is too absurd to be taken seriously other than by the inhabitants of trailer parks.
It is as if the makers of this twaddle think we don't read the papers, watch TV or spend time reading and thinking about the issues or refer to history. In that respect it is condescending to the max.
I am minded to remember that those countries who are not democratic or popular, tend to preface the name of their homeland with "The Democratic and Popular" or those who falsely claim to be run by the people and call themselves "The Peoples' Republic...etc.
The point being that however much America claims to be the fairy godmother of the world and the land of the free, (and in this film, Saviour of the Jews, jsut for good measure) I am afraid I shall just think of How Nixon lied about Watergate, or how Valerie Plame's cover was blown because her husband questioned WMD, or Abu Graib or Guantanamo, or Korea or G Gordon Liddy, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Joseph McCarthy, Pinochet,My Lai, Enron, etc.
I suggest you read a little Noam Chomsky, Mr Montgomerie. - August 20, 2008 3:02 pm
God, i wondered how long it would be before someone bought up the dreaded name of Chomsky - possibly the most over-rated political commentator to have walked the earth. The man believes in anarchy, for crying out loud. He really should have stuck to teaching linguistics
As for the rest of Wrinkled Weasel's comments. Nobody's perfect and that is especially true of entire nations. As for your list of complaints with the US, well if that's the worse you can come up with then I'll be the first to shout God Bless America.
The US has never claimed to be "fairy godmother" of the world and for much of its history has had a marked reluctance to interfere in affairs beyond the American continents. That said, if I had to choose one country to be fairy godmother to the world, it would be very hard to look beyond the US
As for it being land of the free, with the exception of a few Western European countries, how many other nations are there where Mr Chomsky would still be free to spout his criticisms of the state that shelters and protects him (literally in Chomsky's case, I think)? - August 20, 2008 4:30 pm
And if Tim Montgomerie succeeds in getting us to like and respect the US what do we get in return? Will they stop forcing their unwelcome GM foods on countries that don't want them? Will it force Israel to return Palestinian land to the Palestinians and stop building illegal settlements? Will they stop exporting their brainless culture to the rest of the world?
- August 20, 2008 4:40 pm
I could never be anti-American. Most of my blood relatives are citizens of that country. They've all done well. we owe USA a lot! However, we have to accept that most Republicans would be sectioned if they lived in this country, or in any other one for that matter. If you're a Christian you realise just how dangerous some Americans have become. They actively preach end time theology. Ie, the interpretation of the book of Revelation that says it's our duty to bring about the end of the world through a war with Muslims (I suppose now Russia as well). They're egging on Iran (whose president shares a similar world view ironically), as this in their view would bring about the return of Jesus. I'm afraid electing Obama won't change anything. The guy wishes to be President and has courted all these groups that have the same crazy world view. he'd fight Iran and Pakistan at the drop of a hat, as he needs to prove to folks back home that he's not on the other side. I don't think we'll have a world without America, but I think Brits are becoming very wise that we'll eventually have a world where America would be on its own if it launches any crazy wars.
- August 20, 2008 5:00 pm
paolo @ 4.30 - well said. for all the things the usa as a political entity has done (and will do) that turns out to be wrong or selfish or just silly (and name any country that hasn't done all of these and more) i would still cheer, if i was in trouble, when the cavalry rides into sight.
the usa doesn't export its culture to unwilling recipients, we all
have the right to accept it or not and please do not whinge if you don't want it but others do, that is their right to choose and yours not too.
finally i also would not wish to live in a country containing in its title democratic,peoples popular or union including 'european union'(an organisation of most questionably worth and merit). - August 20, 2008 5:00 pm
Whilst you're correct that there are some worrying people on the religious right (and show me a religion, perhaps Buddhism excepted, that doesn't contain absolute nutters on its wider fringes), I think you over-estimate the influence that the serious nutters have
Yes, there is a religious influence to the Republicans, but there is to the Democrats as well (historically much of the southern bible belt were solidly behind the democrats), simply because the States is a religious nation. Yet, the seperation of church and state holds strong there despite some blurring of the lines.
Regrettably, both Iran and Pakistan are issues that will need to be dealt with - and not just to ensure the safety of the US, but of the Western world as a whole
I hope they can be dealt with peacefully (and despite what your average Guardian reader believes, the US will not want to go to war again unless it is absolutely unavoidable) but if, for example, Iran manages to obtain nuclear weapons, well then all bets are off. - August 20, 2008 5:22 pm
- Wrinkled Weasel said...
Chomsky is a dissenter. Something you must live with. I disagree with many of his ideas, but I don't plan to assassinate him or ban his books. It is just that, in this case, one has to be aware that not everyone loves the USA, or believes it has the moral or philosophical high ground.
I cited enough cases where the government of the USA or its servants have broken International Law, trodden on human rights, massacred or just played dirty tricks. Playing the "nobody's perfect card" is bizarre, isn't it? - August 20, 2008 5:35 pm
Wrinkled Weasel
Name me a country that hasn't done anything wrong...
The Anti-American French - they only supported the Hutu in Rwanda because they speak French and not the English spoken by the Tutsi
Russia - errr.... Chechnya, now Georgia. Next - Ukraine?
Belgium - don't seem to remember them having a fantastic record in central Africa
The UK - great record in Ireland, both historically and more recently... Suez...etc. Though I am no fan of historical revisionism, the carve up of Africa
and the UK's activities under Empire are not beyond criticism.
For what it's worth, I don't really give a toss about Guantanamo - if idiots chose to be in Afghanistan fighting for the taleban, they get what they deserve.
Although I don't often recommend him, I think you lefties should read the Richard Littlejohn article from earlier this week on the left's hypocrisy when it comes to war - bad if it's the US / West, but no protests if others do it. Where are the protests about Russia's behaviour in Georgia, or Chavez' intevention in Colombia? - August 20, 2008 6:25 pm
If the war had ended differently, there wouldn't have been a Berlin wall.
This is just risible. Even if you're sympathetic to Tim's argument (as I am), you end up being less sympathetic by the end of it. - August 20, 2008 6:27 pm
I don't really give a toss about Guantanamo - if idiots chose to be in Afghanistan fighting for the taleban, they get what they deserve.
Of course, we don't know that they were "in Afghanistan fighting for the taleban", because they apparently don't "deserve" a trial to establish guilt. Idiot. - August 20, 2008 6:39 pm
- Wrinkled Weasel said...
pop goes the weasel - I am not a LEFTIE!!!!
I admire Mrs Thatcher. The Falklands war was right. She broke the tyranny of the unions. I believe in capitalism and independent schools and forcefeeding my daughter CJD burgers just to prove a point and I want to ban the BBC.
I am an intellectual. It means I can see two sides to an argument. The USA is decadent, bankrupt and corrupt and if you cannot see that my arguments will piss you out of the window anytime, anywhere.
How very dare you! Lefty!!! Never! - August 20, 2008 7:14 pm
- Etienne du Clé said...
Your version *was* better. Much.
But if I had the time and resources I would love to do the rebuttal to the newer, sacchaine one.
I was pondering something analagous
on my own blog today: you would loathe every single thing I said. - August 20, 2008 7:37 pm
Most Brits aren't anti-American just anti-neo con. People in Britain generally love America as it's culture "appears" very similar to ours, yet is vastly different and much more appealing.
- August 20, 2008 8:08 pm
I was listening to newsnight there. Some American saying that Russia has chosen the path of agression and must be contained.
The very best of luck with that project, beacsue you will need all of it, you witless buffoon. Treat them as the legitimate power that they are or perish, Georgia is more democratic so must be defended eh? The UK is is supposed to be a democracy and I have yet to see one post on any blog which thinks that our present'leader' - Teamless GB - is to be respected. He wasn't actually elected to the job. OK, neither was Churchill, the first time around. Fair point. But see if you can spot the difference.
America is now the problem, not Russia. and I say that with the deepest regret. - August 20, 2008 11:05 pm
Iain, I'm sorry. I think you're a great bloke and your blog, like that of Tom harris, is a wonderful service to democracy. But this whole business with Russia and the reflexive response of the US and their poodle (US)has made me really angry. I can't stop thinking about it. I never write letters to the papers. Honestly. Maybe I should. I think Guido is interesting but mad. I think you are interesting but sane. Annoying when a sane person obviously disagrees with you but let't try to keep it sane.
Who was it who said, and I quote from memory, not google or a book, so don't be too harsh on me, something like the following, referring to events in 1941 'There was I, in the heart of this sullen Bolshevik state that I had tried so hard to strangle at birth'
Soemone who knew he had to deal with them, that's who. - August 20, 2008 11:25 pm
Wrinkled Weasel
I normally enjoy your comments on here, but really think you've lost the plot on this one.
"Chomsky is a dissenter" - wow, thanks for that insight. I fail to see how I am not living with this - my opinion is that his books on american policy are hardly worth the paper they are written on - it really doesn't keep me awake at nights. As for your comments about banning or assassinating him - where on earth did they come from?? If that's meant to be some kind of straw man, its pretty pathetic. After all, I pointed out that not only does America allow him to spout his idiocy but the very nation that he so disdains protects him out of public funds to keep the nutters away from him.
I cannot think of many other countries where this would be the case. Would Chomsky even be alive now if he was born in Russia and criticised it to the same extent?
I don't think anyone was arguing that the entire world loves or agrees with the US, were they?
What on earth is bizarre about saying that "nobody's perfect"? Nobody is. Every nation has their black marks, but if this is the worst you can hold against the US, then that puts them pretty much on the side of the angels in my book. You seem to have some kind of shiny moral standard that only you understand but that you measure the US against. Try measuring other nations against the same standard and see how they show up.
As to your later comments, what do you mean the US is decadent? How? Its sounds like you've never been within a thousand miles of the place. With a few exceptions, the last criticism you can level at the US is that its decadent. As for bankrupt, that applies more to our government than the US if you're talking fiscally, but somehow I don't think you were
Criticise the US and its policies by all means.
But save your hatreds for nations that truly deserve them.
Anon 11:05. Basic errors don't do your argument much good. UK prime minsters have never been directly elected by voters.
I really hope your lack of understanding of the UK political system is because you're Russian. Otherwise your last line could only be uttered by a complete and total fool. Unless you're actually Noam Chomsky. Hmmm...
You're right on one thing though. The very best of luck to anyone trying to contain Russia. They will need it and it will not be easy but it is certainly absolutely necessary - August 21, 2008 11:32 am
- Devil's Kitchen said...
Well, I think that it's great that he has actually managed to launch it; from here on in and going on past form, I give it two weeks...
DK - August 21, 2008 1:22 pm
- Sabretache said...
Cringingly bloody awful. Fawning, servile, mauldlin. An injured innocent exercise in how to be a successful poodle appreciated by your master. Tim Montgomery should be in line for a Tiny Blur awards I'd say.
- August 21, 2008 8:23 pm
"Pretty simple.
Elect Obama. Job done.
August 20, 2008 12:31 PM"
and elect somebody with ties to a former member of the Weathermen?
i dont think so. - August 22, 2008 12:16 am
the ad is also factually inaccurate.
at any one time, roughly 2/3's of the entire German army were tied up in the eastern front during WW2.
sad to say it , but the truth is - we wouldnt have won, without Soviet manpower.
if the entire german army faced us in normandy, we wouldnt have stood a chance.
thats just a fact of history. - August 22, 2008 12:53 am
Verity's Lovechild:
'Of course, we don't know that they were "in Afghanistan fighting for the taleban", because they apparently don't "deserve" a trial to establish guilt. Idiot.'
Errr, well, why exactly were they in Afghanistan? On holiday?! Seems pretty unlikely to me... All the explanations I've heard from their lawyers sound like BS to me. What's really disgraceful is not that these gits that want to kill us have been denied the rights that they would deny others, but that we've allowed some of them back here, presumably to promote Islamic fundamentalism...
Wrinkled Weasel
My apologies for the 'leftie' slur! But your comments do sound very Guardian-esque. 'Americans are stupid / decadent / etc.'
Well, some Americans are stupid. But so are many Brits - look at how many read the Sun, the Mirror or, for that matter, the moronic Guardian / Indescribably Boring. For their Jerry Springer, we have our own equivalents. Some Americans are decadent. Yes. And our footballers are not?
Most Americans I know are hard-working, God-fearing, good family people. That doesn't mean that they all are. But they deserve more than the BS that's thrown at them by socialists who are jealous of their success and wealth, or snobbery from Brits (which is just another manifestation of jealousy). - August 22, 2008 6:59 pm
- Martin Meenagh said...
This is very time specific. If America hadn't intervened in world war one, maybe there would have been no communism and no naziism. If America had not been around in the nineteenth century, maybe Britain would have been a looser global empire which would have wiped out slavery by 1840, and one which might not have incorporated Ireland and the Irish problem into Britain.
Maybe American Indians would have survived. Maybe Mexico would have split and reformed as a democratic state; maybe Hawaii would still exist as a peaceful kingdom; maybe Spanish, French and Portugese interference in South America would have actually resulted in the normalisation of the hemisphere before Britain kicked them out. Maybe the British would have wiped out the Barbary pirates and christianised the Ottoman Empire. Maybe globalisation would have arrived a hundred years early. Maybe modern capitalism wouldn't have been linked to military production schedules and schemes.
It's all quite airy-fairy. America does exist. It should stop spending far more than it can afford, not fight wars of choice without thinking about what it's doing, and elect Obama-Biden before it collapses. The better question to ask is not 'what would a world without America have been like?', its 'What will a world with a crippled or incapable or preoccupied America be like?'
Ask yourself about the PanaMcCainiac-Moonchild ticket-- 'he may be McCain--but is he able?' Able to reverse? Able to repair? or able just to follow the Bush-McCain line? - August 24, 2008 3:18 pm


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The Week-Long Discussion
Andrew Stellman, co-author of O'Reilly's excellent and easy-to-read C# intro, Head First C#, is holding a week-long "Inner Circle" discussion on C# and .NET 4.0 in the forums for O'Reilly's "Head First" book series. In this discussion, he plans to cover a wide range of topics, including:
- Why use C# instead of any other language?
- C# best practices
- Becoming a better C# developer
- Dealing with objects
- Productivity hints
- The best of C#
If you want to follow the discussion, simply point your browser at the Head First Labs Forums' "Head First C#" section and look for topics started by Andrew Stellman. You don't have to log in to just read, but you'll have to register for the forum if you want to join in the discussion and comment back.
The Challenge
In his first discussion topic, Andrew issues a challenge: build an old-school, text-mode game in C#! In the 1980s, the computing world was seen through the command line in an 80-character by 24-line grid (40 characters if you were on an Apple ][, Commodore 64 or Atari 400/800, even fewer if you were on a VIC-20), and that's how we played a lot of games, whether they were commercial or typed in from source code in magazine or books like the ones scanned into the Atari Archives.
If you've never written a text-mode game before (or in my case, if it's been a long, long time), he's written an article to help out — Understanding C#: Use System.Console to Build Text-Mode Games.
Your efforts in building an old-school text-mode game will not go unrewarded. Submit a text-mode game and you can win a prize! He'll judge them on the following criteria:
- Game play
- Fun
- Technical coolness
- General awesomeness
- "Retro nostalgia" for extra point
The winner will receive five O'Reilly eBooks of his or her choice. He'll also choose runners-up who will get a free O'Reilly eBook.
If you're looking for ideas for an old-school text-mode game, check out these books at Atari Archives, with source code written in old-school line-numbered BASIC. Some of these take me back to my high school days:
- Creating Adventure Games on Your Computer
- BASIC Computer Games
- More BASIC Computer Games
- Big Computer Games
- BASIC Computer Adventures
Video Q&A: Stellman on C#
As a prelude to the discussion, Andrew recorded videos of his answers to questions about the C# programming language and the second edition of Head First C#…


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Downtown Calistoga Hotel - A Napa Valley Escape
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Nestled in beautiful Napa Valley, The Bergson is a charming boutique hotel in Calistoga, California, where you can relax and feel the spirit of the wine country. Enjoy a romantic getaway at our intimate Calistoga inn where life slows down and you embrace the tranquility of Napa Valley, the most celebrated wine region in California. Unwind in 22 elegantly designed rooms and suites with balconies, feather beds, jetted tubs, and plush bathrobes.
Check out: 11:00 AM
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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 9, 2001
Remarks by the President During Federal Judicial Appointees Announcement
The East Room
Listen to the President's Remarks
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all very much. Attorney General, it's good to see you, sir, and happy birthday. Today is his birthday. Also, Judge Al Gonzales. Judge Gonzales is a great friend of mine who, fortunately, is my lawyer and is a part of the process, judicial selection process. Thank you for being here, Judge.
I'm also honored to welcome members of the United States Senate who are here to welcome the nominees to Washington: of course, Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman of the Judiciary; as well as Senator Patrick Leahy, ranking member on the Judiciary. It's good to see you men, thank you both for coming.
John Warner, George Allen, George Voinovich and last, but not least, Senator Strom Thurmond. Welcome. (Applause.) Thank you all for coming.
I'm pleased to welcome my judicial nominees to the White House. And I'm pleased to welcome their family and friends, as well.
This is a proud moment for all of you, and it's a proud moment for me, as well. A President has fewer greater responsibilities than that of nominating men and women to the courts of the United States. A federal judge holds a position of great influence and respect, and can hold it for a lifetime.
When a President chooses a judge, he is placing in human hands the authority and majesty of the law. He owes it to the Constitution and to the country to choose with care. I have done so.
With me this afternoon are my first 11 judicial nominees, individuals of experience and character. Four of them serve as United States district judges, all four confirmed by unanimous votes. Two others are sitting judges on state supreme courts. Four have served as law clerks in the Supreme Court of the United States. One has served here as an associate counsel to the President. One already holds the position for which I nominate him, by recess appointment of President Clinton.
These men and women have followed different paths to this nomination. They come from diverse backgrounds, and will bring a wide range of experience to the bench. All have sterling credentials and have met high standards of legal training, temperament and judgment.
As a group, they command broad, bipartisan support among those who know them and who have served with them. I submit their names to the Senate with full confidence that they will satisfy any test of judicial merit.
These first nominations are also an opportunity to outline the standards by which I will choose all federal judges. The American people expect judges of the highest caliber, and my nominees will meet that test. A judge, by the most basic measure, has an obligation shared by the President and members of Congress. All of us are constitutional officers, sworn to serve within the limits of our Constitution and laws. When we observe those limits, we exercise our rightful power. When we exceed those limits, we abuse our powers.
Every judge I appoint will be a person who clearly understands the role of a judge is to interpret the law, not to legislate from the bench. To paraphrase the third occupant of this house, James Madison, the courts exist to exercise not the will of men, but the judgment of law. My judicial nominees will know the difference. Understanding this will make them more effective in the defense of rights guaranteed under the Constitution, the enforcement of our laws, and more effective in assuming that justice is done to the guilty and for the innocent.
My standard is informed by the oath that each judge will take: to administer justice without respect to persons, and to do equal right to poor and to the rich. A good judge exercises these powers with discernment, courage and humility. These are commitments, not just to philosophy, but of character.
My nominees today and in the years to come will be notable for their distinction and accomplishments. And all will be exceptional for their humanity and their integrity. With today's 11 nominees, we continue a constitutional process that involves all three branches of government.
For many weeks now, we have sought and received advice from senators of both parties. I now submit these nominations in good faith, trusting that good faith will also be extended by the United States Senate. Over the years, we have seen how the confirmation process can be turned to other ends. We have seen political battles played out in committee hearings -- battles that have little to do with the merits of the person sitting before the committee.
This is not good for the Senate, for our courts or for the country.
There are, today, over a hundred vacancies on the federal courts, causing backlogs, frustration and delay of justice. I urge senators of both parties to rise above the bitterness of the past, to provide a fair hearing and a prompt vote to every nominee. That should be the case for no matter who lives in this house, and no matter who controls the senate.
I ask for the return of civility and dignity to the confirmation process. And with this distinguished group of nominees awaiting confirmation, there is no better opportunity than right now. I congratulate all of you on your service past, and for your service to come.
God bless. (Applause.)


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Kanye West and Russell Simmons Visit Occupy Wall Street Protest, Leave Quickly [PICTURE]
The Occupy Wall Street protests are going strong in several cities, and now famous names are starting to get involved.
Gothamist reports that hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons guided Kanye West through the crowds of the Occupy protest in New York City's Zuccotti Park on Monday afternoon, but their brush with the front lines of class warfare didn't last long. After a brief cameo, both Simmons and West got into a car and left.
The duo are already getting complaints about the short appearance, but Simmons tweeted that just the fact that West made an appearance means that it's "inspiring to others to see him there. Maybe he and others concerned will organize a big rally (?)" Of course, now that Simmons said that publicly, West will probably have to organize a big rally.
The oddest part of the Occupy Wall Street Twitter posts from Simmons is this tweet, where Simmons says that Kanye was "sweet and tolerant to the crowd." Yuck. Occupy Def Jam Headquarters, anyone?
[via Gothamist]


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Wed, 02-May-2007 by Rosellyne Thompson edit post
I am pleased to announce that Shlomi Fish has completed his XML::RSS cleanup grant. In his own words, Shlomi has summarised the work he's done and offers his thanks to those who helped him transform XML::RSS into a high quality tool for the community:
This is a summary of a Perl Foundation XML::RSS grant, I've been doing. Its scope was for two or three months from 1 January, 2007 onwards, with a lot of work done by me before the grant application was submitted.
I've kept a journal on my work by writing entries in my use.perl.org weblog. Here are the links to them.
Before receiving the grant:
After receiving the grant:
- XML::RSS - Grant Application Was Accepted + Update
- Yet Another XML-RSS Update
- XML::RSS Update: Full Test Coverage
- XML::RSS Update: Refactoring
Now for some general commentary. Ask Bjørn Hansen has been doing extraordinary work taking care of the perl.org infrastructure, and also became the maintainer of the XML::RSS module. He has been very helpful in commenting on my patches and applying them, guiding me through the process, and providing feedback.
Our process in working on XML::RSS was the following:
At first we did some work on reducing the number of open bugs to a minimum. This either involved correcting the code, and closing duplicate bugs or ones that were too obscure.
After that and during development, we worked on expanding and extending the XML::RSS test suite. Devel-Cover by Paul Johnson was a huge help here, in locating things we did not cover yet.
We emphasised making sure the tests were meaningful, and reflected the functionality of the module.
During the testing stage, some hard-to-find bugs were fixed.
After we had a 100% test coverage, we started with mercilessly refactoring the code. Many methods were extracted and encapsulated, an XML element generation code was added and eventually, each RSS version backend became its own class. Finally, the parsing was made cleaner and more robust, while overcoming some of XML::Parser's inherent shortcomings.
For now, it seems the code is squeaky clean.
All these modifications were incorporated into version 1.29_02 of XML::RSS, which is a development version. Expect them in the stable XML::RSS version 1.30 soon.
I'd like to thank Ask for his co-operation and support; Paul Johnson for writing the Devel-Cover module; the TPF people (Curtis "Ovid" Poe and others) for accepting my grant, and for guiding me through the grant process; and all the people who reported bugs or supplied feedback.
Peace, Love, Camels and web feed mangling!
It's been a pleasure working with Shlomi and I'd like to take this opportunity to wish him every success in his future projects!
#grants #perl #shlomi-fish #xml::rssThe Perl Foundation - supporting the Perl community since 2000. Find out more at www.perlfoundation.org.


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Video testimony has been held by many to be a big improvement over a paper transcript. You can see facial expressions, assess the tone of voice, and evaluate delays in answering. Bill Gates learned that lesson years ago with his much-maligned video deposition with the "long pauses before [he] answered the simplest of queries…[and] the hint of contempt in his voice."
But the "what you see is what you get" belief that we have in video may change, if the testimony is electronically transmitted. Video testimony in the coming years might not be quite as reliable as we'd like to think.
Will it be our eyes that are deceiving us? No. It may be technology. Is this the future of law?
As per Apple Insider, in discussing a new patent issued today regarding video transmission over low-bandwidth, we may be in for a subtle but significant change. This is the problem that Apple seeks to fix:
Currently, video communication over cellular data is spotty in many areas due to bandwidth restrictions and existing wireless technology. In some cases, features like Apple's FaceTime are nearly unusable due to dropped frames, extremely low-resolution images and poor audio quality.
How does Apple want to deal with that? By taking sample frames from the call that had been used previously and morphing them into the live conversation, to give the illusion of a constant video stream. In other words — and this is the part that would interest lawyers and judges — the visual cues from the speakers' faces may not match with the words that are actually being used.
Again, as per Apple Insider:
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple invention that replaces frames dropped during a low-bandwidth FaceTime call with pre-recorded or doctored images, thereby creating the illusion of a seamless feed.
Sometimes we see problems in movies and shows where the "sound is off" — as a fraction of a second misalignment messes with our brains. But in the Apple solution, they will simply morph old frames in so that it becomes seamless. The facial expressions you see might be for a different set of words that were previously used.
Is this a problem today? No. Will it be in five years? Check back with me then.


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Gelly provides a collection of scalable graph generators. Each generator is
Graph generators are configured using the builder pattern. The parallelism of generator
operators can be set explicitly by calling setParallelism(parallelism)
. Lowering the
parallelism will reduce the allocation of memory and network buffers.
Graph-specific configuration must be called first, then configuration common to all
generators, and lastly the call to generate()
. The following example configures a
grid graph with two dimensions, configures the parallelism, and generates the graph.
A circulant graph is an oriented graph configured with one or more contiguous ranges of offsets. Edges connect integer vertex IDs whose difference equals a configured offset. The circulant graph with no offsets is the empty graph and the graph with the maximum range is the complete graph.
An undirected graph connecting every distinct pair of vertices.
An undirected graph where the set of edges form a single cycle by connecting each vertex to two adjacent vertices in a chained loop.
An echo graph is a
circulant graph with n
vertices defined by the width of a
single range of offsets centered at n/2
. A vertex is connected to 'far'
vertices, which connect to 'near' vertices, which connect to 'far' vertices, ….
A graph containing no edges.
An undirected graph connecting vertices in a regular tiling in one or more dimensions.
Each dimension is configured separately. When the dimension size is at least three the
endpoints are optionally connected by setting wrapEndpoints
. Changing the following
example to addDimension(4, true)
would connect 0
to 3
and 4
to 7
An undirected graph where edges form an n
-dimensional hypercube. Each vertex
in a hypercube connects to one other vertex in each dimension.
An undirected graph where the set of edges form a single path by connecting
two endpoint
vertices with degree 1
and all midpoint vertices with degree
. A path graph can be formed by removing a single edge from a cycle graph.
A directed power-law multigraph generated using the Recursive Matrix (R-Mat) model.
RMat is a stochastic generator configured with a source of randomness implementing the
interface. Provided implementations are JDKRandomGeneratorFactory
and MersenneTwisterFactory
. These generate an initial sequence of random values which are
then used as seeds for generating the edges.
The default RMat constants can be overridden as shown in the following example. The constants define the interdependence of bits from each generated edge's source and target labels. The RMat noise can be enabled and progressively perturbs the constants while generating each edge.
The RMat generator can be configured to produce a simple graph by removing self-loops and duplicate edges. Symmetrization is performed either by a "clip-and-flip" throwing away the half matrix above the diagonal or a full "flip" preserving and mirroring all edges.
An undirected graph containing isolated two-paths where every vertex has degree
An undirected graph containing a single central vertex connected to all other leaf vertices.


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Hydropower and ocean energy
Traditional hydropower systems have been in use for hundreds of years as a source of energy for a wide variety of mechanical applications. As such, hydropower represents a renewable energy source that has been successfully used for a long time. Since the beginning of hydropower-generated electricity, the percentage of electrical energy generated in this way has grown to around one quarter of all the electricity used worldwide.


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The idolatries committed by the Jewish rulers. (1-6) The superstitions to which the Jews were then devoted, the Egyptian. (7-12) The Phoenician. (13,14) The Persian. (15,16) The heinousness of their sin. (17,18)1-6 The glorious personage Ezekiel beheld in vision, seemed to take hold upon him, and he was conveyed in spirit to Jerusalem. There, in the inner court of the temple, was prepared a place for some base idol. The whole was presented in vision to the prophet. If it should please God to give any man a clear view of his glory and majesty, and of all the abominations committing in any one city, he would then admit the justice of the severest punishments God should inflict thereon.
7-12 A secret place was, as it were, opened, where the prophet saw creatures painted on the walls, and a number of the elders of Israel worshipped before them. No superiority in worldly matters will preserve men from lust, or idolatries, when they are left to their own deceitful hearts; and those who are soon wearied in the service of God, often grudge no toil nor expense when following their superstitions. When hypocrites screen themselves behind the wall of an outward profession, there is some hole or other left in the wall, something that betrays them to those who look diligently. There is a great deal of secret wickedness in the world. They think themselves out of God's sight. But those are ripe indeed for ruin, who lay the blame of their sins upon the Lord.
13-18 The yearly lamenting for Tammuz was attended with infamous practices; and the worshippers of the sun here described, are supposed to have been priests. The Lord appeals to the prophet concerning the heinousness of the crime; "and lo, they put the branch to their nose," denoting some custom used by idolaters in honour of the idols they served. The more we examine human nature and our own hearts, the more abominations we shall discover; and the longer the believer searches himself, the more he will humble himself before God, and the more will he value the fountain open for sin, and seek to wash therein.
Commentary by Matthew Henry, 1710.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Other Pooch
16 comments:
- Brenda said...
Oh my gosh, these photos are adorable!! And I had to scan back a few posts... I was thinking "wait...the dogs are on the bed??" You know, even though Lady, Lucky, and Katie are not allowed on the furniture, I really DO miss cuddling with a dog the way I would if there were allowed up. But acres of dog hair and those disturbing... er.... "smudges"... can't be on the furniture. But! I like your idea! Get a dog bed and lounge with them there! Hmmmmm...
- February 9, 2012 at 7:18 AM
- Two Grad Students and a Pittie said...
Love those photos! Poor Mr. B!
- February 9, 2012 at 7:27 AM
- Of Pit Bulls and Patience said...
Aw, poor B. Sinatra was always a competitive snuggler, which left Parker all by himself a lot of the time. Of course, he didn't have anyone trying to use him as a pillow either...
- February 9, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- Mayzie said...
Awwww...Mr. B, you're such a good boy.
That's why mom says she doesn't think we can ever get a 3rd doggie. Mom and Dad each have one to cuddle and they wouldn't want to leave anybuddy out.
Wiggles & Wags,
Mayzie - February 9, 2012 at 7:58 AM
- Kate said...
Mr. B is such a love. I can't enough of him.
- February 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM
- PoochesForPeace said...
Sweet miss Bessie bell has such a sweet face. She just looks so sensitive and sweet, love it. Her name seems to fit her perfectly!
- February 9, 2012 at 8:27 AM
- 2 Punk Dogs said...
Poor Mr.B, he looks so squashed! He should know better than to go into her crate, so he must secretly like her hugs.
- February 9, 2012 at 7:04 PM
- Two Kitties One Pittie said...
This is adorable...Mr. B. is so tolerant. I often wonder how Zoe would react if there was another dog around here. Whenever one of the cats try to cuddle with us, Zoe gets very jealous and runs them off. Hmm...
- February 9, 2012 at 8:27 PM
- Tucker The Crestie said...
Love these photos ... Bessie Belle sure looks happy and snug. Mr. B looks ... longsuffering.
- February 9, 2012 at 9:40 PM
- Two French Bulldogs said...
we never loved 2 pit bulls like you guys...adorable
Benny & Lily - February 9, 2012 at 10:42 PM
- A Wonderful Dogs Life said...
Awww, they are all so cute.
Poor Mr.B he's going to get flattened.
Emma - February 10, 2012 at 12:15 AM
- pibble said...
Oh, it's not Bessie's fault that she's so darned cuddly!
- February 10, 2012 at 5:22 AM
- Sarah Loves to Bake said...
My girls have a very similar situation - My mutt is the body pillow for our Pit!
http://pittiefullove.wordpress.com/about/ - February 10, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Vicki said...
Those are some happy happy dogs. You guys are amazing.
- February 11, 2012 at 4:28 PM
- Kitty+Coco said...
Bessie Belle is a scene stealer for sure. She is absolutely adorable. It is a good thing Mr. B is not the jealous type! Such a gentleman, as always.
- February 13, 2012 at 3:04 PM
- Mary said...
Miss M thinks this is the perfect arrangement-she gets Mr. B all to herself. I wouldn't be able to resist snuggling Bessie Belle either.
I ordered one of those duvet beds last week and can't wait for it to get here. - February 13, 2012 at 9:40 PM


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This has been so exciting! I finally joined Instagram! Just kidding. Well, I did join Instagram, but that was the exciting part. I decided to try it out, and use it to publish all my pictures while visiting NASA Ames Research Center for the Rover tests by the Intelligent Robotics Group.
K10 Rover at NASA Ames Roverscape
Click to see album of pictures!
Click to see album of pictures!
I also dusted off my YouTube channel and took some videos of the most amazing rover test I've ever seen up close!
With coordinated help and checklists from NASA Ames Multi-Mission Operations Center (MMOC), and NASA Marshall's ISS Payload Operations, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano remotely tested the K10 Telerobotics Lunar Rover from the International Space Station (ISS)!
Every time you see this little guy move, it was being controlled from an astronaut in orbit around the Earth! So very awesome. Listen for the Mission Control chatter at the end, as well as the amusing Pac-Man sound effects. It did a funny R2-D2 impression as well, though I didn't happen to catch it on-camera.
Note the giant Wind Tunnel in the background of the NASA Ames Roverscape, the research facility used to design and test new (commercial and military) aircraft, as well as NASA space vehicles, including the Space Shuttle. At 80x120, it's the largest wind tunnel in the world!
After Luca Parmitano completed his remote Telerobotics tests, and a survey of the terrain that will hopefully someday be used on the Moon, we went out into the roverscape to see the K10 up close. Close enough to touch, even. And, when it started moving again, to hear it hum and beep. Can't wait for one of these to explore the Lunar surface!
After the robot fun in the morning, we also saw the IRIS and LADEE mission control centers, the new exhibits at the Ames Visitor Center, and the Lunar Science Institute. Not a bad way to pass the time in sunny California!
To see the robotics tests video clips in larger frames, visit my Pillownaut YouTube Channel, and to see the rest of our day in pictures, please visit my Pillownaut Picasa photo albums.


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Hello, So I have Windows 10 installed in a M.2 SSD drive and I want to install Bodhi in an HDD.
I already have a bootable USB drive that successfully loads Bodhi.
In the Bodhi installation process there`s a field that tells "Device for Boot Loader Installation" and it`s set to my SSD drive by default where Windows is installed.
My doubt is, what in heaven do I select ins this field (Device for Boot Loader Installation)? The SSD drive that already has Windows OS in it or the HDD where I want to install Linux?
Sorry for the silly question, but I have never done this before.