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I am migrating SQLServer2000(Win2000) to Oracle 9i(AIX) using OMWB.
There some problems :
- CHAR(8) in MSSQL must be transffered to CHAR(20) in Oracle This column has Non english encrypted character . If I dont make the oracle column CHAR(20), I will get : ORA-01401 -> inserted value too large for column..
Is this all about character set problem ??
I check in Oracle :
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET = AL16UTF16 I check in SQL Server :
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STUDENTS of Davuilevu Methodist Primary School, Nausori have taken the initiative to become responsible Fiji citizens by keeping their compounds clean.
This was demonstrated to these students at their inaugural World Environment Day celebrations with the theme Raise your Voice, not waste level yesterday.
Teacher Fane Saumaibulu said they chose the theme because they wanted it to suit their context.
"We want to bring it closer to our environment and school context," Mrs Saumaibulu said.
"Every day, we see waste around us and that's a real problem in Fiji today so we are trying to empower and make awareness to our parents on how they can be role models to our children and to manage their litter at home. This is our first environment week celebration and we thought of doing a fashion show for these students so we can engage their parents, so we share knowledge and how to utilise especially in terms of art."
Students dressed up in traditional iTaukei costumes as well as garbage bags, old newspaper cuttings and empty plastic cuttings to celebrate the occasion.
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Amber Springer Lanning leaned cross-legged against a bar table as she whispered her lines to herself, preparing Monday night for a run-through at The Gig.
The Beaumont native, who now lives in Germany, has returned to play several roles in a four-actor play put on by Studio 33.
She said it's tempting when an offer comes along that allows her to work with people she loves and come home.
Lanning said acting gives her an opportunity to work through the human experience.
"I love acting because it allows me to explore different aspects of humanity and portray that on stage," she said.
Ashley Riley, longtime friend and artistic director of Studio 33, asked Lanning to be a part of the show.
Riley said she started Studio 33 in 2010 because she wanted Beaumont to have a professional theater company.
On Thursday, the studio will start performances of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change."
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Can a warrant be issued for my arrest for non payment on a title loan? 2 Answers as of July 07, 2011I took out a $2000 title loan on my motorcycle (valued at aprx $6000) the first of May. Due to hardships I have not been able to pay and we are about to file bankruptcy. I plan on keeping the bike for transportation. I am getting threatening phone calls that they are going to issue a warrant for my arrest if I do not turn the bike over. Is this just a threat or can they actually have me arrested?
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Well, I believe that the answer is "yes, an arrest warrant will be issued." But I don't think it would be for your failure to pay the loan exactly. Rather, I think the more appropriate warrant would be for your theft of their motorcycle. If your loan was like most title loans, the ownership of the vehicle passed to the lender. Thus, they now own the motorcycle. They have agreed to transfer back to you when you finish paying. The bankruptcy may help you with the debt you owe, but it won't turn their motorcycle back into your motorcycle. Frankly, I think that a warrant will almost certainly be issued for your arrest for the offense of theft by conversion. They will have a strong case against you. I suggest that you take whatever paperwork you have about this title loan and have a lawyer review it, just to make sure. But, if yours is like most title loans, the bike is now theirs and you will most likely have a warrant out for you shortly, and it will be for a felony. You don't need that. Consult with a lawyer.
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They can have you arrested. You will either pay the money owed, or give them the motorcycle, or a warrant for concealment of property subject to a security interest (O.C.G.A. 16-9-51(a)) will be issued.
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vTAS is a Three Axis Spectrometer simulator written in Java. It is aimed at making easier the understanding of the behavior of the instrument and its limits. It supports both the classical TAS geometry and that of the multiplexer FLATCONE (ILL). vIMPS and vUFO are part of the vTAS suite but address other multiplexed TAS geometries.
vTAS - A Virtual Three Axis Spectrometer
by Martin Böhm, Alain Filhol and Yannick Raoul
Using a Three Axis Spectrometer (TAS) is not easy since one has constantly translate parameters from real space to reciprocal space and vice versa
Simulation mode: vTAS allows experimentation with sample parameters, for example the Miller indices of the unit cell, whilst maintaining a representation of the instruments physical state, for example the location of the walls around the instrument, and its angular limits.
Data viewer mode: vTAS is capable of reading ILL TAS data files. It displays both the data and the corresponding instrument configuration.
Ref.: "The vTAS suite: a simulator for classical and multiplexed three-axis neutron spectrometers"
The vTAS suite is now a single application vTIU regrouping three simulators:
An early version of vTAS was developped by Alain Bouvet in 1998.
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Requires Java 2 v1.6 or higher.
Release date: 29 janvier 2013
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Here what you need to know for a good experience with the vTAS interface.
vTAS is a free application. Use it at your own risks. Neither the authors nor the ILL endorse or accept any responsibility for problems or wrong results you may obtain with it. No support is provided but feedback is warmly welcome -> <filhol(at)ill.eu>.
vUFO now implements instrument resolution calculation through both the Cooper Nathan's method. It also implements the McTAS approach, i.e. a Monte Carlo simulation.
vIMPS by Martin Boehm, Emmanuel Farhi, Alain Filhol and Yannick Raoul.
vUFO by Emmanuel Farhi, Alain Filhol, Yannick Raoul and W. Schmidt
Yannick Raoul (ILL) fully rewrote the mathematical part and most of the core and GUI functions of vTAS. The application is now functional and new options were added:
Peter Braden (University of St. Andrews, UK) : As the codebase had become very messy, completely reimplemented the program to modern software engineering principles, expanded on the visualisations offered, and improved the usability of the interface. Report
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Soup, delicious soup! This recipe for White Bean Soup is probably the best I've ever made and one little ingredient made all the difference in the world to the flavor. Unfortunately, we didn't get to eat the entire pot, but more on that later. Packed with white beans, Italian sausage, onion, garlic, celery, carrots, tomato, kale and baby spinach, this soup is nutritious as well as delicious.
This morning as I sat on the upper front porch drinking my coffee, somewhere off in the fog-shrouded trees, I heard the first whippoorwills singing their distinctive song. That is a sign of Spring that I am so happy to hear! And, it's the first sign of Spring that has arrived early this year (normally they don't begin their mating calls until early April in these parts). I don't know about you, but I'm pretty much over winter.
While we are still experiencing the frigid weather of Winter, though, I thought another soup would be just the thing. And I was right. This soup was delightful on a gloomy, grey day when we had freezing rain and temperatures hovering in the low 30's.
I used some Italian Sausage that a good friend of ours made; it was a mild bulk sausage. So, if you purchase mild Italian sausage in links, just remove the casing and crumble to brown. The reason I added spinach is that even though I bought a huge bundle of kale, once I added it to the soup, it wasn't enough green to satisfy me. So, if you don't want to have two greens just double the amount of kale.
What made this soup the best version I've ever done is one simple ingredient I always keep on-hand for cooking: Vermouth. I used a dry version by Noilly Prat. Vermouth is a fortified wine aromatised with various roots, barks, flowers, seeds, herbs and spices; it adds tremendous depth of flavor to cooking. If you don't have vermouth handy, you could substitute a dry white wine. But do consider adding some vermouth to your pantry.
Other than that ingredient, everything else is pretty straight-forward and things you'll likely have in on-hand.
I'd love to tell you how fabulous this soup was as left-overs, or how it freezes (although I'm sure it is great for both), but tragedy struck. I was reeeeeheally tired the day I made this, so after cleaning up the kitchen, I left the stockpot on the stove to cool so I could store it. I went upstairs to get ready for bed, lie down to read for a bit and fell sound asleep. Not only did I not put the soup away, I had left the burner on. It's a wonder I didn't burn the house down during the night.
The next morning Mr. Saucy and I both smelled something odd and commenting on it. Well, damned if I didn't find a pan full of char on the stove (appropriate that I should be publishing this on Ash Wednesday *smile*). I'll definitely be making this soup again soon, since neither of us got our fill of it. I hope you'll give it a try, just don't leave it on the stove!
- 1 pound mild Italian Sausage, crumbled
- 1 medium-sized onion, chopped (about 1 cup)
- ½ cup chopped celery
- ½ cup peeled, sliced carrot
- 5 cloves garlic, minced
- ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
- ½ cup vermouth (or dry white wine)
- 2 -15 ounce cans of white beans, drained and rinsed (I used a combination of Northern and Cannellini)
- 1 -14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes, with liquid
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups water
- 6 cups torn kale leaves
- 6 ounces baby spinach leaves
- In a large stockpot, over medium heat, add the sausage, onion, celery and carrots, breaking up the sausage as it browns.
- Continue to cook until the sausage is browned and the vegetables are softened, about 5 minutes.
- If you have a large amount of fat accumulated in the pot, drain it off.
- Add the garlic and crushed red pepper flakes and continue to cook for about 1 minute.
- Pour in the vermouth, scraping up any browned bits on the bottom of the pan. This is called "deglazing."
- Continue to cook for about 2 minutes.
- Add the beans, tomatoes (with their liquid), the chicken stock and water. Stir to combine.
- Add the torn kale leaves and the baby spinach leaves, stir to combine and cover the pot.
- Allow to simmer for about 30 minutes.
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Create an organizer to collect and to identify political, cultural, and social forces shaping British literature from Puritanism to the Enlightenment.
Analyze the effects of Puritanism, the English civil war, and the Enlightenment.
PURITAN: What does this term mean to you?
ENLIGHTENMENT: What do you know about this period?
1) Lead class through a demonstration to create a 6-tab note-taking booklet to collect historical background on the period.
2) Present three big thematic questions:
- What were the essential features of Puritanism?
- What factors contributed to the outbreak of the English civil war?
- What were the goals of the English Enlightenment?
3) Preview the period by discussing British political leaders in the 17th century.
4) Read aloud, discuss, and take notes on "Historical, Social, and Cultural Forces" (British Literature, pp. 498-99).
5) Share information gathered in note-taking activity to summarize
27 March
Collect and identify political, cultural, and social forces shaping British literature from Puritanism to the Enlightenment.
Use synonyms and suffixes to create sentences that analyze 17th century British history.
Scan through the information on pp. 496-97 in British Literature. State two generalizations about London in the 1660s. Then, circle two words in each statement, and write a synonym for each circled word.
1) Students share generalizations on 1660s London. Students share original words from the statements and their synonym substitutions.
2) Students engage in silent and sustained reading of the "Big Ideas" on pp. 500-505 in British Literature while taking notes in their note-taking booklet created yesterday.
3) HOMEWORK: Complete the two-sided worksheet on using suffixes and synonyms to analyze the historical forces shaping England from Puritanism to the Enlightenment. (DUE Wednesday, 3/28)
4) Exit ticket: On a clean sheet of paper, answer the following questions
- Summarize the key points of the philosophies of the Puritans.
- Summarize the key points of the philosphies of the Enlightenment.
- Which aspects of each school of thought influence the way we think today?
28 March
Identify and use satire to criticize problems in society.
Locate and evalutate satire in various types of writing.
Connect the historical context of poor conditions in Ireland in the first half of the 1700s to satirical literature from the Enlightenment.
List two institutuions or customs in our society that you believe deserve to be criticized. Write two sentences for each which explain your criticism.
1) Students share ideas on social problems, and look for humourous ways to present the issues.
2) Define satire, and discuss the effectiveness of its use to address social problems.
3) Students read a modern satirical news article and discuss the effectiveness of satire to deliver the critical message.
4) Discuss the historical background to the economic hardships faced by Ireland in the 1700s.
5) Students read the first part of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" to identify the problem and to identify Swift's proposed solution.
29 March
Identify and analyze satire in literature from the English Enlightenment.
Identify and use satire to criticize problems in society.
Read the first paragraph on p. 548 in British Literature. Do you agree with the statement that a "deep love of humanity" can move someone to write things that are "deeply critical of humanity"? Write three sentences defending your position.
1) Discuss student responses to bellwork.
2) In PODS, students will read the third and fourth sections of "A Modest Proposal." After each section, students will discuss possible responses to the questions on the "Guided Reading" handout.
3) Revisit the bellwork from yesterday to encourage students to find creative and satirical ways of framing a problem they have identified with contemporary society.
30 March
Identify and evaluate satire from a variety of sources including visual materials.
Create statements using satirical devices to identify a problem in society.
Watch a short satirical news video, and identify the devices of satire used in the piece. While watching the video, write down the following:
- List statements of satire spoken in the satirical news story. (Identify satirical devices)
- Which of the statements is the most humorous? Explain your choice.
- Is the satire effective? Why or why not?
- What is the purpose of the satire? In other words, what are the social commentaries being made in the story?
1) Discuss student evaluations of satire's effectiveness in the satirical news video story.
2) Students use the "Guided Reading Questions" handout to assist in reading comprehension.
2) HOMEWORK: Distribute "Create Your own Satire" handout. Students will work on the handout to develop their ideas using satirical devices effectively to defend a solution to a social problem. (DUE Monday 4/2)
3) HOMEWORK: Students will finish reading "A Modest Proposal;" then complete the questions on the "Satire in A Modest Proposal" handout. (DUE Monday 4/2)


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text: When I decided to adopt from Hearts United for Animals in 2010, I somehow narrowed my decision down to two dogs: Mamba and Emilia. For some reason I thought that meeting them both at the shelter would make the decision easier! After many long conversations and crying, I decided that I simply had to have both of these sweethearts! I adopted Emilia in July of 2010. We are not exactly sure what Emilia's back story is. Hearts United for Animals rescued her from a local shelter at about one year old and at first thought she was pregnant. I noticed on her vet papers that she had a hysterectomy so I wonder if she was unable to deliver a litter. The only other thing I can speculate is that someone was not nice to her. She really wants to love everyone but is still shy around new people and is very reserved. She is very loving to her owners and new people once they have been around for a few minutes but sometimes even when I lean down to pet her she steps back, almost as if she's afraid she's going to be hit. However, I think in a few months or years Emilia will learn that no one is going to hurt her anymore and will become the fun, loving, playful sweetheart that I already see in her.Add to Favorites


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Topic: Restaurant
Don't forget the unicorns, work with them instead.
By Dennis Jones · 21 October, 2015
Last week, James Quinn, the Group Business Editor of Telegraph Media Group, wrote that Domino's Pizza is 'far more valuable a digital company than any tech unicorn' (read the full piece here). It is a good opinion piece, and we agree that Domino's has seen major success in their investment in digital and mobile channels (we like what they did with their app, we even wrote about it here). However, it is rather concerning that one of our country's leading business voices doesn't seem to buy into the future of London: 'so-called unicorn tech companies'.
Hummus Bros partners with Judo Payments for queue-busting mobile app
By Janice Tong · 17 February, 2015
App to harness customer loyalty and maximise sales during busy lunchtime rush by reducing queueing time.
17 February, London 2015 – Judo Payments ("Judo", www.judopay.com), Europe's only mobile-first payments platform, today announces its partnership with Levantine inspired restaurant chain Hummus Bros.
Judo's technology enables Hummus Bros' loyal customers to beat the lunchtime rush through a seamless and intuitive mobile experience. Customers who know what they want before stepping in-store can now maximise their lunch hour by using the Hummus Bros app to order and pay wherever they are, then collect their meal when it's ready.
Seven ways that restaurants can take advantage of mobile
By Janice Tong · 18 September, 2014
If you haven't heard, we're running a restaurant giveaway this month – a free branded app with pre-loaded features that are beneficial to any restaurant, big or small, plus one year of free card processing up to £100,000. (If you're interested, click here to find out more.) An app is the best possible tool for any restaurant to distill and retain its customers' loyalty, but of course it is not the be all and end all of a mobile strategy. Which is why we are sharing this post with you, to give you some idea of how you as a restaurant owner can leverage mobile as a revenue channel.
Does your restaurant need a mobile app?
By Janice Tong · 17 July, 2014
Most restaurants now have a website and social media presence. Those channels have become the basic standard methods for promoting a restaurant. But if you really want to stand out from the crowd and foster customer loyalty, a mobile app is the answer. The article below briefly explains why you need an app and how to reap the full benefit of having one:
Mobile trends series part 1: The everyday sale
Mobile trends are ever changing, and we want to help keeping up with them a little easier for you. In this Mobile Trend series, we look into how mobile is impacting different markets, and give you a better idea of how to make an app a big hit among your target consumers.
Satisfy your 'App'etite for customers
Walk down Brick Lane in East London, and the curry touting scene along the way will sure leave you a bad taste. Yes, it's tough to stand out from the restaurant pack, but what if we tell you that it does not have to be painful and ugly? What if we tell you that you can also be the leader of the pack?
If you love a diner, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours
By Janice Tong · 25 April, 2014
There is a wonderful little SiChuan-style Chinese restaurant that delivers in my area. They are the perfect solution for when I just want to eat in my pajamas and couldn't give a hoot about calorie intake. I order from them so much that the mobile app I usually use to place my order already knows what my go-to items are on the menu. The entire purchase process is as short as a few minutes, stomach fed within 30 minutes, carb coma within the hour after. And I always go back for more.


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How Environmentally Friendly is Cruising?
People who choose to study abroad frequently do so because they have a strong interest in seeing the world and experiencing new sights. It is therefore little wonder that many foreign students are also fans of cruise holidays. The problem with this lies in the fact that students tend to be a particularly environmentally conscious demographic. According to a report cited by the Association for Consumer Research, they have a tendency to be more aware of green issues because they usually experience a high degree of exposure to them. So how green is the cruise industry? Do cruises pollute the world more than other types of holiday? Probably not, as companies have been making a concerted effort to provide more environmentally friendly cruises in recent years.
Boat Design
Modern boats are being created with green issues in mind in order to minimize their impact upon the environment. One of the most significant changes that has been implemented is that which has been made to the hulls of these vehicles. They are now painted using silicon-based paint, which enables them to glide through the seas more easily, decreasing the amount of fuel that is required in order to propel them.
Air Conditioning
One of the biggest drains upon cruise vessels' resources is air conditioning. Constant recycling and cooling of the air around public spaces and cabins takes up a large amount of energy. In order to reduce the level to which energy is wasted by air con, Holland America Line have covered their boat windows in a layer of dark film that offers protection from the sun's heat. This reduces the level of work that the air conditioning system needs to do. Some cruise providers also ensure that the energy that is used for air conditioning fulfils other purposes as well. Disney Cruise Line use water that is generated via the air con to power onboard laundry services.
Water Treatment
Boats create thousands of gallons worth of waste water that requires treatment. However, cruise providers have spent large sums of money on creating effective water treatment facilities onboard their ships that capable of transforming waste water into water that is cleaner than some of the water that people drink. The water is then dumped into the ocean, as doing so does not result in pollution being generated.
Reducing Fuel Use
Fuel use is a major environmental issue faced by cruise operators. Keeping boats afloat requires a massive quantity of energy. Fortunately there has been a number of innovations that reduce the amount of fuel that is needed. Celebrity Cruises took the step of installing solar panels on some of their ships in order to provide power for the lighting. Disney Cruise Line keep their cooking oil and transport it to Castaway Cay, which is a private island that serves as a port for their ships, where they utilise it to power machinery. This saves approximately eight thousand gallons of fuel each year.
Protecting the Coastline
In addition to the cruise industry taking steps to reduce damage to the environment, some government authorities have also introduced legislation that ensures that cruises remain green when travelling through certain geographic regions. The US state of Alaska has stated that ships need to possess a permit in order to be able to cruise along its coastline. To obtain these permits, boats need to adhere to regulations regarding water and air pollution, the dumping of food waste and treated water and other issues that impact upon the environment. Cruising is becoming increasingly more popular as a way of exploring the planet. For this reason, the measures that are being introduced by companies that offer the chance for people to go on this type of holiday are more important than ever. They mean that it is now possible for individuals to go on journeys via boat without negatively impacting upon the world that we live in to a greater degree than taking other varieties of vacation. This is good news for students who do not wish to confine their travelling to the country that they are studying in. It means that they are free to travel all over the globe without worrying that they are wreaking havoc upon the environment by doing so and acting in an irresponsible manner.
Source: Iglu Cruise.
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Kobo set to debut Arc 7, 7HD, Arc 10HD competitive tablets on October 16th. Check Kobo Arc 7, 7HD, Arc 10HD specifications, models, price & other details.
Android tablets from Kobo and Amazon were successful a year back but as the purest experience of Android took over, thanks to Google Nexus tablets. One of the main reason by tablets by Kobo and Barnes & Noble didn't compel in the recent times is because they didn't include Google Play Store. Now then the Toronto based tablet PC maker is about to bounce back with flurry of tablets to offer.
Kobo has announced three new tablet PC set for release on October 16, 2013. Dubbed as Kobo Arc 7, 7HD and Arc 10HD these tablets are analogous to what Amazon has extended with Kindle Fire tablet, namely with Fire HD & Fire HD 8.9. Kobo recent launch will include advantage as they run on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS and they are certain to include Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of box.
Also Read - Kobo Arc Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update
Kobo Arc 7 is the smaller sibling and it does pack a good hardware features accordingly to its price. It's powered with MediaTek MTK 1.2 Ghz quad core processor with 1 GB RAM on top of 7-inch 1024 x 600 screen. It's priced competitive for $149.99 with 8 GB internal storage and other features found on any tablet.
Kobo Arc 7 HD
Kobo Arc 7 HD is the perfect competitor to Nexus 7 as it's powered with NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, 1 GB RAM on top of 1920 x 1200 pixels 7-inch display. The tablet adds 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera and 8 hours of estimated battery life. It will be priced at $199.99 for 16 GB model & $249.99 for 32 GB model.Kobo Arc 7 HD technical specs are -
- Display: 7" multi-touch IPS display
- Processor:1.5 GHz dual core processor
- Software: Android 4.0 ICS
- Camera: 1.3 MP primary camera
- Storage: 16, 32, and 64 GB models
- Battery: 10 hours of reading and 2 weeks of standby
- Features: Reading Life™, Kobo Pulse™, Facebook Timeline
Kobo Arc 10 HD is a high-end tablet as it's packed with highend features. On to top of 10 inch 2560 x 1600 pixels display screen it packs NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor paired up with 2 GB RAM. There is 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera and includes Bluetooth v4.0, Miracast video streaming and priced at impressive $399.99. So it's purely the competitor of Nexus 10 tablet with 10 hours of battery life.
Kobo Arc 10 HD technical specs are -
- Display: 10.1" 2560 x 1600 HD+ Display (300 ppi)
- Processor: Nvidia Tegra 4 Quad-Core, 1.8 GHz
- Software: Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS
- Camera: Front-facing 1.3 MP (720p) HD camera
- Storage: 16 GB
- Battery: 6550 mAh battery
- Features: Reading Life™, Kobo Pulse™, Facebook Timeline
Along with these product launches, Kobo still believes in eBook readers. They will launch Kobo Aura 6" E-Ink eReader with stunning edge-to-edge 212 dpi display screen.


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Just a little over two weeks ago, I released my 10th novel, Just One More Minute. It's a contemporary NA small town bakery romance, and it's my first ever written-to-market novel. By "written-to-market," I mean I intentionally wrote it using romance tropes, or themes, rather than letting my creativity run wild and using tropes by accident. For example, some of the tropes I wrote with were "enemies to lovers" and "second chance."
I also looked at bakery romances. They're fun and lighthearted; I was challenged by my therapist to write something on the lighter side back when I was in PTSD recovery. However, I am who I am, and needed to include my own flavor: gritty, steamy romances led by strong belles, focusing on social issues. I baked all of those things into Just One More Minute, but kept it lighthearted, which made it a lot of fun to write and a lot easier to market. It's also making me a lot more money than my most recent releases have—and more money is always a good thing, since that means I can pay my bills and write more books.
Since I'm trying to get better at comparing the state of my business before and after each book launch, I'd like to dive into what I learned from Just One More Minute. If you'd like to follow along, here are my pre-launch numbers.
The cover reveal I did on Instagram went really well! For some reason, I didn't note how many followers I had before the cover reveal 🙄, but I now have 375 followers on Instagram. I do know I gained quite a few with every piece of the cover I posted. Using relevant hashtags—like #bookstagram and #bibliophile, for example—really helped me reach a new audience. It also drew in some weird bot accounts. 😂
My followers really seemed to like the piece-by-piece reveal, and new-to-me readers thought it was cool, too. The beard piece got the most likes! 😍 Mind you, before I started this particular cover reveal, my average likes were maybe 10 per post. Now I'm averaging 20-50 likes per post; I've also been trying to post several times a week, to keep that momentum going. Even now that I'm technically unplugged, I'm still posting to Instagram—I'm just not checking notifications.
Well hello there, sexy bearded Matt. 😍 Rowan is one lucky lady. The JUST ONE MORE MINUTE cover reveal continues! Follow me to see a new piece every day, and click the link in my bio for a five-chapter preview. • • • A down-on-her-luck waitress inherits a bakery with the man who stole her dream job… and broke her heart. • • • JUST ONE MORE MINUTE available November 18th. • • • #writersofinstagram #author #mustread #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookstagram #books #indie #newadult #romance #contemporary #bookworm #amreading #teasertuesday #teaser #coverreveal #justonemoreminute
A note on the cover: A few days before release, I noticed that the title on the original design was really hard to see at thumbnail size. My designer couldn't fix it right away, so I launched with the original cover. However, I ran some ads the week after release—which are basically thumbnail-size covers in newsletters like Bookbub—and those ads failed epically. I suspect it was because the title was hard to read, and customers just passed it by while scrolling through their email.
However, sales from Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, etc are doing great, because their thumbnail size is a bit bigger. I've since redesigned the cover to make the title pop more.
I still love the original design—it's so glow-y and swoon-y—but the typography was just way too light. I ended up dusting off my dinosaur Gateway—which still has Photoshop CS4 on it—and cleaning it out—viruses galore!—to redo the cover from scratch. I couldn't find the fonts my designer used, and she was unavailable, so I had to make due. I think it came out okay. Not great, but okay. And now the title really stands out!
I was, however, successfully able to repeat the glowy overlay. It's not exact, but it's close. I did it with the gradient tool in multiple layers, with multiple colors at different opacities. I still don't love the new look, but I had to be done with it and move forward.
I just want to stress here that I noticed the thumbnail issue super late in the game and life threw some curveballs at my poor designer. Ordinarily the fix could've waited, but with ads running and the price about to go back up, I had to do something myself—nothing personal.
On the bright side, this got me out of design retirement! I've been working on some other cover redesigns that I can't wait to share. 😊
Getting back on track, during my piece-by-piece reveal, I collected email addresses to send a five-chapter preview to. The pre-order went live on October 31st with the final piece, and I emailed my list that preview.
I got 11 pre-orders on Amazon and 1 on iBooks; I don't know about the other retailers because they don't display pre-orders separately. It wasn't my best pre-order run (which was 36), but it also wasn't my worst (which was 0)! I suspect if I'd done a longer pre-order (I only did 18 days), it would've beat out my best (which was a three-month run).
I'm slightly nervous to share these numbers. I'm still relatively unknown even after five years, so try not to judge me too harshly. So far, Just One More Minute is my second best-selling book in its first month.
A note on pricing: Originally, when I did the $0.99 pre-order, my plan was to bring the price back up to $2.99 on release day. Mostly because I didn't have the budget to run ads for a sale. But thanks to my GoFundMe—which is really helping me get caught up on bills—I had a bit extra. I thought of that old parable.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you'll feed him for life.
I never thought I'd be quoting the bible to help me with my business, but it's true. I figured I could set aside $20-40 and run some ads with smaller newsletters (I so can't swing a Bookbub right now), which would help me make more money in the long run. I'm still an unknown author, and I have an autoimmune disease that is, quite frankly, kicking my ass and preventing me from working a normal job. So in this position, I have to be agile and smart. Which isn't always easy, because the brain fog struggle is real. Chronic illness jokes! 😂
Dark humor aside, I thought I'd use some bill money to try and make more money, and extended my $0.99 promo to two weeks after release. The ads didn't work out (see my cover notes above). Thankfully I only spent about $20 on ads. I ran them on Monday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving, so the proximity of the holiday could've had an effect on them, too.
Fortunately, the book is selling really well on its own on iBooks and Amazon. On Kobo, it's doing moderately well. And it's moving, albeit slowly, on the other retailers. Without further ado (and mind you, this is in its first two weeks, on sale, so please be gentle and don't judge me too harshly)…
A note on Nook: Oh Nook, why you gotta do me wrong… Unfortunately, something is glitched out on their end and I haven't been able to reliably get into my NookPress account for months. I've been in touch with support multiple times and the issue doesn't seem to be being resolved, which is a shame. Honestly, at this point, the second I can log in again, I'm yanking all my titles and re-publishing them through Draft2Digital, because this has sucked up a lot of time and caused me a lot of headache. Not to mention I've started my annual end-of-year inventory and can't touch a single title I've published through NookPress… 😱
I've since bumped the price up to $3.99. Now, originally I'd planned on making $2.99 my regular price. However, after doing a lot of thinking, talking with other indies on Kboards, and market research, I've determined that the majority of books in the NA category are priced $3.99 and above across all retailers. This is a bit of a test balloon, and I'm a little worried that it'll bring my good sales to a screeching halt, but I really need to start making money again so I can feed myself, my husband, and our overlord the cat. She's a tyrant, I tell you.
I did an early cover reveal for my email list and Facebook reader group a few days before posting the final piece on Instagram. I also sent my email list a five-chapter preview before anyone else got it. After that, I posted all five chapters on Wattpad in one shot, then scheduled weekly chapters to post to my blog. My goal here was to drive pre-orders. And obviously it worked—but I should've done a longer pre-order period.
Here are some Wattpad numbers…
This isn't quite what I'd hoped for, but my bar was set pretty high in the wake of the roaring success of Sandpaper Fidelity (which has over 75,000 reads and 2,100 votes to date). However, Wattpad is a fickle beast. For one, it's hard to gain traction on works that are only excerpts. Wattpad readers love full-length works. Also, Wattpad will only promote full-length works. Still, my bar on excerpts was pretty high too, since The Nanny with the Skull Tattoos has over 13,900 reads and 250 votes to date. I'm hoping that, given some time, JOMM will see similar success. That said, TNWTST is a force of nature on its own: it still moves on retailers (albeit much more slowly now, almost a year after release), people either really love it or really hate it, and it consistently draws in eyeballs. It's my breakout hit, my best-selling title. It's what put me on the part-time earnings map when it released ($500/month)—a place I'd really like to get back to!
I have to admit, I've really slacked on this. My intention was to post topic-related blogs—posts about depression, grief, etc—leading up to and for a short time after release, to draw in an audience. They're things I write about anyway. I also wanted to write more specific posts, like my experience as a culinary student at a tech school and how that influenced this book. But time, health, and life haven't been on my side, so this piece of my marketing plan got lost in the mix.
This is another area I failed miserably in. I contacted 11 book bloggers about an excerpt and ARC (if they wanted it), but I think I reached out too close to release. I also contacted 15 readers about ARCs. Some had won them during Facebook takeovers I did, and others won them from giveaways in one of my two reader groups (Barone's Belles and Romance Readers Anonymous). In the past, for TNWTST, I reached out to everyone I knew and asked if they wanted an ARC in exchange for a review; this time, I didn't have quite enough time. Only a handful of readers responded. So far, JOMM has four reviews on Amazon, with a 4.5 average rating. I'll be doing a major review push in December with incentives.
I screwed a few things up, unfortunately.
I should have kept in touch with the winners from various takeovers; months later, they probably didn't remember who the heck I was and simply deleted my email about their ARC.
I also dropped the ball and forgot to send the packet to one of the two bloggers who did sign up for my excerpt!
I'm extremely upset with myself. This is part of the reason why I'm taking a break from social media. I've just got way too much on my plate, and I'm forgetting important things. Brain fog aside, I think I'm simply overloaded.
Lesson learned.
Speaking of overload, my personal life has been a marathon of family emergencies: my sweet great-grandmother passed away, my great-aunt had a severe stroke, and then another family member had an emergency I can't discuss on the afternoon of my Facebook release party.
I'd dropped the ball on promoting the party—which is another thing I'm bummed about—and then canceled it last-minute in order to be there for my family. My readers, thankfully, were so understanding and sweet. That took off a lot of pressure. But I'd been looking forward to it! Admittedly, I had thought about canceling it, but decided to do it anyway. I always enjoy those parties, even though they can be a lot of work to organize and pull off. That reader interaction is so important to me, and fun! But my work wife J.C. Hannigan saved the day and threw a giveaway that evening while I was stress-cleaning my house waiting for news.
I know I absolutely made the right decision—I was essentially on standby and didn't want to end up having to leave midway through the party—but it's just another example of how even the most organized marketing plans can go off the rails.
For my next book, I'd like to A) give myself more time to execute things and B) come up with some backup plans in case of life being life-y. And dear dog, life likes to throw curveballs at me. At least I'm really good at bouncing back. 🙃
This time, I'll make sure I include my Instagram numbers. 😂
Not bad at all. I'd really like to get Facebook, Instagram, and Wattpad into the 1000s, but I can't complain considering I don't put a whole lot of effort into growing them. I'm a little concerned as to how Twitter, etc will fare while I'm unplugged, but I can't let that strong-arm me back into a social media frenzy.
I desperately need to get caught up on my production schedule and get inventory done for 2017 so that I can start the new year off strong (and finally get back into that part-time earnings bracket). I'll be writing up a whole other post on that very soon, because while I don't think many people read this blog, I think it's helpful information for other indies and I tend to see business-y things more clearly after explaining them to others. So it'll be extra helpful for me!
All told, I think this was a pretty successful launch. I'm curious to see how JOMM does with the new cover and $3.99 price point. I also need to play with keywords over on Amazon, now that it's been live for a couple weeks. (Speaking of pricing, I'll be raising all of my novels to $3.99. More on that in my upcoming "Preparing for 2017" post!)
I've been slowly working on formatting JOMM for print on demand. It's horribly tedious, since I'm doing it in Pages (which requires a lot of workarounds), but it's getting there.
Since this screenshot, I've added the alternating author and title headers. Those and page numbers I have to do by hand with text boxes, since the newer Pages is a hot mess and doesn't allow much customization for headers and footers. I haven't even started on widows, orphans, and all that craziness. But I did start, and it's going better than I expected. Just slow! It's also not my priority, so I don't have a paperback release date (yet). However, one of my goals for 2017 is to get all of my books back into print. I'm determined! I want to do signings and readings and festivals again.
All right, I think that's enough burbling.
If you've read all 2,700+ words of this, thanks for sticking with me! I hope it was helpful.
The first two books in the South of Forever series are on sale for $0.99 each for a limited time. Grab them now!
Set in Boston, the South of Forever series is a contemporary New Adult romance that follows Jett and her ragtag band of musicians as they build their band from the ground up.
Diving Into Him (Book 1)
Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll—that was Jett Costa's old life. After her wildly popular band falls apart, she's determined to remain sober and rebuild her career. There's just one problem. The only person who still has any faith in her is her ex-boyfriend Koty, and Jett isn't sure that she can keep her hands off him.
Maybe living together wasn't such a great idea after all.
She may have been sober when she made that decision, but she definitely wasn't when she agreed to play a show on behalf of a band that no longer exists at one of the biggest bars in Boston. Now she has less than three weeks to get her new band together. Can she ignore the sizzling sparks that fly between her and Koty every time they play?
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Savannah's Song (Book 2)
Ever since artist Savannah Santos started taking care of her boyfriend's daughter, she's had less time to paint. At first, it seemed as if Max and Chloe were the family she always wanted. But as Max grows more distant, Savannah starts to think encouraging him to join South of Forever was a huge mistake.
Especially when he's less than supportive of Savannah's burgeoning art career.
Something is definitely going on with Max. He's completely indifferent toward his daughter and Savannah, who is determined to find out the truth. When the secret she discovers is so much worse than anything she ever imagined, it tears her heart to pieces. Can Savannah rescue her family from destruction, or will she lose Max and Chloe forever?
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Nova Spivack, during his recent talk about the Semantic Web (covered in my previous post ), made the point that addition of semantic processing to the underlying index for a search engine, make the issue of trust more serious. This was an intriguing statement, and I followed up with him via email to get further clarification; he was kind enough to respond at length. The questions and answers from our exchange are given below.
1. For Semantic web to really take off, the information on the web at large
needs to become Semantic Web-compatible; i.e. web pages need to provide semantic information
in the form of RDF, OWL etc. Do you see this happening in the forseeable
future, given the huge mass of pages that already exist?
Or is it more likely that technology will have to solve this problem for us, and we'll need to invent algorithms that can interpret currently existing web pages to extract and apply semantic knowledge on top (such as ClearForest Gnosis )?
The DBpedia.org is a good start. Also check out the emerging SPARQL and GRDDL standards at W3C -- they will bring existing data into the RDF world. There is also growing body of RDF already out there in the Dublin Core, FOAF and other ontologies on content on the Web. More will be coming from many big companies, Adobe, Oracle, Yahoo, etc. And of course other startups like Metaweb and Radar Networks will be adding a lot of content to the mix in different ways as well.
2. In your talk, you mentioned Trust - e.g. you referred to Powerset,
wondering how they could add some sense of trust to the results they find
through semantic processing (NLP) of web pages, because otherwise it would not
be useful.
I'm not sure I understand.
They are mining full text of the web and automatically building a knowledge base from that. So when they see a web page that says "Microsoft is a terrorist organization" or "Microsoft is a software manufacturer" how do they know which statement is true or false? Who do they trust? How do they determine who to trust? This determines what facts or assertions get what level of weight in their knowledge base. It's the crux of the issue really. You can mine in a lot of assertions, but if you have no good way to filter out the garbage, spam, erroneous statements, or deliberate deception, you can't use it for anything real. One solution is to only mine highly trusted sources -- such as encyclopedias and major newspapers for example. That's not a bad way to start. That would generate a decent knowledge base.
But the DBpedia.org might be a better way to start than mining free text. They've already done the heavy lifting of turning the wikipedia into RDF. I'm not sure you need natural language to get good, reasonably trustworthy knowledge, just use the DBpedia.
In the case of Powerset I believe their goals are different than the DBpedia/Wikipedia -- I think they don't just want almanac content, they want specialized vertical knowledge about travel, products, etc. That will require that they either are very selective of their data sources, or they have a sensitive way to measure trust and rank information accordingly.
a] How does the addition of semantic processing to the underlying index make the issue of trust more serious? Google's PageRank is basically an approximation of the Wisdom of Crowds, using static links to represent votes; if Powerset uses some similar mechanism to rank the information sources in the underlying index, then their results should be no worse than Google's in terms of trust, and better than Google's in terms of relevance. [Incidentally, I've written about Powerset before when I attended their preview event.]
They could perhaps use a pagerank algorithm to attribute more trust to assertions they mine from various sites. That would be one solution. Unfortunately it gets more complex though -- because if their knowledge base has many grades of truth (statements ranked to varying degrees of trust) for a given assertion, then they will have to use modal logic or some other form of fuzzy reasoning to actually do any real reasoning or inferencing. That stuff is hard and uncharted territory to say the least. I don't think they will go there and if they did I think they would not be successful at it. So the question is what can they do without going there?
b] How will the Semantic Web improve the trust situation for web search results?
First there is the issue of being able to assign a trust rank to each triple. Trust is relative so in fact there may not be a single global measure of trust that applies equally to everyone. I may trust someone that you don't trust and so I may take what they say to have more weight than you would for example. There isn't room within every triple to store that, but triples could be ratified by other triples that express "endorsement" of their content. So if I agree with something I can simply express that and now it is recorded that I (in an authenticated manner) have said I trust it. If lots of people do that with various assertions (triples), records (objects), and sites and people (sources), then we have a network of trust built in RDF. A network of trust can be reasoned on to determine weighted, socially relative trust rankings for triples. It can determine what triples I am likely to trust versus what you are likely to trust versus what everyone is likely to trust.
Second there is the issue of being able to trust reasoning performed by the system. For that the system needs to be able to explain to a human how it reached some logical conclusion and what data it used to do so. Work is being done both on computer-generated explanations and ways to record and show provenance to address these issues.
Many thanks to Nova for his detailed answers. You can find his blog here: Minding the Planet .


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Lee Annie, daughter of Eli Mullis, wife of Corneli
Lee Annie Mullis was the daughter of Eli (one of the many Eli's) Mullis.She married
Cornelius (Neil) L. Lister.I don't have her DOB, but Neil Lister was born in SC in
1836 and moved to Pulaski (now Dodge) County Georgia after it was opened up to
settlers.Neil died by 1905.I don't have a DOD for Lee Annie.Neil moved to GA as
a child, so I supect Lee Annie Mullis was from the Pulaski / Dodge / Laurens County area.
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iPhone Database Storage Using SQLite3
iPhone Database Storage Using SQLite3
For simple iPhone applications, you can write the data you want to persist to a simple text file. For more structured data, you can use a property list. For large and complex data, it is more efficient to store them using a database. The iPhone comes with the SQLite3 database library, which you can use to store your data. With your data stored in a database, your application can populate a Table view or store a large amount of data in a structured manner.
Using SQLite3
To use a SQLite3 database in your application, you first need to add the libsqlite3.dylib library to your Xcode project. Use the following Try It Out to find out how. You will need to download the code files indicated for this and the rest of the Try It Out features in this chapter.
This project [Databases.zip] is available for download at Wrox.com.
Try It Out Preparing Your Project to Use SQLite3
1. Using Xcode, create a new View-based Application project and name it Databases.
2. Right-click the Frameworks folder in your project and choose Project ? Add to Project from the menu bar.
3. Navigate to /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator<version>.sdk/usr/lib and select the file named libsqlite3.dylib.
NOTE: <version> represents the version of the iPhone SDK you are using. For example, if the version you are using is 3.1, the path is /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator3.1.sdk/usr/lib.
4. When the Add dialog is displayed, deselect the Copy Items into Destination Group's Folder (If Needed) check box, and for the reference type, select Relative to Current SDK (see Figure 12-1).
Figure 12-1
5. In the DatabasesViewController.h file, declare a variable of type sqlite3 as well as a method named filePath (see the code in bold):
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "sqlite3.h"
@interface DatabasesViewController : UIViewController {
sqlite3 *db;
-(NSString *) filePath;
6. In the DatabasesViewController.m file, define the filePath method as shown in bold:
#import "DatabasesViewController.h"
@implementation DatabasesViewController
-(NSString *) filePath {
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(
NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDir = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
return [documentsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"database.sql"];
– (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
How It Works
To work with SQLite3, you need to link your application to a dynamic library called libsqlite3.dylib. The libsqlite3.dylib that you selected is an alias to the latest version of the SQLite3 library. On an actual iPhone device, the libsqlite3.dylib is located in the /usr/lib/ directory.
To use a SQLite database, you need to create an object of type sqlite3:
sqlite3 *db;
The filePath method returns the full path to the SQLite database that will be created in the Documents directory on your iPhone (within your application's sandbox):
-(NSString *) filePath {
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(
NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDir = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
return [documentsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"database.sql"];
Creating and Opening a Database
After the necessary library is added to the project, you can open a database for usage. You will use the various C functions included with SQLlite3 to create or open a database, as demonstrated in the following Try It Out.
Try It Out Opening a Database
1. Using the same project created previously, define the openDB method in the DatabasesViewController.m file:
#import "DatabasesViewController.h"
@implementation DatabasesViewController
-(NSString *) filePath {
-(void) openDB {
//—create database—
if (sqlite3_open([[self filePath] UTF8String], &db) != SQLITE_OK )
NSAssert(0, @"Database failed to open.");
– (void)viewDidLoad {
[self openDB];
[super viewDidLoad];
How It Works
The sqlite3_open() C function opens an SQLite database whose filename is specified as the first argument:
[[self filePath] UTF8String]
In this case, the filename of the database is specified as a C string using the UTF8String method of the NSString class because the sqlite3_open() C function does not understand an NSString object.
The second argument contains a handle to the sqlite3 object, which in this case is db.
If the database is available, it opens the database. If the specified database is not found, a new database is created. If the database is successfully opened, the function will return a value of 0 (represented using the SQLITE_OK constant).
The following list from http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/c_abort.html shows the result codes returned by the various SQLite functions:
#define SQLITE_OK 0 /* Successful result */
#define SQLITE_ERROR 1 /* SQL error or missing database */
#define SQLITE_INTERNAL 2 /* Internal logic error in SQLite */
#define SQLITE_PERM 3 /* Access permission denied */
#define SQLITE_ABORT 4 /* Callback routine requested an abort */
#define SQLITE_BUSY 5 /* The database file is locked */
#define SQLITE_LOCKED 6 /* A table in the database is locked */
#define SQLITE_NOMEM 7 /* A malloc() failed */
#define SQLITE_READONLY 8 /* Attempt to write a readonly database */
#define SQLITE_INTERRUPT 9 /* Operation terminated by sqlite3_interrupt()*/
#define SQLITE_IOERR 10 /* Some kind of disk I/O error occurred */
#define SQLITE_CORRUPT 11 /* The database disk image is malformed */
#define SQLITE_NOTFOUND 12 /* NOT USED. Table or record not found */
#define SQLITE_FULL 13 /* Insertion failed because database is full */
#define SQLITE_CANTOPEN 14 /* Unable to open the database file */
#define SQLITE_PROTOCOL 15 /* NOT USED. Database lock protocol error */
#define SQLITE_EMPTY 16 /* Database is empty */
#define SQLITE_SCHEMA 17 /* The database schema changed */
#define SQLITE_TOOBIG 18 /* String or BLOB exceeds size limit */
#define SQLITE_CONSTRAINT 19 /* Abort due to constraint violation */
#define SQLITE_MISMATCH 20 /* Data type mismatch */
#define SQLITE_MISUSE 21 /* Library used incorrectly */
#define SQLITE_NOLFS 22 /* Uses OS features not supported on host */
#define SQLITE_AUTH 23 /* Authorization denied */
#define SQLITE_FORMAT 24 /* Auxiliary database format error */
#define SQLITE_RANGE 25 /* 2nd parameter to sqlite3_bind out of range */
#define SQLITE_NOTADB 26 /* File opened that is not a database file */
#define SQLITE_ROW 100 /* sqlite3_step() has another row ready */
#define SQLITE_DONE 101 /* sqlite3_step() has finished executing */
Examining the Database Created
If the database is created successfully, it can be found in the Documents folder of your application's sandbox. As discussed in Chapter 13, you can locate the Documents folder of your application on the iPhone Simulator in the ~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/User/Applications/<App_ID>/Documents/ folder. Figure 12-2 shows the database.sql file.
Figure 12-2
This article is excerpted from chapter 12 "Database Storage Using SQLite3" of the book Beginning iPhone SDK Programming with Objective-C by Wei-Meng Lee (ISBN: 978-0-470-50097-2, Wrox, 2010, Copyright Wiley Publishing Inc.)
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can any 1 tell me about the iphone database best practices regarding selecting inserting deleting updating … ?
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Hey all,
we are starting a beta pilot programme for a platform that could help with this problem.
It's called Kumulos and it removes all the nitty-gritty, repetitive stuff associated with creating database driven apps for iPhone.
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MPs discuss Shabaab attack on KDF troops in Somalia
Thursday February 11 2016
The National Assembly on Wednesday evening discussed the January 15 attack on a Kenya Defence Forces camp in El-Adde, Somalia, in which an unknown number of soldiers were killed.
The discussion was, however, held in camera after Speaker Justin Muturi ruled that it was a matter of national security, applying a rarely used provision in the standing orders for a matter to be handled in a closed sitting.
Saku MP Colonel (Rtd) Ali Dido Rasso asked the Speaker to allow the House to sweep aside all business at 5.30pm to discuss the attack under provisions that allow the postponement of all business to discuss a matter of national importance.
Mr Muturi said Col Rasso had approached him before the sitting in the required manner and then ordered that the discussion take place at 5.30pm, at which time the galleries were cleared and the sitting was closed to the public and the press.
The attack in El-Adde was the biggest on a Kenyan military installation since the start of Operation Linda Nchi in October 2011.
An unknown number of soldiers and officers were killed when Al-Shabaab militants attacked the camp.
Chief of Defence Forces Samson Mwathethe gave the most detailed account of the attack yet five days later in which he said that the force of explosions at the camp was equivalent to three of the bombs used in the August 1998 attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi.
The Defence and Foreign Relations Committee has announced its intention to look into the matter and two meetings — also closed to the public — have been scheduled today.


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The question states:
Find the area of the region by double integration.
The region inside the circle but outside the circle .
I set up the problem with
However, the answer I got in the end was , I'm assuming it's because of the way I set it up rather than a calculation error since I did it several times. The correct answer according to the textbook is .
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.


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Buy Signal in Reversal Indicator Likely 2-3 Weeks Away
The S&P 500 has seen the market move lower now for the third time and four weeks. While this week is still relatively young that may not hold true by week's end, but nonetheless, we have definitely seen a pause in the aggressive buying that we had seen in weeks prior.
In fact right now the S&P 500 is in the red for the month... again the month is still young...but if that holds, it would be the first negative trading month of the year or the first one in eight months.
Right now, I don't necessarily believe that you should be pouring on the shorts in this market, instead, I believe that we should be tightening the stops and possibly limiting our long exposure at this point, while slowly adding some short exposure in minimal amounts.
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BOWLING: Lefty breaks 700 in Red River league
May 22, 2013 at 12:22 a.m.
Jamar Bryant ended this year's Red River League fall season with a bang.
The left-handed bowler bowled three games without an open on his way to the weekly honors with a big 716 series.
Bryant posted games of 233, 237 and 246 for his total and helped his team into a third place showing for the fourth quarter.
Competing in the same league, T.J. Mooney also broke the 700 mark with three clean games of 215, 224 and 266 for a 705 series.
Other great scores for the men were Dave Matthews (249-699), Justin Tweedle (255-698), Jon Parratt (246-698), Sterling Kocian (244-679), Mike Osterson (266-666), Jacob Silgero (665), Steve Zeplin (255-664), Glenn Mason (661), Victor Thomas (661), Jerry Cano (650) and Mike Wortham (256-247).
Christine Speer also ended this year's fall league play with a great series in Sugar & Spice League play.
She dialed up individual games of 226, 182 and a great set-ending 247 game to post a 655 series.
Lynda Mikulec, bowling in the same league, ended with a 234 individual high game and 612 set.
Another nice score was Trudy Wortham's 212-598.
With the fall season coming to an end for the majority of the leagues in one week, now is the time to think about staying competitive over the summer.
Century Lanes has summer league schedule flyers at the front desk. If you do not want to join a league during the summer, the No-Tap Jackpot Doubles is scheduled to start June 5. Sign up time is 6 p.m.
For more information, call Century Lanes at 361-576-1166.
The Woodlawn lanes will have a meeting for the start of the Wednesday Duo on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Woodlawn. The league is tentatively scheduled to start June 5.
Contact Robert Pfeil at 361-582-0921 for more information.
In memoriam
It is with sorrow that I make note of another area bowler having passed away.
Paul Salinas bowled for many years in area leagues and was a Victoria Men's Bowling Association director in the 1990s. He was also a league secretary of the Over The Hill League for several years.
An avid sportsman, Paul also played and managed softball teams in the area. As a softball manager and team captain for his bowling team, he loved to play what he felt were winning percentages.
His stories of past baseball games and league championships will be missed.
My condolence and sympathy go out to his family.
WILD TURKEY League Champions, CREEK RATS with members Nazz DeLaGarza, Gary McClain, Linda Cooper, and Dennis Lovell. Women: D. Kohl 489; Men: K. Blake 223-554; G. McClain 231-549; RED RIVER League Champions, RANDY' RAIDERS with members, Abel Garcia, Randy Vivero, Darren Blohm, Kenny Schupbach, Dandy Richards, Ramsey Martinez, Robert Gonzales, and John Figueroa. Men: J. Bryant 246-716; T.J. Mooney 266-705; D. Matthews 249-699; M. Osterson 266-666; G. Mason 234-661; V. Thomas 234-661; M. Wortham 247-641; M. Stacy 636; J. Tweedle 236-615; L. Caballero 234-603; S. Zeplin 601; D. Marques 601; J. Wittenburg 599; T. Pfuhl 591; K. Schupbach 588; T. Bennett 224-582; J. Guerra 571; L. Stroud 570; D. Richards 563; C. Hoff 559; A. Suarez 551; MONDAY MIXED League Champions, HANG THIS with members Korey Bryan, Scott Snow, Sterling Kocian, and Steve Dickinson. Women: C. Speer 210-573; P. Bellanger 547; N. Mergele 546; A. Lane 525; Men: S. Kocian 244-679; J. Silgero 237-665; H. Bellanger Jr. 629; D. Dye 242-617; R. Bassano 593; T. Wash 590; B. Mooney 245-589; S. Dickinson 579; J. Mayer 560; D. Padgett 557; B. Redding 553; M. Redding 552; SUGAR & SPICE League Champions, HERE 4 THE BEER Women: C. Speer 247-655; L. Mikulec 234-612; T. Wortham 212-598; C. Lee 213-565; B. Koebrick 212-560; O. Jackson 543; R. Wortham 220-537; B. Wittenburg 531; Men: J. Parratt 246-698; J. Tweedle 255-698; S. Zeplin 255-664; J. Cano 242-650; R. Gonzales 647; T.J. Mooney 236-645; M. Wortham 256-636; J. Silgero 224-624; T. Bennett 241-620; M. Rodriguez 246-618; M. Hernandez 612; M. Osterson 609; D. Richards 236-607; D. Flores 579; K. Stacy 234-579; L. Hall 577; C. Kurtz 576; J. wittenburg 233-575; P. Smith 573; A. Flores 231-568; M. Svatek 568; R. Fisseler 564; R. Vivero 233-562; B. Pontillo 560; R. King 232-556; H. Tesch 555; W. Kern 550; R. Estrada 224; CAPTAIN'S League Champions, GIRLFRIENDS with members Dottie Edison, Linda Burrows, JoAn Brown, Bobbie Mitscherling, and Roxan Salziger. Women: N. Wallace 508; M. Sweeney 495;


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12 Moments 11: #03
This entry is part of 12 Moments in Anime 2011.
#03 is TokyoPOP closing down at the end of May. Not a happy moment for me in 2011, but "a moment" nonetheless.
TokyoPOP published everything from Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon to Get Backers and Mobile Suit Gundam titles (including Gundam Wing) to Junjou Romantica (under their BLU Manga imprint). They moved manga from "a comic book thing" to "a book thing" by helping to create space on Borders (RIP) and Barnes & Noble shelves for manga and other comics.
I don't know much about the drama with Stu Levy (TokyoPOP's founder and CEO), but as a casual manga reader who was happy to see new manga on the shelves in bookstores, TokyoPOP's demise was a terrible loss for me.
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1. If Karan decided that he would only grow a stubble or cut his hair, which one would you rather have him do? There is no room for both.
Grow a stubble. i dont really care about the hair.. i like stubble on him cause i really like it on ASad's character.. it makes Asad's character rough and tough.. and i like that.
2. Would you rather have Ghafoor give up his topi to Razia give up her wig?
RAAZIA's WIG! i love Gaffu and his topi.
3. On a scale of 10-10, how big of a douche is Ayaan in your opinion?
Well I think aayan means well, he is just really emotional.. thats his flaw.. but he is a douche when it comes to outcastin Asad like the way he does. That really irritates me.. so 7/10?
4. When you have to type numbers, do you use the ones on the number pad or the ones on the top?
I use the row at the top
5. Pepsi or coke?
Neither. I dont drink soft drinks or juices. i only drink Water and fresh veggie juice cause im a health freak but occasionally when i do have it the RARE times i do then I prefer Pepsi
6. Are you a computer addict? i.e. Is your laptop generally warmer than your heart?
Actually no. My hearts warmer because Im RARELY on a laptop.. i usually come online from my phone cause im always on the go
7. This question is a Jazzy special. Thongs or boxers?
I still think its a bit personal but BOXERS.. and i wear boxers to sleep .. .. I dont even touch thongs.. i think its to s**tty. plus im a comfort freak and i feel CUTER believe it or not with boxers than thongs okay this question is WAYY weird im gonna stop talking now
8. Sweaty guys or burpy guys?
Sweaty guys i find burps and farts revulting .. its natural to humans but theres a bathroom for a reason sweat on men makes them sexy
9. Since you are freshly out of college, are you looking for money or are you looking for a job? Yes, theres a difference.
Neither. IM looking for a CAREER i chose my degree (Psych) knowing that its not going to get me some high paying executive job or something.. im not in it for the money or for time pass 9 to 5.. im in it for my happiness and the happiness of others who need help..
10. If you had to be locked in a jail cell with either Razia or Tannu, who would you choose?
Raazia. Tannu ek mamooli si khiladi hai... Raazia is the BIG SHABANG! Im sure she'd have PLENTY of stories to tel.. plus im a psych lover so id have a FIELD day with getting to know her and why she does what she does.. i wanna know the REAL Raazia
11. And last but not the least, who do you like more.. Asad or Ayaan? (pssst, the answer is always Vikram. NOBODY beats that hottie).
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Francis smiled as thousands of people rushed his car Monday after it became stuck in traffic when his driver made a wrong turn on a main avenue in the center of Rio. Other parts of the pope's route were not lined with fencing, giving the throngs more chances to get close, with uniformed police nowhere in sight to act as crowd control.
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Wow, the Xbox One is huge. I mean, I kind of already knew this based on the previous hands-on experience I've had with it, but a batch of images comparing the Xbox One to its rival, the PS4, shows just how big it actually is.
The Xbox One can eat the PS4.
Seriously, looking at these images (via PCGames), you can fit a PlayStation 4 inside of the Xbox One. It's that big.
The images show a number of angles and it's definitely bigger, in every way possible. It's wider, thicker, longer, you name it.
Or maybe the PlayStation 4 is just really small… Wait, nope; the images also include a comparison of the Xbox One and the Xbox 360, and the Xbox One is just really, really big.


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In what was billed as a "campaign kick-off" for a gubernatorial campaign that started over a year ago and has conducted numerous kick-offs since, a populist-sounding Zach Wamp visited the State Capitol today to address Middle Tennessee supporters.
U.S. Rep. Wamp, R-Tenn., told the crowd in a speech that will likely be part of a future campaign commercial that, "Tennessee needs to be like Warren Buffett and Volkswagen and invest when others retreat." He then said the state would have no choice but to lay off workers due the lagging economy.
In detailing his ambition, Wamp called for creating a defense industry corridor in Middle Tennessee and an agribusiness corridor in west Tennessee to complement the technology corridor that has been created in the eastern part of the state.
He also offered his support for early childhood education, teaching children with phonics, and he promised a healthier state if he is elected, saying he'd work to fight childhood obesity. In a rhetorical swoon, Wamp added that the best anti-depressant is sweat.
Calling "courageous" the members of the state legislature who were in the room, Wamp repeatedly referenced Speaker of the House Kent Williams. Williams, as you recall, has been barred by the Tennessee Republican Party from running for office as a Republican again. When asked whether he thought Williams should be able to campaign as a Republican, Wamp dodged the question, saying emphatically, "I think Kent Williams is a Republican."
Also in attendance were Wamp's wife Kim, daughter Cody, son Westin, and country singer John Rich.