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Stephen Curry has emerged himself as one of the most prolific superstars in the league and he is just a joy to watch, especially shooting the ball. Curry's shooting stroke is by far the best weapon in his arsenal, and he is now being courting as not just the best shooter in the NBA, but the best shooter in the league's history.
Pretty big statement to be made about a guy who is just in his fourth year in the NBA, but hey, nobody's arguing it. Curry is an outstanding shooter and his 272 made 3-pointers this season were good for the most in a single season. Pretty impressive.
That said, look for Curry to torch the San Antonio Spurs just like he did to the Denver Nuggets. The sharpshooting star point guard has scored 24.3 points per game and dished out 9.3 assists per game thus far in these 2013 NBA Playoffs. Curry has also hit nearly four 3-pointers a game this postseason, a statistic that really shows just how great of a shooter he is.
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Thats what you call a buzz-kill.
So much about this evening was special: The crowd, the halftime presentation of the new Hornets logos. The comeback ...
Well, almost comeback. Center Al Jefferson had two put-backs under the rim in the last 12 seconds. Both fell off. And the Bobcats lost at home to the Utah Jazz 88-85 on Saturday night, breaking a three-game winning streak.
Jefferson again tweaked his ankle late in this game. He wasnt using that as an excuse later, but it seemed apparent his lift wasnt quite right when he attempted those taps after Kemba Walker missed a drive.
Basketball Gods, Jefferson said. It didnt happen. (One) should have gone down.
So a good week fell short of great. The Bobcats are 13-15, having survived four games in five nights. They had two spectacular comebacks on the road in Toronto and Detroit, only to let this one slip from their grasp.
The Jazz (8-22) won this one at the 3-point line. They made 10 of 21, outscoring the Bobcats from the arc 30-6.
You get outscored by 24 in 3-point shooting, its going to be hard to win, coach Steve Clifford said.
Yet they had a real chance, making up a nine-point deficit to tie the game with three minutes left on a Jefferson dunk. Jefferson finished with 19 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks against the team he played for the past two seasons.
It was clear Jefferson had an edge against former teammates Enes Kanter and Derrick Favors. He turned it up in the fourth quarter, with seven points, six rebounds and two of those blocks.
Jefferson has been fighting ankle problems since the preseason. He appeared to get tangled up with Jazz guard Trey Burke just before the possession where he missed those two put-backs. It was clear as he walked to the Bobcats bench for a timeout something wasnt right.
He felt like he could go back in (but) he was limping a little bit, Clifford said.
Jefferson told Clifford just Friday, before the Pistons game, his ankle felt the best it has since the original injury in the preseason.
It could have been a lot worse, Jefferson said of his self-described little setback.
Its a little sore, but Ill get treatment Sunday.
Clifford gave his players the day off, despite them playing again Monday at home against the Milwaukee Bucks. They looked pretty wiped out after the busy week, but now they play one game in the next five days.
Overall it was a good week, Jefferson said. We could have gone 4-0, but we didnt.
This week had people thinking differently about this team, and not just because of the upcoming Hornets identity. Theyre in the thick of the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Clifford, without literally using the P word, made it clear there are stakes at hand: Were playing for something right now.
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This was a great company. The hiring was excellent and very fast. They took me to Hartford and it was a blast. The Interviews were not that bad. It was technical and behavior. There was 5 interviews with different people. They were very friendly and it was a good place to be. I highly recommend Travelers.Interview Questions
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Very long response time. It took from date applied online to the first contact via email which included 11 questions about a couple of wks. Then I heard nothing back. I rec'd a phone call and message left on my cell about a month later wanting to set up a phone interview. I returned the call and left 2 phone messages with no response. One month later I get an email from another person asking if I am still interested and sorry the ball was dropped.
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Last Monday we had the chance to meet up with Daniel Winter-Bates and Kristan Daswson of Bury Tomorrow. Marko, Monika and myself took the guys sightseeing and did an interview at different famous spots in Berlin.
At 9:30 AM, Monika and I arrived at the hostel. Dani was already awake and waiting for us, along with the band's TM, Jonny Burgan. After about 5 minutes, Dawson showed up, and we were ready to start our tour. We started out at East Side Gallery, located across the street from the hostel. Monika, our interviewer, is not the best guide for a sightseeing tour as she's not from Berlin, but my knowledge of the city is, I suppose, good enough. Anyway, we were off to a great start, taking pictures and talking about the Berlin Wall and the investors who want to tear down parts of it to build condos. Dawson was really impressed by the skyline and constantly taking pictures with his iPhone.
Our next stop was Goodies Café, where we met up with Marko and set up the lighting for the interview. It was a great location; really warm and cozy. Jonny wore his thick jacket the whole time, even though it was a a sunny 12 degrees celsius outside and almost 22 degrees celsius inside.The guys had breakfast (if cake can be considered a breakfast food), and we had a little on-camera talk about their numerous tattoos.As soon as the first part of the interview was completed, we were off to our next destination, the Brandenburger Gate.
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SoundCloud is a great resource for interesting audio tracks audio tracks. I found this playlist that I wanted to download. Although the author is allowing download of tracks, I've to download each track manually, which is a time-consuming task. I searched for any tool to help me download the whole playlist, but I didn't find any. So I did what a great programmer should do: I made it myself.
Please don't use it to steal other people's audio tracks.
Yahoo added me to different marketing newsletters without my permissions. When I unsubscribed they told me that it will take 10 business days to take effect! This is the 3rd time I do this!
Yahoo, I know you want to make more money, but please respect my choices!
It makes me sad when I find out that a lot of people use bad tools, so here is a list of tools that I use almost everyday (as of May 2013). Most of them are great & some of them are acceptable. Feel free to suggest better tools.
Your life is miserable without these
VLC Player
There are 2 types of people:
People who try to open a movie with Windows Media Player, but find that they cannot open any movie with it, so they download the XviD codec & install it. Later, they try to open a movie with extension RMVB, then they find that they want another codec which conflicts with the 1st codec, so they remove the 1st codec & install the 2nd, but not all movies requiring XviD works, so they ask a friend who tells them about the Combined Community Codec Pack which plays all kind of videos except Real Media & QuickTime, but if you install Real Alternative & QuickTime Lite to play RM & MOV videos. Now they just need to install DirectVobSub for subtitles & they are finished. This is just for Windows.
The 2nd type of people installed VLC player & lived happily ever after.
Everything search engine
So you want to search for files by their name or extension. You open Windows search & type the file name, then you wait, and wait, and wait, and ....
During this, I downloaded & installed Everything search engine, searched for the files I need, found them & already working on them.
Now, Windows just showed the results. Please remind me why I searched for these files?
Why install 48 MB slow application to view PDFs when you can install a 5MB lightning-fast application which can view PDF, MOBI & many different formats?
Google Chrome or FireFox
Which one you choose depends on you, but you should not use IE.
Swiss-army knife for raster image editing. What MS Paint is supposed to be.
Virtual CloneDrive
Free Virtual CD program without ads. You won't find a better one.
Free Download manager (FDM)
Free & easy to use download manager.
Did you see James Shore series Let's Play TDD & wondered how you are going to download all of these videos to see them offline? youtube-dl can download from youtube & tens of other sites as well.
FFmpeg is a media conversion tool. I've mixed feelings against it. It's very powerful & fast, but also very hard to use. Each time I've to google how I can use it, but it's performance makes it practical than other conversion tools I tried.
CCleaner & Defraggler
The best crap cleaner & disk defragmenter.
For command-line gurus
It's a shell container which groups all your shells in a single window with multiple tabs, including putty.
A smarter shell for Windows. I like that when you press TAB it shows all the available options, instead of cycling through all the options. It also supports persistent history.
For the Ninja programmer
I used different programming languages, but Python is the swiss-army knife that I use when I've the choice, and it didn't fail me. I used it for small scripts, GUI apps, to high-performance web apps.
Sublime text
I wanted a powerful text editor (like VI or Emacs) but didn't need me to relearn how to use a text editor. I used Notepad++ for a long time, before I switch to Sublime.
SQLite & Postgres
SQLite is convenient for development, because it doesn't require installation of any kind.
I had nice experience with Postgres when I built rawa7.com. Installing PostGIS (Postgres GIS extension) with other GeoDjango dependencies on Windows is painful, but after this it's a joy to use.
It also supports compression, recursive queries, Multiversion concurrency control, custom types, table inheritance, regular expressions & other interesting features. DB choice is probably the hardest thing to change in an enterprise, but Postgres is worth a try.
Today was the 2nd joint event by dotnetworks and EGJUG. There was 2 sessions: Oracle ADF a practical experience (which I didn't attend, unfortunately), and dynamic languages on .net, by yours truely :). There were very few people who attended, about 15 people. They were very active and participating, and I believe they liked the session. The main goal of the session was introducing Python (specially IronPython) to the people, differences and similarities to C# & Java, and what to apply lessons learnt from Python to these languages. This is the presentation (which is very simple, because most of the session was practical)
Also you will find the DreamPie session (with the sample files used in the session). DreamPie is an excellent Python shell, which can integrate with CPython, IronPython and Jython, also giving you correct AutoComplete. As a bonus, this is also an example of using BeautifulSoup - a Python library for parsing badly-formatted HTML - from C# 4.0. BeautifulSoupUser.zip, 11.csv.zip, 11 - Copy.csv.zip, Python-Session-2011-01-22.html
MIX conference is my favorite conference. It is always full of surprises, and it is not restricted to Microsoft technologies. It has been a habit for me to grab the links to MIX videos since MIX 07, and I'm keeping this habit for this year too :). Here is the source code to the Python program which grabs the links. It generates two files: mix09_links.txt which contain only the links so you can import them in your favorite text editor, and mix09_title.txt which contain the title of every session and its URL, so you know the title of the session.
from urllib import urlopen
import re
links_file = open('mix09_links.txt', 'w')
description_file = open('mix09_title.txt', 'w')
for i in range(16):
url = 'http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/page%s' % (i+1)
print url # for tracking
s = urlopen(url).read()
links = re.findall(r'
.*?
', s)
for link in links:
links_file.write('http://mschannel9.vo.msecnd.net/o9/mix/09/wmv-hq/%s.wmv\\n' % link[1].lower())
description_file.write('%s\\nhttp://mschannel9.vo.msecnd.net/o9/mix/09/wmv-hq/%s.wmv\\n\\n' % (link[0].lower(), link[1]))
and for the lazy person, here are the two files: mix09_title.txt, mix09_links.txt
A problem that we face everyday is creating CRUD interfaced for our databases. Creating a CRUD interface is always a boring and tedious job. Even if you want to initialize your data, you may break something by mistake if you use SQL Server Management Studio, because it doesn't know anything about your business rules. Django_ - A web framework for Python_ - gives you the solution. It has an application called "Django Admin" that provides a customizable, production-ready, nice-looking UI on top of your DB. If you want to see the final results, see the screenshots at the end of the post.
Setting the environment
- Install Python 2.5 or newer.
- Install Django 1.0 or newer.
- Download and install pyodbc. You should install the one that is compatible with your version of Python, e.g. if you installed Python 2.5, you should select pyodbc-2.0.58.win32-py2.5.exe.
- Checkout django-pyodbc from
http://django-pyodbc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ using a Subversion
client, then you should move the directory
Creating the Django project
A Django application is a complete component, including the DB model, views and templates. Good examples of Django application are user registration, tagging, search, etc. You can find a lot of reusable applications on http://www.djangopackages.com/. A Django project is a group of application that works together. Now you have the environment setup for Django. The next step is creating a new Django project. On the console, write this command
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\django-admin.py startproject sqlserveradmin
Then create an application using this command:
manage.py startapp mydb
To add the application to the project. You must change
settings.py to include the app.
Setting the database
Now you have the project in place. You need to modify
settings.py to
point to your DB. Change these fields to be
DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sql_server.pyodbc'
DATABASE_ODBC_DRIVER = 'SQL Native Client'
DATABASE_NAME = 'db_name'
DATABASE_USER = 'webapp'
DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'sikrit'
DATABASE_HOST = r'test_server\SQLEXPRESS'
Generating DB models
On the console, run the following command
manage.py inspectdb > inspected_models.py
This will generate Python models for your tables. Unfortunately, they are not arranged. To arrange them, use the script that I posted to http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1203/.
rearrange_models.py inspected_models.py models.py
Use the new models.py to replace the old one in the folder mydb.
Installing the admin
To install the admin, you need to add the following line to
INSTALLED_APPS in
settings.py. It should look like
then run this command to add the tables necessary for the admin to work.
manage.py syncdb
It will ask you to add a superuser. This superuser will allow you to access the admin.
You need to tell Django what models that you need to be viewed in the admin. For our case, we want to view all the tables. I will use a little bit of Python magic to add all the models to be viewed in the admin. Put the following code in a file called admin.py in your application folder.
from django.contrib import admin
from django.db.models import Model
import models # This is your models' module
for m in dir(models):
class_ = getattr(models, m, None)
if class_ and isinstance(class_, type) and issubclass(class_,Model):
Congratulations. We are done.
What you can do more
- Change the templates used to view the UI.
- Customize the names of the models and fields, for example you can supply correct pluralization.
- For enums, you can specify the available choices, and the admin will view it as a drop down.
- You can add more users to the admin, and specify their permissions.
- And a lot more. See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/
I hope this wets your appetite for learning Django.
The home page. I had to remove everything that reveals the application. As you can see, Django admin also stores a history of changes.
This is the view for students. I customized it a little bit to view students' emails, but you can customize it more.
This is the form to change the student. The "UserId" is a foreign key to the "Users" table. Django admin is smart enough to grab them for your. If you want to add a new user, you can add it by clicking the small "+" sign beside the drop down list.
This shows the screen for users in the "Auth" application (which is added by Django itself). This shows a more advanced listing: you can select the columns that will be displayed, with sorting. You can add filters (on the right), and you can add search also.
This is the form for editing users.
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Hitmen from out of town show up to investigate Hess' murder, while Molly has a few more questions for Lester in 'Fargo' episode 2: 'The Rooster Prince.'
'The Blacklist': Scrambling For A Foothold
Red helps the FBI track down a kidnapped scientist, while Elizabeth and Tom face each other in 'The Blacklist' season 1, episode 19: 'The Pavlovich Brothers.'
'Mad Men': Rearrangement Of A Rearrangement
Sally inadvertently finds out another one of Don's secrets, while divisions in SC&P extend beyond the two offices in 'Mad Men' season 7, episode 2: 'A Day's Work.'
'Game of Thrones': The Way Things Are
In the aftermath of the Purple Wedding, the world of 'Game of Thrones' gets even darker in season 4, episode 3: 'Breaker of Chains.'
'Hannibal': Whispering Through The Chrysalis
Will resumes his therapy with Dr. Lecter and joins him in the search for a serial killer in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 8: 'Su-zakana.'
'Arrow' Explores The Power Of Confrontation
Team Arrow goes on the offensive against Deathstroke, while Laurel ponders what to do now that she knows Oliver's secret in 'Arrow' season 2, episode 19: 'The Man Under the Hood.'
'The Americans': Does Nicer and Easier Make Better?
Elizabeth must deal with Lucia's refusal to let Larrick live, while Philip comes to grips with the ramifications of bad intel in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 8: 'New Car.'
'Fargo' Series Premiere Review
FX's 'Fargo' takes viewers back to the great white North for a little murder and a lot of mayhem with Martin Freeman and Billy Bob Thornton in the series premiere: 'The Crocodile's Dilemma.'
'Mad Men' Season 7 Premiere Review – In Search Of A Lasting Delight
Don is trying to make things work on two coasts, while Peggy, Joan, and Roger struggle to find what's evading them in the 'Mad Men' season 7 premiere: 'Time Zones.'
'Game of Thrones': The Purple Wedding Welcomes Its Guests (SPOILERS)
HBO cordially invites you to the nuptials of King Joffrey and his chosen bride Margaery Tyrell in 'Game of Thrones' season 4, episode 2: 'The Lion and the Rose.'
'Hannibal': It's All Part of His Design
Will and Miriam find themselves free at last, but their sudden liberation may all be part of the Chesapeake Ripper's design in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 7: 'Yakimono.'
'Elementary' Shows A Different Side To Sherlock
Holmes and Watson track down a man making anthrax in 'Elementary' season 2, episode 20: 'No Lack of Void.'
Martin Freeman Talks Accents and Quality Of Writing in FX's 'Fargo' Miniseries
Martin Freeman talks about the FX 'Fargo' miniseries, and what went into creating a unique character that was completely removed from the original 1996 movie.
'The Americans' Witness The Dawn Of The Internet
Philip calls upon Charles Duluth to gain access to new technology, while Nina must beat a polygraphy in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 7: 'Arpanet.'
'Justified' Season 5 Finale Review
Raylan works against the clock to bring down Darryl Crowe Jr., while Boyd deals with cartel assassins in the 'Justified' season 5 finale: 'Restitution.'
'Silicon Valley' Series Premiere Review
Mike Judge returns to television with a new comedy set to skewer the world of technology in the 'Silicon Valley' series premiere.
'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Premiere Review
HBO returns to Westeros, as the quest for the Iron Throne continues in the 'Game of Thrones' season 4 premiere: 'Two Swords.'
'Hannibal' Tries to Keep a Lid on Things
Jack begins to believe Will's suspicions about Dr. Lecter may be closer to the truth in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 6: 'Futamono.'
'Elementary' Deals With A Touch Of Residual Guilt
Holmes and Watson track down a killer who may exonerate a convicted man in 'Elementary' season 2, episode 19: 'The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville.'
'Arrow': Slade Runs A Real Tight Ship
Slade Wilson begins to destroy Oliver's life piece by piece in 'Arrow' season 2, episode 18: 'Deathstroke.'
'The Americans' Find Themselves in Compromising Positions
Working to track down Larrick, Elizabeth and Philip come up against too many expectations from their other lives in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 6: 'Behind the Red Door.'
'Justified': Might Be A Good Time To Get Out Of Harlan
Raylan enlists Boyd's help in tracking down Darryl Crowe Jr., but winds up playing a dangerous game with Kendal's future in 'Justified' season 5, episode 12: 'Starvation.'
'The Blacklist' Recommends Staying The Course
Liz and Red confront Tom's brother, while Ressler takes point in tracking down a mysterious killer in 'The Blacklist' season 1, episode 18: 'Milton Bobbit.'
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Rick and the other survivors finally arrive at Terminus. Find out if it is everything they hoped for, or another nightmare in 'The Walking Dead' season 4 finale: 'A'.
'Hannibal': Like Catnip For Killers
Crawford's team deals with a monumental loss, while Will meets his admirer in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 5: 'Mukozuke.'
'The Americans' and The Kenny Rogers Of Tel Aviv
Philip cares for one of his attackers, as Elizabeth has to deal with her husband's other wife in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 5: 'The Deal.'
'Arrow': Wear A Mask, Get A Bullet
The Huntress returns to Starling City, prompting Oliver to recognize his failures in 'Arrow' season 2, episode 17: 'Birds of Prey.'
'Justified': Time To Start Making Some Changes
Raylan contemplates crossing the line after an attack leaves a marshal in critical condition, while Boyd works a deal with Picker and Duffy in 'Justified' season 5, episode 11: 'The Toll.'
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While attempting to track down a mysterious computer hacker, Liz comes closer to discovering Tom's secret in 'The Blacklist' season 1, episode 17: 'Ivan.'
'The Walking Dead' Is Going To The End Of The Line
Glenn continues his search for Maggie, while Daryl learns the rules of his new group in 'The Walking Dead' season 4, episode 15: 'Us.'
'Hannibal': The One That Got Away
Will asks Beverly to look for clues against Hannibal, while Bella Crawford contemplates the end of her life in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 4: 'Takiawase.'
'The Americans' Are Living In A World Of Unseen People
Claudia returns to ask for help in tracking down Emmett and Leanne's killer in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 4: 'A Little Night Music.'
'Arrow': Old Enemies Or New Allies?
Amanda Waller recruits Diggle for a mission, while Oliver goes looking for Slade in 'Arrow' season 2, episode 16: 'Suicide Squad.'
'Justified': Golden Times For Dewey Crowe
Raylan and the Crowes are on the hunt for Dewey, while Boyd and Ava's relationship takes a turn in 'Justified' season 5, episode 10: 'Weight.'
'The Blacklist': Ressler Goes Rogue
Ressler is on the hunt for an old foe, while Tom and Jolene discuss the details of his secret in 'The Blacklist' season 1, episode 16: 'Mako Tanida.'
'The Walking Dead': Don't Play With Dead Things
Carol and Tyreese contemplate making a home with Lizzie, Mika, and Judith, in 'The Walking Dead' season 4, episode 14: 'The Grove'.
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Will is on trial for his life, but someone is willing to kill to keep a verdict from being reached in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 3: 'Hassun.'
'Banshee' Season 2 Finale Review
Hood and Carrie plan an all-out assault on Rabbit and his men, calling to mind memories from long ago in the 'Banshee' season 2 finale: 'Bullets and Tears.'
'Elementary': Misanthropy Was So Easy
Sherlock and Joan track down a scientist's killer, while Det. Bell prepares to celebrate his successful recovery in 'Elementary' season 2, episode 18: 'The Hound of the Cancer Cells.'
'The Americans': The Private Lives of Spies
Paige continues to look into her parents' oddly private lives, while Stan crosses a bridge in his relationship with Nina in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 3: 'The Walk in.'
'Justified' Presents Raylan With His Future Self
Raylan's vacation finds him in the company of a DEA agent whose tactics are more than a little familiar in 'Justified' season 5, episode 9: 'Wrong Roads.'
'True Detective' Season 1 Finale Review
Rust and Marty's detective work pays off, and they close in on the identity of their suspect in the 'True Detective' season 1 finale: 'Form and Void.'
'The Walking Dead' Finds Strength In Numbers
Maggie, Bob, and Sasha debate Terminus, while Daryl and Bet play house in 'The Walking Dead' season 4, episode 13: 'Alone.'
'Hannibal' Wears Only The Finest Person Suits
Hannibal helps track down a bizarre and artistic killer, while Will receives a visit from Dr. Du Maurier in 'Hannibal' season 2, episode 2: 'Sakizuki.'
'Banshee': Moving In For The Kill
Job goes off in search of Rabbit, pulling Hood and Carrie into his plan in 'Banshee' season 2, episode 9: 'Homecoming.'
'Elementary': A Mulligan For Lestrade
Sherlock and Watson take a decidedly different stance on helping Lestrade get back on his feet in 'Elementary' season 2, episode 17: 'Ears to You.'
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Elizabeth fears her kids will become a target, while Philip investigates the threat in 'The Americans' season 2, episode 2: 'Cardinal.'
'Arrow': Keeping An Eye On The Target
Slade Wilson spends an evening with the Queens and makes Oliver a solemn assurance in 'Arrow' season 2, episode 15: 'The Promise.'
'Justified': It's Never Too Late to Redefine Your Relationship
Raylan goes off in search of Kendal and finds out Wendy isn't who she claims to be in 'Justified' season 5, episode 8: 'Whistle Past the Graveyard.'
'The Blacklist': The Man in the Black Hat
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Crackling Hearts
Swoosh, whoosh a salty sea soars,
splish-splash colossal waves a roar.
Drip-drop, a leaky faucet spent,
trickle, streaming tears repent.
Pounding heart sore, you adore,
beating, loving pumps no more.
Thump of regret, of love in debt,
thrashing together you forget.
Fluttering beats on retreat,
sloshing a scent so very sweet.
Shattering bond, broken beyond,
a bellowing future now so fond.
Grimacing glares, hatred a flares,
spawning an odium of stares.
Soured smiles, trekking every mile,
whispering woes all the while.
Crackling hearts, burned apart,
smoldering pain from the start.
Hissing highs, kissing goodbye,
a burning love affair denied.
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TDDD37 Database Technology
Computer Labs
This part of the course contains computer labs that are implemented in MySQL on SUN machines.
Signing up for labsTo use a database you require a special database account. You receive this by registering for the course and signing up for the labs via the link in the menu. Sign up latest Nov 11.
Setting up your MYSQL environment for the labsPlease follow the steps to set up your MySQL environment.
LabsThe lab exercises are available from lab 1-2, lab3 - project, and also lab appendix.
- Lab 1: SQL (scheduled 2 lab sessions)
- Lab 2: Database design and ER modeling (scheduled 2 lab sessions)
- Lab 3: Normalization (scheduled 0 lab sessions - do at home)
- Lab 1: Differences between
SQL in the book and MySQL
- Lab 2: ER-diagram of Jonson Brothers (pdf,
Handing in the labsSee under Examination.
Other Information
- Tips for the labs.
- FAQ about the labs.
- MySQL documentation.
- In the labs you work with the Jonson Brothers database.
The relational schema for the database (ie. table definitions) is given here.
The data stored in the database (ie. rows in tables) is given here.
- The company database from the book Elmasri, Navathe. "Fundamentals of Database Systems", 5th Edition, figure 5.6 is available here. Note that all table names are prefixed with EN and that some table names have been abbreviated: EMPLOYEE => ENEMP; DEPARTMENT => ENDEPT; DEPT_LOCATIONS => ENDEPT_LOC; PROJECT => ENPROJ
Online material for each lab
- Lab 1: SQL—queries and views.
- For all labs, it is not allowed to use graphical interfaces to generate tables and queries. This is an SQL course and you must write the code in plain SQL. Graphical interfaces usually only provide a subset of SQL, so you will end up in trouble later on if you start using them.
- Differences between
SQL in the book and MySQL
- Lab 2: Database design and ER modelling.
- Ignore the following in section 2.5 in the lab
* No customer account must have a credit above $10,000. The reason is that check conditions are not supported by MySQL and triggers are not yet introduced.
- Always create InnoDB tables. To create a InnoDB table, you just have to add "engine=InnoDB" after the usual create table statement. That is,
CREATE TABLE customers (a INT, b CHAR (20)) ENGINE=InnoDB;
If you do not explicitly create your tables as InnoDB, they will be created as MyISAM by default and you may not be able to create foreign keys. To read more about the different storage engines in mysql, visit this page.
- If you have problem when you create table
If errors are not syntax errors , e.g. ERROR 1005: Can't create table './test/fkey_exmpl.frm' (errno: 150), there is a high possibility that the error is because your statement breaks a key constraint, entity integrity constraint or referential integrity constraint .
For other problems, this page could be useful.
- If you get error messages that are not about syntax, in most cases it is deserved to check whether your actions break a key constraint, entity integrity constraint or referential integrity constraint .
- Lab 4: BrianAir database.
- A simple solution would be to model
flights as an entity with attributes such as cities of departure and
arrival, day of the year and time of departure, etc. However, this is not
acceptable because this table may contain a lot of duplicated
information. Use two additional entities instead:
- Route, which contains all the routes the company flies. A route is characterized by the cities of departure and arrival.
- Weekly flights, which contains the schedule of flights for any week since BrianAir flies the same flights every week of the year. A weekly flight is characterized by a route, plus a day of the week, plus the time of departure.
- Mind the difference between booking or session number and ticket number.
- If the session A commits its update, the session B still get the old data. Try to commit in session B as well, or use
select ... for update;
- A tutorial for using transactions with InnoDB in mysql is available here. The document for lock and unlock tables is also useful.
According to the MySQL manual, when you use LOCK TABLES, you must lock all tables that you are going to use in your queries. Because LOCK TABLES will not lock views, if the operation that you are performing uses any views, you must also lock all of the base tables on which those views depend. While the locks obtained with a LOCK TABLES statement are in effect, you cannot access any tables that were not locked by the statement. Also, you cannot use a locked table multiple times in a single query. Use aliases instead, in which case you must obtain a lock for each alias separately. An example follows:
> mysql> lock table jbemployee write;
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> mysql> select * from jbemployee where id in (select id from jbemployee);
> ERROR 1100 (HY000): Table 'jbemployee' was not locked with LOCK TABLES
> mysql> lock table jbemployee write, jbemployee as e write;
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
> mysql> select * from jbemployee where id in (select id from jbemployee as e);
- Triggers do not work!
In the current version if MySQL installed on the server you do not have the privilege to create triggers. This means you cannot create and test your triggers (unless you run your own server). But you should still hand in your trigger code.
With the above information, you can produce the flights for any day of the year: You have to iterate through the days of the year and use weekly flights for the relevant information. Please, involve the three entities (routes, weekly flights, and flights) in your ER diagram to faithfully represent the airlineâs way of proceeding.
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Im putting out the feelers for a Northern Irish meet possibly based in Ballycastle on the North coast. Great location for ancient ruins , little fishing harbours Puffin colony on nearby Rathlin Island and loads of cosy little pubs.
If you could register your interest here then we can start thinking about dates accomadation etc. Open to all the EPZ family. Would love to hear from Scottish, Welsh and English based Photographers
Martin, I PM'D Chris so Im sure he will add to the thread in due course. Sorry about the Doolin meet Stephen told me the saga! Im sure he mentioned my shenanigans!! Also spoke to paulcr who is interested. Any ideas , points of view on dates locations feel free to thread.
Stephen , first class Doolin meet. Thanks a million for taxing us all over the place to some really cool locations also not forgetting the master class on grad filters!!
Ps who needs a cable release anyway!!! LOL
I would be interested in this... just depends on the dates.
Nice one Craig. No definate date but maybe leaning towards end of Aug or start of Sep though the Puffin colony on Rathlin will be in full swing July with the young starting to leave their holes. Watch the thread and maybe submit a date dates that suit
Quote: Ps who needs a cable release anyway!!! LOL
I do... I still might go back and look for it..
Who needs a big le.....
no, I won't...
Cheers Colin, seriously it was a lovely weekend in great company and hopefully the Northern meet will be as good quality wise and better quanitiy wise, so fair play to you
I haven't even spoke to the missus yet but mid to late August would be best for us as I'm planning a trip to see my dad in NI around this time. but nothing is booked yet :/
I have bookmarked this thread so will keep a close eye on it.
Great stuff Ted. Keep watching the thread. You can PM other N.Irish members who you have contact with and feel free to post ideas on locations personal interests etc...
Hi Colin,
I would also be be up for a meet depending on displays etc. I will bookmark this thread.
Nice one Mike. Feel free to thread any suggestions re locations etc. Does this mean you will be trying to get us all frefalling tandem from God knows what silly height with just a sheet of silk stopping us from certain death?? LOL
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text: 'Star Wars' Sequel Starts Shooting in Abu Dhabi, Home of Worker Abuses Print article Send a Tip by Christian Toto 21 May 2014 post a comment Shooting on the seventh film in the Star Wars saga started this week, but the production isn't turning to Tunisia to approximate the main character's roots. Star Wars creator George Lucas used Tunisia to represent Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine starting back in 1977. The new production is using Abu Dhabi as its Tatooine stand-in. Abrams and cast -- which includes Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisherwith new additions Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson,Max von Sydow and Daisy Ridley -- flew to Abu Dhabi in early May, with the support of the Abu Dhabi Film Commission and twofour54 intaj. Hundreds of local and international cast and crew are currently working on the production in Abu Dhabi with key production staff working closely with twofour54 intaj since January. Abu Dhabi is a curious choice given the country's recent worker abuse woes. Just last week The New York Times reported on horrific working conditions for employees at New York University's new Abu Dhabi campus. Abu Dhabi's migrant workers also face dehumanizing treatment, according to a 2013 article in The Guardian.


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November 18th, 2013 | Comic | Posted by Oriana Pawlyk
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Love the strip, but that's an oldie.
Yeah, Luke! C-3PO at least volunteered to donate parts to R2-D2 after that battle! Would you have done the same?
I love this. @ Anon It's an oldie but the art has been updated.


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The once highly-regarded British public university is not quite dead but it is in terminal care. After half a century of global success on public funding that amounted to less than 1.5% of Britain's GDP, in the space of two years we've seen the partial withdrawal of the state from the sector, and it is expected that this is a precursor to full withdrawal followed by extensive privatisation.
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It is upon us at last, the end. Of course we wish it were not so, we wish it were not an illness that was the final nail in the coffin for Pau Gasol, sickness being the one opponent he could not find a way around. But it is. So here we are. It's natural to look back, there's inordinate value to six years in one place and championship rings and forgettable moments and sorrow too. Pau Gasol the humanitarian was a gift from the heavens when it all started and when it ended he was nauseous and gripped by a dizzy brain. It was a cruel irony. Only the end is like this, in a whisper. For Pau it was the last Lakers home game of the season, Fan Appreciation Night. Only Pau Gasol was a spectator, a blurry image, an imaginary vision. No longer would he be asked to rise to the occasion. No longer would he be asked to block out and rebound. Or to get to the rim and score. He was on the periphery, on the edge, the same as a ghost. He would not play, not in this game, not for the rest of the season. He had been medically ruled out because of his ongoing battle with vertigo. And the Lakers lost by double digits. Again.
This last turn of events, though unfortunate, is befitting Pau's career here, the light and dark of it, the pain and glory, the sickness (vertigo, bad feet, bad knees) and the health. Playing for the Lakers was like an arranged marriage. Pau gave what he could. He was embraced and then he was reviled and then he was traded and then he was not traded. He continued to be subjected to endless rumors while charged with the unrealistic expectation to put it all aside and just play.
But no one wants to remember the eighteen rebounds against the Celtics in 2010. No one wants to remember the tip in shot against the Thunder in 2010. No one wants to remember just how special he was in his first game as a Laker: 24 points 12 rebounds. We remember the middle, we remember the bad and the ugly because we are not rational beings all of the time. Now it is just the conclusion we will remember, how it ended. It was the final paradox in so many that was his Lakers career. Pau was denied his last curtain call, his last farewell. There is always a hello. But for athletes the goodbye is not always the stuff of dreams. Pau could not show his appreciation the way all athletes want to do by playing their hearts out for the fans who stuck by them through thick and then. Yes, there were many Pau lovers. There were many Pau apologists. There were many Pau defenders. There were very few Pau worshippers. Still he was the last person off the court, he was signing autographs until he couldn't anymore.
As a basketball player Pau used to be different and all that means is he was younger. He doesn't defend much at all anymore, his rebounding is in spurts, his disinterest level this year has more to do with Mike D'antoni than with Pau and that is a problem too. In this war he let D'antoni win because he let D'antoni get inside his head and affect his game. Of all the things Pau has on his resume, skilled seven footer, pure in the post, balletic footwork, Olympian, he was never a savior, never someone who could put a team on his back and carry them throughout an entire season. Tim Grover, the trainer for Michael Jordan and Dwayne Wade and Kobe Bryant, talks about "craving the results." That was not Pau. He played basketball at a very high level. And that was that.
Some thought this would be Pau's moment, this year. Without Kobe, Pau would finally be free of his verbal oppressor. He would be able to thrive and create an on court sales job for players who just weren't that good, not in the way of playoff contenders. But Pau lay back like a windsurfer measuring the coming wave. He gave a little but he did not give everything.
There are a lot of professional athletes that engender distrust and dislike and even hatred. They are arrogant or they are prejudiced or they lack humility. They don't see the privilege of where they are in the world or the beauty. Soon they will leave this manufactured world behind. But Pau was always that kid in school who befriended the outcasts. He was genuine in his sincerity. He was kind and generous even when he was on the court. It wasn't always the case that you could trust Pau and when you didn't it made you feel worse, like turning your back on a begging child. He was an elegant human being but a passive ballplayer, an unselfish one but sometimes a frustrating one.
The mood is resigned; this may be Pau's last moment in a Lakers locker room, his last moment at Staples Center when he is not a visitor. It's hard to give him up, to say goodbye even as Pau may walk through the door next year wearing the uniform of the Knicks or the Grizzlies or the Suns. He may have to put all that happened here behind him. And yet all that happened to him was as blinding as it was special. He was great on the stage when the stage and the history and the timing converged into layers. He went to the NBA Finals three years in a row. He was an All-Star and he wore the Lakers name with pride. Being a Laker meant something to Pau; it did. Of course everything ends. The prelude to his exit has been building for quite some time. He was supposed to come here to win and then he was supposed to be gone. The end.
If he is gone it will be sad. Just as it was sad when Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett were no longer in Boston and in different uniforms on opening night. It almost made your eyes hurt. It did not look right until you became used to it. Blame history. It is what it is. The championship banners Pau created hang untouched on the wall. Not long from now so will Pau's jersey. The resignation will be gone by then, the fatigue will be gone, then it will be what he was denied on a Sunday night in April, a standing ovation, a we-love-you-Pau cheer, something more than his face on the jumbotron.
Of course it is just like Pau to do more than Kobe Bryant is willing to do. Pau is actually going to travel with the team these last two games on the road but even that is indicative of what Pau's tenure here has been about, this perfect human being always in the background, always underappreciated, never quite embraced the way he should have been but part of the team one last time. Simply, he is one of the good guys in the world, a person of substance. His basketball story can never preempt the rest of it. So much of the world is based on men who do nothing instead of men who do everything. That is the upside to Pau Gasol and even though he is not a crusade he should be: how to be a better human being. He is more than when he came here. These last six years have been a redemptive tour because it did not end well in Memphis. But he became a champion. What else matters?
After Kobe backed out of his appearance, Pau Gasol could have spoken to the fans one last time. Instead it was Nick Young. Kobe and Pau, absent all season, effectively sent their message to D'antoni and Lakers management. Even when they didn't play their part, they did. Of course, it changes nothing. Pau is excited to enter free agency and to have a choice about where his career is heading next. Perhaps the Lakers are just as excited to close the chapter on the Pau Gasol years, to start from scratch. But even so, Pau gone or Pau back, there is no getting around what happened here, no minimizing it. Pau came as a surprise gift one February day and everything changed. For Pau Gasol, for Kobe Bryant, for the Buss family, for everyone.


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2004 Panoplie in Forbes Life
We were thrilled to have the 2004 Panoplie featured in the 4/23/07 issue of Forbes Life ("California state of the art"). Richard Nalley calls it "a new peak—a sumptuous, palate-caressing red with an arrestingly clear purity of fruit." You can read other reviews of the 2004 Panoplie below, or read recent press on Tablas Creek.
The Panoplie is made available each year exclusively Tablas Creek Vineyard's VINsider club members. We have more information on the VINsider wine club.
In exceptional vintages, Tablas Creek Vineyard produces small quantities of Panoplie: a Mourvèdre-based cuvée from meticulously selected grapes, made in the model of Château de Beaucastel's Hommage á Jacques Perrin. In 2004, only 280 cases were produced.
The 2004 vintage was excellent, with a very early spring balanced by a long, warm (but rarely hot) summer. The extended ripening cycle gave the grapes intense aromatics, pronounced minerality, good acids, and good structure. Our first lots of Syrah came in on September 3rd, followed by Grenache on September 17th. An early onset of the fall rains on October 14th stopped harvest for a short time, but two weeks of sunny, cool, and breezy temperatures allowed us to harvest most of the rest of the Mourvèdre between October 23rd and 25th. A final lot of Mourvèdre, harvested on November 18th (our latest harvest ever) completed the 2004 vintage.
The grapes for our Panoplie were grown on our 120-acre certified organic estate vineyard.
The grapes were fermented using native yeasts in open and closed stainless steel fermenters. After pressing, the wines were moved into barrel, blended, and aged in large-format French oak demi-muids before being bottled in July, 2006.
The Tablas Creek Vineyard Panoplie 2004 is a barrel selection of the most intense lots of Mourvèdre, Grenache, and Syrah, all estate-grown varietals propagated from budwood cuttings from the Château de Beaucastel estate.
The 2004 Panoplie is a dense purple-red in color. It has a rich plum nose, ripe and sweet with coffee and eucalyptus notes. The complex palate shows full flavors of red and black fruit, pepper, and roasted meat. It is concentrated, dense and elegant with a wonderfully long licorice and spice finish.
Updated tasting notes from a December 2012 vertical tasting can be found on the Tablas Creek blog.
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We were thrilled to receive such good reviews from this notoriously tough grader, including the 2012 Esprit de Tablas Blanc (92 points; "impeccably refined"), 2011 Panoplie (94 points; "pure elegance"), 2012 Patelin de Tablas (90 points; "a gorgeous wine and a fabulous value"), and the 2012 Esprit de Tablas (93-95 points; "a fascinating Esprit to follow over the coming years"). Read the complete review » More recent press »
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This True Grit-style tale is narrated by the excellent heroine Jaines Cord. Jaines is a pitch-perfect lead character; her voice brings the fantasy/revenge tale to life and fills it with urgency. The narration also serves to elucidate the complex land's magical creatures and social rules, using details that would ordinarily weigh down a novel's readability. Lucky for readers, Shona Husk has crafted an extraordinary tale. The mysteries and reveals are totally unexpected, well timed and serve to further the story. No gratuitous shocks or storylines here! Husk takes her time with the romance, ensuring that the relationship between Jaines and Obsidian is never forced. A western with a magical bent, Dark Vow's aim is true.
Jaines Cord serves as her husband's apprentice gunsmith, and he's warned her never to serve a member of the magical Arcane Union — especially not a Bounty Hunter. But when a Bounty Hunter instructs her to service his weapon, Jaines complies. Afterwards, the weapon is turned on her husband and Jaines swears revenge for his murder. Setting out to track and kill the Bounty Hunter, she enlists the help of Obsidian, a rogue member of the Arcane Union. As the two hunt her husband's murderer, it becomes clear that the deceased had dark secrets of his own. Betrayed and confused, Jaines finds comfort in her gruff and magical traveling companion ... but Obsidian has a hidden past as well — one that threatens their journey and their future. (CARINA PRESS, November 2011, dl., $4.99)
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