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How New York's MTA Uses Drupal Caching to Get Riders There on Time [March 6, 2013]
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The New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently announced the availability of Real Time Data Feeds for developers. Let Blink Reaction explain how this custom API portal was built on Drupal 7 to provide critical up-to-the-minute travel information for millions of New York's daily commuters and visitors.
This Drupal-based site enables developers to create an account and obtain an
API key for specific feeds created by the MTA. Developers are able to use
the real-time data on their website or mobile application to inform riders
about scheduling and service notices.
In this webinar, you will learn the techniques and best practices used to bring
about Enterprise Drupal success including:
• Caching with Varnish 3
• Edge Side Includes
• Proxies and Mobile Load Testing
• Project Management Tools and Tips
Moderator: Today's webinar is how New York's MTA uses Drupal caching to get riders there on time. Our speakers today are Ray Saltini, the Drupal evangelist from Blink Reaction and Evgeniy Kashchenko, who's a project manager of Blink Reaction. We're really excited to have them on the call today and we hope you enjoy their presentation.
Ray Saltini: Great. I'd like to thank you all for coming today. We're going to get started. I want you to know that we're going to tell you briefly who we are at Blink and what we do. I'm going to talk a little bit more than we specifically do at these sort of presentations about the significance and contents of this project. Then let's jump right into it and do an overview. From the important PM considerations, we'll talk about the technology needs and how that fit into architecture and implementation of the project, and of course, we'll give you a couple of different resources. First of all, Blink Reaction is privileged to be providing services for some Fortune 500 organizations and large government non-for-profits. We're particularly proud of our efforts to train in the Drupal stage. We see that really is our biggest contribution to the Drupal community that started to help level the playing field and also advanced innovation and integration with Drupal. We are active in the community; enjoy our support of it and hope to see you all, one way or another, at an upcoming event. So first and foremost, let's talk a little bit about - where did we go about the Ocean Railway, as we talked about it. We had an opportunity to work on a transportation project in New York City. Obviously, the technology component, as opposed to the bricks and mortar infrastructure of it, but the transportation is a critical issue in the cities, in the US in particular. One of the things that we were just very aware of is how important this was to the MTA. If you're a student of New York, you can understand that the health of the city - the transit system is often used as a barometer of the health of the city. So we took this project very seriously. Back in the day where that analogy was made for packet service, there are a whole lot of ships and boats on Long Island. The first efforts at transportation solutions are on the ground or above the ground - as the case may be - solutions were just being dreamt of. The subway - planning it out and developing it is not unlike the process that many of us go through when we plan and build interactive web applications. Once the prototypes got a little bit more reasonable, we both understood that they would actually start having to build underground. Of course, remnants of the above ground systems still exist all over the place in the boroughs. You can see just from these old shots, just what a tremendous major initiative it was in New York City - for nearly 100 years at building and maintaining the system. Eventually, they got three different companies to service their link. So, we took this challenge very seriously because it was part of an effort to really create a solution around the inevitable problem of delays and service interruptions and the like of which you can see that this old cartoon demonstrates, that the MTA as well as other urban locations throughout the globe have dealt with for a long time. It really was an attempt to bring us back to the future. So, this was a problem in the service which first opened a challenge to inform riders. We have a lot of folks looking over the platform. That was the highest technological solution at the time. Things weren't much different in the '70's, then they got a little bit weirder and in the '80's, they got downright scary. Now, in the '90's and the new millennium, we can see that as much as things change, things often remain the same. So it's this historical sense of gravitas that everyone, from a large project staff, went into working on this project, dealing with legacy systems, analog systems, but really trying to service these incredibly large numbers of commuters. We joked amongst ourselves when we were doing this presentation that the MTA, in fact, does keep track of passengers entering the subway system, but they don't necessarily keep track of passengers exiting the system. Beyond that joke, this was a huge undertaking for the MTA to plan for a number of years, and despite the one step further and one step backward implemented scheduling of service, they have made tremendous progress. What they wanted to do with this project is bring that out of the tunnels, off the platforms and into the hands of people that could distribute this information. So, as the MTA upgraded their infrastructure, they've been able to pass this information along but also a faith in the tremendous challenge of it. It's at this point that I want to introduce Evgeniy Kashchenko, a project manager - enterprise project manager for Blink Reaction who helped managed a team of talented developers and committed stakeholders.
Evgeniy Kashchenko: So, MTA was already transitioning to Drupal and, therefore, continuing to build and Drupal made sense, and data mining the website was built using Drupal 7 and it's installed on Acquia's cloud. So, we worked in tight coordination with many groups here. Of course, MTA provided the requirements. They also provided the overall look and feel and branding standards for the site, as well as the most important key thing, which is the train's data. From our side at Blink, we managed the project, did a lot of custom development, triple configuration, configured cache, and created a separate mobile app to demonstrate how the feed can be used. So we partnered with Acquia on this and the Acquia team worked on project management, as well on clients communication, configured the technology stack including Varnish and provided a lot of types of services through their partner. So, let me show you the screen of the website. Here it is. It's taken from the data mine that was provided. So, the goal was, again, to make of it after a second information about MTA services to millions of New Yorkers and visitors. This Drupal website allows developers to create an account and obtain an API key to access those feeds created by MTA so that they can build apps to inform riders and others about scheduling and service notices. So, this site is integrated into MTA's portal and builders of its integral part. They started to announce the launch of this platform and given the access to their data started in full and it put a lot of pressure and stress specifics to meet the deadline.
Let's jump to the next slide. This is how the dashboard looks for a developer who already registered. Basically, all you need is your MTA key, which is shown on the right. This is the key that allows you to get the data from API's. So it's straightforward. To register, you can do it yourself just by going to the MTA's info website and providing information about yourself. Right now, it's a pilot with a couple of trains' data, but they are looking to add more in the future as they become available because a lot of infrastructure changes to switch from analog tracking to digital needs to happen so that this data can be gathered and then presented to everybody.
So, let's talk about projects management a bit. As a key to successful project delivery is communication and track of coordination with everybody who's involved. One of the tools that helps to achieve it is the RASCI chart that is presented in the screen right now that basically allows you to outline the main responsibilities and activities on the project and assign those to specific individuals. Besides, you would probably want to create a communication plan in defining cadence participants in the format of the different meetings, calls and reports, which in our case was the weekly status reports that were combined with calls and screen sharing for demo purposes. Of course, you would be willing to be on top of your dependences and risks to make sure that they are mitigated in time. So, this project was in a very aggressive schedule for three months, including discovery, and we added more resources to make an update and also caught in some review time, but we know that basically, at the end of last year, Hurricane Sandy interrupted and, basically, drove the plans. So that's why MTA had a lot of work to do with their infrastructure and the actual launch was delayed. So, iterations that we went through were discovery, which included specs, information architecture and designs. Then there were three sprints of development with demos and reviews and two separate launches because we were launching two apps - the portal itself and the demo app. Now, let's talk about the solution itself.
So as I mentioned before, it's Drupal 7 with heavy use of Varnish and other types of caching, widely used contributed modules, five custom modules for theme, for ESI, for flush of the cache and for messaging, and as everybody can register to the website, it's made opened so that you can access the data field at once and only if you're abusing the service, then your account will be deactivated. Another part of this which is a real-time feed that is provided in the format of GTFS binary file, and then some static feeds are also provided as a separate service. So if you don't know much about ESI includes its technology that strives to resolve the problem of web infrastructure scaling and bring more awe to the edge. You can look up more on these types of caching. So, in our case, Varnish was used to basically cache the data and, again, this is the page that shows you it's documentation that it can be accessed online at Varnish cache docs. So let me show you the architecture of the app. So how it works is the developer comes to the website, registers using the web form, then the data is stored in Drupal and access key is generated. Then the developer can access API using this key. This API is proxied by Varnish for scaling purposes, because Varnish helps us to get the reply to user tester if we know who the user is and if data is still valid. So, as this is real time application, the lifetime of a cache for the data itself is just 30 seconds which is displayed in here. The other part, which is also cache and Varnish is your API key validness. That is a longer period. So how it works: first, request is sent to a standalone file in the dark route, which is this wrapper. It checks the API key in Drupal if it's valid or not. Then if it's valid, it's stored in Memcache. Then the data is provided to via Edge Side Includes. Basically, what it is is just like a tag in the reply that is then polished by Varnish and the appropriate file is entered into the database instead of your tag. One of the key performance indicated for the project was load and sustaining load. So in this case, as I mentioned before, Acquia partnered with SOASTA, which is distributed to our testing provider that can hammer your service from around the globe. What we were able to prove with this load testing is that our solution is handling five thousand users per second concurrently with the architecture that was built in place. That's about it about the portal. Now, I will transfer the presenter to Ray and he can talk about the demo application that shows you how you can actually use this data and get some real results for that's worth and can be used to actually know if the train is on time.
Ray Saltini: Then getting actual - if you don't mind, let's just keep it on your screen and I'll speak to that. It might just be more expedient since I'm going to be…
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Yes, absolutely!
Ray Saltini: Thank you. Good. Great! We have these two ends of this project. Obviously, the caching of the rights and credentials of the data, but what we were also asked to do is put together a very quick demonstration of how developers could access feeds from the MTA and, in particular, these real-time feeds. Typically, what the development community that the MTA has been supporting for quite some time now if there's some increase transparency and other feeds that would develop a native phone application if you will. In this case, the business requirement from the MTA was to actually develop something in Drupal. That actually posed some challenges in particular, because some of the transit feed specifications did not have a native PHP parser. Effectively, at this stage of the project involved setting up a completely standalone Drupal 7 site and is a terrific demonstration of how Drupal can be used as a platform to serve a mobile application. We developed a response as a theme specifically for the iPhone, a mobile web theme and used fairly typical modules in Drupal's contributed modules section to accomplish this. What was not easy about the project, of course, was this getting around the fact that there didn't exist a partner for the transit files used by the transit associates of the MTA. So we were able to actually tap and customize a library that contributed for this that's available on get hub. We actually had to rewrite parts of it because the stack that we were on - we built up - in one version of PHP and the library file, the general transit spec library parser for it, we built around a different version of PHP. So, what you have on your right is an actual copy of the general transit feed spec that's used to convey this information. The real-time data is actually a binary file, but the static feed is a CSP file which we actually didn't handled directly, but the two feeds were matched up in the application to give users the ability to actually go ahead and select stations which obviously is a static lists of stations and then the actual arrival time of their train. So, one of the things that we can do is go to a quick demo of the MTA site. So, if the folks would - I guess that would be helpful if you want to switch over to me - if Evginey have that, I should have that up here on my screen if I can manage to find it.
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Yes, maybe I can turn it up. Just give me one minute. It's just a bit slow with the screen sharing, Ray.
Ray Saltini: Yes. [Pause] I have it up if you want to transfer the point. [Pause]
Moderator: Ray, I passed it to you so you could share your screen.
Ray Saltini: Terrific. So the folks can see here that we've actually got a - it's really optimized for the iPhone and it's limited. The choices of course are limited by the infrastructure that the MTA has in place to actually deliver the feeds for a particular line, but if we can take the local line and then we get a little map presented here. Then we get to choose to see when our next train would be at a particular station and click 168th Street in Washington Heights. This is something that you can actually try yourself if you go to datamine.mta.info. You'll see this application on your lower right-hand side, and then click and you'll get your arrival times for the next several trains. So, it's a very, very simple implementation of this feeds technology, but it's the implementation that is being expanded upon everyday by the developer community. It is leveraged by more and more feeds that become available through the MTA. That is the heart of the matter on this application screen. Never maximize your screen when you are using two monitors. Okay. So whatever's down here…okay. So, one of the things that the MTA has done is really engaged and invested in the open source and the developer community and terrific resources of MTA, developer resources group on Google groups, as well. That and, of course, some of the technology sites that we showed you around, Edge side, includes and the transit feeds and Varnish will help you leverage this kind of implementation for your own projects. I think that this was a very out-of-the-box implementation of Drupal and, although it was a very robust enterprise level website platform, more and more we see it every day being used to create very robust, sophisticated web applications. We also saw an atypical implementation of Edge Side Includes with this. The limiting Drupal bootstrapped to really accelerate access to that level of caching. It was an important part of the engineering and architecting work that the team was able to accomplish with this project. We were actually able to ratchet the system up to 5,000 hits per second, specifically, so that the system could accommodate increased load as in the median term. So, although they only have one feed set up and running at the moment, the system was really built to handle increased capacity on an incremental phase and basis. It really is an opportunity to show off the robustness of Drupal and some of these other technologies when they're planned out and built carefully and optimized. So thank you for everyone's time and indulgence. If we have some questions, and if there are some things that we could provide some clarity around, we certainly will.
Moderator: Great! Thank you so much Ray and Evginey. If you have any questions, please ask them in the Q&A tab right now and we'll get to them. [Pause] It doesn't look like we have any questions. Ray and Evginey, do you want to end with anything or contact information if they think of anything?
Ray Saltini: Yes, absolutely! We are available at blinkreaction.com. We offer a growing selection of introductory and advanced Drupal training classes. We, of course, do professional services work on the front and back end as a function of our relationship with Acquia. We're just looking to have the opportunity to share. Evginey, I don't know if you want to add anything…
Moderator: We actually have some questions that came in if you wouldn't mind answering them.
Ray Saltini: No, not at all.
Moderator: Okay. The first one was, what was the biggest challenge with the parser?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Basically, it didn't exist and it existed for another version of PHP. We needed to adapt it. It's short end syntax, the use of name spaces and stuff like that. So we needed to scale it back to Drupal 5.2 because that's what's available on the hosting. Basically, that's how we achieved it.
Moderator: Okay. Great! The next question is how do you handle caching for authenticated sessions?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Yes, sure. So, basically, there are many different ways to do it. So, specifically, for the back-end, we use Edge Side Includes and that's how we are able to sustain this huge load with verifying the keys and still providing the almost real-time data which is cache just for 30 seconds with the use of Edge Side Includes. For front-end, it's basic or standard Drupal caching that has provided blocks caching to use caching.
Ray Saltini: So, through the use of this caching that Evginey is speaking of, we were able to limit Drupal's bootstrap. So, we didn't need to move a full instance of Drupal in order to update the cache at any one given point in time to check developer credentials. This was handled in cache. If at any one given point in time a development credentials have been revoked, the access rights for that particular developer or their access to even a particular feed will be selectively removed from the cache. That was an important - this concept of limiting Drupal's bootstrapping is very essential. So, we used it for what we needed.
Moderator: Okay. Great!
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Yes, and actually there are a couple of other questions about how it works internally. So, I have two more slides that I can go over for specifically for what's stored in Drupal versus what's stored in cache and how it all works and how the results are matched with GTFS data. So, I just saw a couple of questions about it. So, if you want to make me the presenter…
Moderator: Okay. Let me pass it over to you. [Pause]
Evgeniy Kashchenko: So are you passing the presenter to me then?
Moderator: Yes, you have it.
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Maybe it's on the way [laughter].
Ray Saltini: Maybe it's still seeing the Acquia presentation.
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Yes, I still see questions slide.
Ray Saltini: Is it me who has it?
Moderator: You'll have to re-share your screen. [Pause]
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Okay. Let's see. Does it work?
Moderator: Yes.
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Okay. Cool! So, I hope this will answer some of the more technical questions that were asked already. So, that's a bit more detailed architectural diagram of how it works or the data flow. So here is how they request to go through and basically what happens is when somebody tries to request a feed through the API, the request is sent to Varnish. That request is actually for MTAESI.PHP. That's the wrapper that basically checks your key validness and then includes - we have ESI, the real-time data. So, Varnish first tries to look up the cache for this page in the internal memory and then if it's not found, it goes to the back-end to actually get it. What happens here is we first check in Memcache if we know this key and, if it's valid, then we can basically return the data on this step. If not, then we will need to load Drupal at the lower bootstrap level and that's basically the level to actually get access to the database. The bootstrap steps are on the right of the screen in here. So, we take first the three but the rest is kept. This allows us to save a lot of time of Drupal configuration. So again, we'll level bootstrap Drupal. We are getting the information about the key from Drupal database and make sure that it's valid and after that, we can store it in Memcache for further reference and we can return the ESI tag to the data file which we do in here using this ESI tag that is on the right. Basically, the path in here is the location of this file on your file system. It gets there by MTA pushing it to that location so that it is up to date all the time. So, we serve this tag with PHP then Varnish understands that it's not something that he wants to return as is, but it needs to be switched to the file that is in here, which is done, and then it's returned back to the consumer. So, basically, Varnish does two different types of caching. First, it caches the MTAESI.PHP file with your access key and that duration is 30 minutes, whereas the included file itself is cached only for 30 seconds because that's the frequency of the updates and we want the data to be up-to-date. So, basically, what it allows us to achieve is that this file where ESI is included is shared among all of the requests. So, basically, first it requests to Varnish, populates it and then it's just searched from cache, whereas a request to ESI-PHP is key specific. If you have access to the service within the last 30 minutes, then Varnish will remember you and will give you the file it wants. Otherwise, if it's like an hour or a couple of hours, then we'll still have the data about the key in Memcache which has a longer period of life for your key. If the key is for some reason deactivated by an admin personnel, then it is also removed from the Memcache. So hopefully this explains why they needed that they also know how the cache is done for the API portal. Now, to talk about the demo app and how the data is matched there. Basically, we have two types of GTFS data files here. One is static and that one has train schedules - basically, trains names and stations that were there; whereas, real time has actual delays or any changes in the schedule that are there. So the static data doesn't change that often, like maybe a couple of times a year. It's cached in Drupal tables. So, basically an admin personnel can refresh it at will when they need to, and it will be updated in Drupal tables, whereas real-time GTFS data is parsed by this protobuf PHP module, which can be found on gate hub by default URL. So, what it does is parses this binary data file and populates it to Drupal cache so that when users come to the website, we can get the data about lines and different stops on them, and then map match it with real-time data to provide the results that you saw on Ray's demo. So, I hope that helps and we'll look through the other questions that you might have.
Moderator: Okay. Great! The next question is, is Drupal storing data from the parser or simply rendering it? If it's just rendering the data, do you have to write a custom module to interpret that data and output it into the view?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Yes, basically, that's what I just went over. So the real time data is parsed by this protobuf PHP by Ivan Montes. Then it's stored in Drupal cache.
Moderator: Okay. The next question is, how many instances of the app do you have for the load? How scalable is this?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: There are a couple of servers that are shared among a couple of different applications that MTA has. So it's not only this demo app and API portal, but it also has some other Drupal applications that MTA already built before. What makes it informant is actually the caching architecture and infrastructure that is put in place.
Moderator: Okay. Great. Are there any real-time statistics? Let's say - how many users are using it at the same time?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: There are some based on operational data. There is a plan to add more of real time monitoring there and generate administrative reports, as well. That's something that is planned for the next phase. In terms of real numbers, I'm sorry. I just don't have those [laughter].
Moderator: Of course. The next question that came in is, so does it mean that the entire cache is being flushed and rebuilt every 30 seconds?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Let me go back to this slide. I'm not sure which application you're asking about but if it's API portal, then the part with your key is cached for 30 minutes within Varnish and a longer period within Memcache, and the file itself with the real-time data is refreshed each 30 seconds. If you're talking about demo app, then again, there are two pieces in it. For the static data, it is refreshed as needed and real-time data - I think right now, it's set to a minute or so. So again, it's an app for demo purposes. The intention is for other developers to understand what data is inside and how it can be leveraged.
Moderator: Okay. Great! I think that's it for questions. On my end, the recording will be posted in the next 48 hours to the website and we'll email it out to you. I want to say a big thanks to Ray and Evginey for presenting and thank you everyone for attending. Evginey, do you want to end with anything?
Evgeniy Kashchenko: No. Thanks a lot everybody for joining us today and let me just share this slide. So basically, you can reach me or Ray at the emails that are on the screen. It's email@example.com or evginey.ka - oh wait a minute that's misspelled. It's email@example.com.
Moderator: Alright. Thank you so much.
Evgeniy Kashchenko: Again, thanks for participating today.
Moderator: Bye.
Ray Saltini: Thank you.


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Not saving projects as xds by default
Hi, this may be a bug.
When I go to save, and I enter name, it saves as "project" for example.
When I want to open the project, program looks for .xds files and it doesn't have the option * All files in the combobox.
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Strange thing is that when you save as, it has "Save as: Ext Designer Project (*.xds)" but it doesn't add the extension to the file.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The order of spellers during the 27th annual Belmont County Spelling Bee is determined by random draw, numbering one through 18.
But if there was one number that Union Local seventh-grader Justin Hamilton did not want, it was No. 4.
That was Hamilton's number two years ago during his first attempt at claiming the county's spelling bee. The result? Hamilton missed his first word and was eliminated.
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JUSTIN HAMILTON poses for a photo following his victory in the 27th annual Belmont County Spelling Bee. In the front row, from left, are Sam Lucas, principal at Union Local Middle School; the champion speller's father, Paul Hamilton; Justin and his mother, Rachel Hamilton. In the back row, from left, are Linda Koledin, The Citizens Bank; Lynne Mamone, East Central Ohio Educational Service Center; Kim Collette, The Times Leader; Scott Briggs, Riesbeck's Food Markets; and Lisa Stupak, East Central Ohio ESC.
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Clark receives a $250 cash prize, the second-place trophy and a Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. Ake earned a $150 cash prize and a third-place trophy while Tiber took home a $100 cash prize and the fourth-place trophy.
St. Clairsville Middle School eighth-grader Paige Becket won $50 for winning the design contest for the cover of the spelling bee program.
Hamilton's victory is the ninth time that a Union Local student has captured the county spelling bee and first since AJ Feiock did so in 2010.
The spelling bee was again sponsored by The Times Leader, Riesbeck's Food Markets, The Citizens Bank, Airport Limousine Service, AAA Ohio Auto Club, the Belmont County Educational Services Center and the East Central Ohio ESC.
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Josh Koppel, Founder of ScrollMotion
Josh Koppel has extensive background in video, in print, and in mobile combined with his experiments in large-screen and small-screen media, are the basis for ScrollMotion's innovative work of creating eBooks for specifically for the iPhone, iPad, and iTouch from Apple.
Josh has produced work for MTV, AMC, Fine Living, Shop at Home, The N, Rick Rubin, and Rage Against the Machine. He has worked with Harold Ramis and Bob Balaban to create TV shows for Comedy Central and the Sundance Channel.
His company, ScrollMotion, is a media and technology company specializing in the development of innovative applications for mobile devices. Using proprietary technology for the iPhone and iPod Touch, ScrollMotion is reshaping digital art, information and entertainment in an intuitive and enjoyable way. The company's flagship product, the Iceberg Reader, offers consumers a user-friendly and true-to-text eBook experience. ScrollMotion is also helping many of the greatest names in traditional media successfully transition to digital and mobile programming.
Rian Shams, NFTE Alumnus
Rian Shams is a recent engineering graduate from Binghamton University. Having participated in a NFTE business plan competition over a decade ago he is building on these skills to launch an exciting fitness and technology venture called TEEK™.
TEEK™ is a start-up venture that looks to promote health and wellness through innovative and interactive products. The company is currently prototyping their initial line of wearable exercise devices that monitor technique. Proper technique is essential because it helps make your workout more efficient and reduces your risk of injury.


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Some courses at Saint Louis University have an automated waitlist.
This allows you to add yourself to the waitlist for a closed course.
If / When space becomes available you are notified via an E-mail to your SLU E-mail account.
You can then register for the course through the MySLU Add/Drop classes screen.
The date and time you added yourself to a waitlist is stored and students are notified on a first-come-first-serve basis.
How to Waitlist
- When you attempt to register for a closed course with a waitlist you will be prompted to select "Waitlisted" and then click "Submit Changes"
- If you do not want to be on the waitlist select "None" and click "Submit Changes"
- If/When a seats becomes available you will receive an E-mail
- You will have 24 hours to register for the course
- Navigate to your Add/Drop classes page and change the status to "Web Registered"
- If you fail to register within the allotted time the seat will be given to the next student on the waitlist
- Once your schedule is finalized please remove yourself from any remaining waitlists via the Add/Drop classes page
- Change the status of the course to "Web Dropped"
- When a waitlist exists the Seats Remaining column, "REM", on the class search is NOT accurate. If a seat opens, priority goes to the waitlisted students. You may add yourself to a waitlist to get future available seats.
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Welcome to the Working Week
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Elvis Costello: Welcome to the Working Week provided courtesy of the iTunes Music Store.
Other songs on this album
- (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
- Alison
- Less Than Zero
- Miracle Man
- Mystery Dance
- Waiting For The End Of The World
- Watching The Detectives
Other songs by this artist
- A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
- Edith and the Kingpin
- Almost Blue
- Good Year For The Roses
- Anchored In Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash
- Ring Of Fire
- Armed Forces
- (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
- Accidents Will Happen
- Chimes of Freedom
- License to Kill
- Get Happy!!
- I Can't Stand Up (For Falling Down)
- Imperial Bedroom
- Almost Blue
- Beyond Belief
- Man Out Of Time
- Mighty Like a Rose
- All Grown Up
- Broken
- Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4
- Georgie and Her Rival
- Harpies Bizarre
- So Like Candy
- Momofuku
- American Gangster Time
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Does anyone know of any Jewish religious works written in Spanish or Ladino by a prominent Jewish scholar (eg, Ibn Ezra, etc.)?
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The first thing that comes to mind is the Me'am Lo'ez, by R' Yaakov Culi. It's a commentary on the Bible written in Ladino. In the course of commentary, it ranges widely into exposing all areas of Torah.
There's an English translation called The Torah Anthology, by R' Aryeh Kaplan.
The Library of Congress has a large catalog of works written in Ladino, many of which were written by prominent scholars. It might take a while to sift through the database, as there is a lot of material there.
Matthias Lehmann's book on Ladino rabbinic literature might be a good place to start... He discusses the context and history of mussar literature (writings on Jewish ethical and spiritual development) in Ladino. It looks like many of the works he discusses are translations from Hebrew.
And I second the "vote" for the Me'am Lo'ez! It is my favourite commentary to learn Pirqei Avoth with. By the way, it was started by R. Culi, but he unfortunately died in the middle of his commentary on Exodus. The project was completed by other contemporary rabbis, including Yitshaq Magriso, Yitshaq Agruiti, and Rahamim Mitrani.
You could also try Menashe ben Yisra'el.
Here's one of his works in Spanish: De la Fragilidad Humana y Inclinacion del Hombre al Peccado
And, here's a web page of his works in general: Menashe ben Yisra'el Collection
This is probably not what you're looking for, but there are apparently a few words of Spanish in the Zohar.


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Because the world is rapidly moving to OAuth 1.0a exclusively after a rather painful attack was discovered against 1.0, I've recently been updating our bling HTTP/REST/XML IPC library librest to support it. In particular Twitter only supports 1.0a, and Fire Eagle shows the user a very scary message unless 1.0a is used. Now that the code is finished I thought I'd give a example of the new API when used with Twitter.
#include <rest/oauth-proxy.h>
Including the OAuthProxy headers is a good start.
int main (int argc, char **argv) { GError *error = NULL; RestProxy *proxy; g_thread_init (NULL); g_type_init (); proxy = oauth_proxy_new ("UfXFxDbUjk41scg0kmkFwA", "pYQlfI2ZQ1zVK0f01dnfhFTWzizBGDnhNJIw6xwto", "https://twitter.com/", FALSE);
First, initalise the GLib threading and type system. Threading is required by libsoup at the moment because it will use threads to lookup names in the background, I imagine this requirement will disappear with the next GLib release.
Next, an OAuthProxy is created. The two strings of garbage are our OAuth Consumer Key and Consumer Secret, then the URL endpoint to access and FALSE to say that this URL is complete and doesn't require expansion. Yes, that was Consumer Secret. Not very secret, is it.
if (!oauth_proxy_request_token (OAUTH_PROXY (proxy), "oauth/request_token", "oob", &error)) g_error ("Cannot get request token: %s", error->message);
Here we ask for a Request Token. The function to call is oauth/request_token, and because this is a basic test application which doesn't support URI callbacks we're setting the callback URI to oob (out-of-band). It is the callback URI argument that tells the server that we're using OAuth 1.0a, in 1.0 this parameter (oauth_callback at the HTTP leve) doesn't exist.
The callback is used to pass from the server to the client a verifier which is then required to obtain the Access Token. In the case of Twitter, this is a seven digit number. If a URI was specified then it would be invoked with the verifier as a query argument, but because we're getting it out-of-band Twitter will show it to the user and ask them to enter it into the application.
g_print ("Go to http://twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=%s then enter the PIN\n", oauth_proxy_get_token (OAUTH_PROXY (proxy))); fgets (pin, sizeof (pin), stdin); g_strchomp (pin);
Here we tell the user to go to the authorisation URL (to which we add the request token we have so far), and then enter the PIN that Twitter gives them.
if (!oauth_proxy_access_token (OAUTH_PROXY (proxy), "oauth/access_token", pin, &error)) g_error ("Cannot get access token: %s", error->message);
Now we ask for an Accesss Token. The function to call is oauth/access_token, and we're passing the PIN the user entered as the validator. If we were using OAuth 1.0 then the validator would be NULL.
If this method succeeds then we have an Access Token, and are authenticated. To avoid the authentication dance the Access Token and Token Secret should be saved somewhere secure (gnome-keyring would be a good idea) for future use.
RestProxyCall *call; call = rest_proxy_new_call (proxy); rest_proxy_call_set_function (call, "statuses/update.xml"); rest_proxy_call_set_method (call, "POST"); rest_proxy_call_add_param (call, "status", "Hello from librest!"); if (!rest_proxy_call_sync (call, &error)) g_error ("Cannot make call: %s", error->message); return 0; }
First a Call object is created, which encapsulates all of the data required to make a REST call. The function is set to status/update.xml, the HTTP method set to POST (the default is, logically, GET), and a status message is set as a parameter. We make a synchronous call, and we're done. The bonus of using OAuth to authorise with Twitter is that you get the nice "from whatever" annotations on the tweets, to promote your application.
The full source of this example is available in git, along with other examples for Flickr and Fire Eagle. If you want to understand the differences between OAuth 1.0 and 1.0a but don't fancy reading both specifications in full, I can heartily endorse An Idiots Guide To OAuth 1.0a.
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EXCLUSIVEHere are the injuries that just cost Da Brat $6.4 MILLION -- after she brutally bottled an Atlanta nightclub waitress in the face back in 2007 -- the photos are intense ... but they raise an interesting question.
If you don't want to click, the pics show the bloodied face of former Atlanta Falcons cheerleader Shayla Stevens at the hospital immediately following Da Brat's attack.
Da Brat and Stevens had reportedly gotten into an argument inside Studio 72 nightclub, and when the waitress turned around to get her manager -- Da Brat smashed her in the face with a rum bottle.
There's no doubt Stevens' injuries are severe -- but $6.4 million is a LOT of money ... especially after Da Brat served a sizable prison sentence ... so we gotta ask ...
11:40 AM PT -- Da Brat just called in to "TMZ Live," and pretty much told Stevens to get in line ... because she owes a LOT of people money ... and $6.4 million isn't exactly in her budget.


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Does anyone know a good emacs configuration for creative writing? I'd be looking for the ability to write, edit, and export to libre office or word (so the less technical people get edit/view). I'm looking for something that would be appropriate for novels, not just short stories or blogging.
My personal setup uses Vim, but a large part of the stack would be applicable to any sufficiently advanced text editor. (Note: "sufficiently advanced text editors" are basically just emacs and Vim.) I don't know of any existing package that does all of this, but writing this for myself was actually pretty easy since it's just a matter of stitching together the existing tools.
I compose all of my stories using Markdown markup (the same markup that StackExchange uses on all of its sites). This allows me to do basic formatting (italics, underlining, outlining) with simple text decorations. For ordinary writing purposes, more complicated formatting is almost never necessary and is almost always a distraction. There already exist packages for both Vim and Emacs to facilitate syntax highlighting and other shortcuts for composing text in Markdown.
I write with Vim's spell-checker turned on. My
I have mapped a keystroke to invoke
I use pandoc for converting from Markdown into any of the myriad formats that pandoc supports. In my case, I'm interested in LaTeX (which I later convert into PDF), HTML, and RTF. Getting good LaTeX and RTF output requires that you write a custom output template, but this is actually pretty trivial, and the pandoc documentation covers this in plenty of detail.
I use the sffms LaTeX package for typesetting the LaTeX/PDF output. Sffms makes it dead-simple to create manuscripts that fit standard manuscript format with no effort at all. I prefer to send PDFs to people unless they've specified otherwise.
RTF can be read natively by every existing word-processing program, so I rarely find the need to convert it to something else. If I do, I open up the RTF file in Word and then save it in Word format, which is usually the only other thing that people ask for.
If you want to work within emacs, I would consider org-mode; it's what I'm currently using for writing projects (amongst other things).
First and foremost, it's an outliner, with facilities for structuring your document(s) hierarchically. If you want to plan a story out into acts, acts into sequences, sequences into scenes, maybe scenes into beats...structuring it hierarchically in an outliner is perfect. If you don't want to impose much structure, you don't have to -- use as little or as much as you want.
It supports basic markup. It supports hyperlinks within your document, between your
There are many modes that come with a modern emacs distribution that may help as well. I would be sure to enable flyspell-mode for spell checking as you compose, visual-line-mode for word wrapping to the editor window if you don't want to insert hard newlines, possibly linum-mode for displaying a running count of line numbers in the left-hand margin.
I personally like visualizing my whitespace glyphs (tabs and newlines in particular) and whitespace-mode can be configured to display these things subtly instead of gaudily. I would recommend against visualizing the "space" character...with a monospaced font, it should be pretty obvious that all the places that are not actual ascii characters, tabs or newlines are in fact space characters. The desire to do this may come from the fact that I'm a programmer using emacs first, and a semi-aspiring writer using emacs second.
Use google and the emacswiki for learning about all things emacs, and the tutorials on the org-mode website for org mode. The hack emacs series by rpdillon has a number of episodes on org-mode which I found to be useful.
This is an old thread, but maybe this contribution will still be helpful: I've written several books using emacs, and am also the author of the Woodnotes Guide for Emacs for Writers (not Coders) 1 and produced a cheatsheet 2 of commands and settings I find useful. Both are totally free/Creative Commons licensed.
If you're curious, on the same site you'll find an article I wrote about how I use emacs and other Linux tools to write books and another on how to make an epub from text files (for example, created using Vim or Emacs). I don't have a "10 reputation" so SE won't let me post more than two links. Have fun!
In addition to what Matt Anderson said, Org-mode does export to MSWord and LibreOffice. Here's a video I made demonstrating this: http://vimeo.com/31564708
I haven't done it, but I understand there is also an 'import' function that converts from MSWord/LibreOffice ODT to native Org-mode files. The little comment/annotation-blocks in right margin are also supported for export, and, I expect, import.
The video is actually of VimOrganizer, an Org-mode clone I'm writing for Vim. For export (and some other functions) it calls out to an Emacs server to perform the operation. VimOrganizer has gotten to the point that its an excellent solution for people who would like to use Org-mode but who -- for whatever reason -- have an aversion to Emacs. I don't like editing in Emacs myself, but Org-mode is a beautiful piece of work.
Since I use LaTeX, I divide the project into several files (settings, functions, chapters, etc.)
One frame, one window, if you like/need enable


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Does Kepler's law only apply to planets? If so why doesn't it apply to other objects undergoing circular motion?
By Kepler's law I'm referring to $T^2 \propto r^3$
Does Kepler's law only apply to planets? If so why doesn't it apply to other objects undergoing circular motion?
By Kepler's law I'm referring to $T^2 \propto r^3$
Kepler's third law, the so-called harmonic law, was published by Johannes Kepler in 1619, ten year after he published his first two laws. Not long thereafter, in 1643, the Flemish astronomer Godefroy Wendelin noted that Kepler's third law not only applies to the planets, but also to the moons of Jupiter.
Now we know that this law describes the motion of any two bodies in gravitational orbit around each other. In fact, all you need really is an inverse square central attractive force between the two bodies. This law still holds approximately also if there are other bodies present, as long as their gravitational influence on the smaller of the two bodies is minor compared to the gravity of the larger of the two bodies.
Stretching this law to cover Coulombic systems is perfectly ok. Kepler's third law is also observed in Rydberg atoms.
Kepler's second law (equal areas in equal times) is a consequence of angular momentum conservation, and so can be generalised to many other systems. Kepler's first and third laws (that the orbits are ellipses and the period vs. semi-major axis relationship) are consequences of the inverse square law for gravity and the two-body approximation. They would apply to any two bodies with an inverse square central force where disturbing influences can be neglected.
EDIT: I should add that you need to generalise the ellipses to arbitrary conic sections to cover all cases of the inverse-square law. Ellipses describe bound states, but you can also get parabolic and hyperbolic "fly-by" trajectories. There is also the degenerate case of straight lines when there is no lateral velocity at all and the bodies just fall straight towards each other.
It is a result of Newton's Laws of Motion that works under a specific set of conditions and would apply to any object put under similar conditions. The key is that the moving body is subject to one major attractive force that is much larger than any other force and there is enough initial velocity tangent to that force to prevent collision. Planetary motion is the most obvious example of this motion as most moving objects you see day to day are subject to alot more forces than just one and definitely are not above earth's escape velocity.


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I'd like to get some help to build a like/dislike sorting algorithm to find the best entries. I thought about a way to do it, but there are two major flaws with this method and I'd like to know if there's any better way.
Here's how I thought about doing it:
The entries would be sorted by the ratio given by
l/d where
l = number of likes and
d = number of dislikes, so that those with a higher ratio have a bigger likes count and deserve a higher up place than those with a low ratio.
There are two issues with this method:
1: if the number of dislikes is 0 the
l/d will be impossible. So even if an entry has a thousand of likes and 0 dislikes it still won't get any place into the scoreboard.
2: entries with a low amount of likes and dislikes are at an advantage in comparison with those with many ratings since it takes a low amount of ratings to influence the ratio and give the entry a good score.
What do you think?
EDIT: Here's a possible alternative that fixes the 1st issue:
(l + 1) / (d + 1). Any feedback on this one?


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Over the past half century, scientists at JILA came up with the idea to place a reflector on the moon to help measure its distance from the Earth; made precision laser measurements that led to a more accurate value for the speed of light and redefinition of the meter; and created a new form of matter, the first ultracold molecules and the first tabletop X-ray laser. Since 2001, three JILA fellows have received the Nobel Prize in physics.
For more about JILA through the years visit http://colorado.edu/news/features/jila-through-years. For more information about the public events to be held during the 50th anniversary celebration of JILA visit http://jila.colorado.edu/.
Feature Articles
The latest Thompson Reuters list of highly cited researchers around the world includes seven faculty members from the University of Colorado Boulder and two from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver.
Deborah Jin has won the 2014 Isaac Newton Medal, the highest accolade given by the Institute of Physics. She was cited for her experimental work in laser cooling atoms. This work has led to the practical demonstration of universal laws that...
Feeling out of synch? The world's most precise clock is now located on the CU-Boulder campus.
In the late 1980s, scientists in a JILA lab on the CU-Boulder campus were trying to create a new form of matter at what would be the coldest temperature in the universe.
University of Colorado Boulder Professor Andrew Hamilton, doggedly determined to go where no man has gone before, continues to fascinate the public with his stunning and scientifically sound visualizations that take viewers into the guts of black...
Since its formation 50 years ago, JILA, the joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards (NIST), has been the site of groundbreaking research and has produced three Nobel Prize winners,...
JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology that has produced three Nobel Prize winners since 2001, has opened a new wing with...
JILA, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has generated many spinoff companies, including 11 companies in the Colorado Front Range area.
JILA was founded as a joint institute between the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1962 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year. It is located on the CU-Boulder campus.
Physicists at JILA on the CU-Boulder campus have for the first time observed chemical reactions near absolute zero, demonstrating that chemistry is possible at ultralow temperatures and that reaction rates can be controlled using quantum...
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Margaret Murnane elected to American Philosophical Society - May 19, 2015
JILA team finds first direct evidence of 'spin symmetry' in atoms - August 21, 2014
JILA physicists discover 'quantum droplet' in semiconductor - February 26, 2014
JILA strontium atomic clock sets new records in both precision and stability - January 22, 2014
CU-Boulder/NIST physicist honored with 2013 Presidential Early Career Award - January 07, 2014
JILA team develops 'spinning trap' to measure electron roundness - December 05, 2013
National science report highlights CU-Boulder spinoff companies - October 29, 2013


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What does the LDS/Mormon church teach about the relationship between Jesus and Lucifer? Are they beings on the same level or of the same origin? What are their natures? What texts are used to teach specifically about the relationship between them?
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The LDS theological view is that God, the Eternal Father, created all spirits, including Jesus the Firstborn, Lucifer, and all the rest of us, as His spirit children. Further, God is a separate being from Jesus and the Holy Ghost, who are all individual personages.
These three beings constitute the godhead, which is different from the usual Trinity belief.
These teachings are in harmony with at least the following scriptures:
For context: there was a council in heaven regarding God's plan for all His spirit children. God's plan was presented, and a Savior was needed to fulfill it. Jesus was Chosen by the Father to fulfill that role.
Satan opposed, declaring his plan, which was contrary to the will of the Father. War ensued between "the dragon" (Satan) and the Christ's followers, which war is still ongoing today, here in mortality. It's a sibling rivalry, if you will, which Jesus and His disciples will win in the end.
The LDS church teaches that Christ, Lucifer, and all beings that live know, have lived and will live here are God's spirit children. That makes Christ and Lucifer brothers, and all of us their siblings.
Before we came to earth God asked one of His children to play the role of a savior. That person would have to carry out the atonement so that both justice and mercy could be satisfied.
There were two volunteers. Jesus Christ was willing to obey God's plan. This plan allows the rest of us to choose whether or not we would follow God's commandments and give the glory to God.
Lucifer wanted to force us to obey the commandments and he wanted the glory for himself. One third of God's children wanted it Satan's way and a war broke out.
Lucifer and his followers were cast out and not allowed to gain a body and live a life on earth.
So the LDS church teaches that Lucifer is our spiritual brother and Christ's as well. That doesn't mean that he has our best interests in mind. He's jealous of our physical bodies and the experiences we get to have and so he and his followers try to get us to abuse the bodies we have.


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Health and Beauty Treatments That Might Save Your Life
OK, so maybe not immediately, but develop these health and beauty habits and they will add years to your life
How often should you go? "Ideally, a patient should see their dentist every six months or at least once every year," says Golub-Evans. And in between those visits? "Brushing and flossing! Flossing is especially important. I recommend that patients floss first, then brush, then rinse every night. In the morning, it's fine to just brush. Once a day flossing is enough for most people. Keeping to an overall healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables is also beneficial. And, of course, people should try to monitor their intake of things like sweets, alcohol and cigarettes. Acidic items are also hard on the teeth," he says.
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Yep, we all need a little of these!
by EricaF123 Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 08:14AM Report as inappropriate
These seem self-explanatory, but none of these tips can be ignored. Thorough information in a great article!
by GigiSD Friday, February 15, 2013 at 11:20PM Report as inappropriate
by aishak55 Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 03:21PM Report as inappropriate
Interesting piece. Some of the "impact without treatment" portions seem a bit dramatic.
by robyne00 Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 12:45PM Report as inappropriate
Ideally I would love to do all these when required to, but I foresee that becoming very expensive. Except for working out and eating healthy I can't afford to do everything at all the times necessary. Ah!
by Lamexicana1 Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 07:34PM Report as inappropriate
I need one of those right now .
by yadijane Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 05:42PM Report as inappropriate
I believe that for the busy person who really does not take care of their skin this is a very good article. We know that they will not heed to all the suggestions, but, if they take one or 2 points away it will be to their benefit. Face it, if they are busy, they are probably not going to read the entire article anyway!!
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I have never had a massage, I'd like to try it
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Wow! Good luck convincing my husband to let me get a massage once a week! I would love to, but I usually only get one every several years. I work a very stressful job, so perhaps it may be worth looking into!
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excellent info!
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text: I have over the last few months noticed that there are many different, more effective and more efficent means of doing things then the way the general population does them.For example, learning the Japanese alphabet was somewhat difficult for me using the traditional method of memorization until I found a book called "Remembering the Kana". I also experienced the same thing when I was doing another task. The method I was using and what the majority of the people I knew were using was inefficient and not the most effective. My question to you is How do you find the most effective and efficient way of doing a task? Of course one of is to ask questions on the stackexchange but does anyone employ other, more different methods?


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In addition to teaching courses in painting, drawing and interdisciplinary arts (Capstone), Professor Higgins is a cross-disciplinary artist who actively exhibits and publishes her work. She has had solo shows at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, University of California (Los Angeles), Counterpath (Denver), BC Space (Laguna Beach) and other venues. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum/Grunwald Collection, Erie Art Museum (Pennsylvania), Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography, Special Collections/UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library, Avant Writing Collection/The Ohio State University Libraries (Columbus), Judith A. Hoffberg Archive (Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara), The State University of New York at Buffalo (University at Buffalo Libraries, Special Collections) and elsewhere. Text/image-based art can be found in various forms such as paintings/drawings, visual poetry, artists' books, book sculptures, installation, mail art, photo-related works, and performance art as reviewed/published in THE BOSTON GLOBE, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, ANTIQUES & THE ARTS WEEKLY (New York), GENRE, ARTWEEK, and L.A. WEEKLY, among others. University of Iowa Press and other publishers have anthologized her poetry. DIAGRAM, BEYOND BAROQUE MAGAZINE, and FRE*QUEN*CY: THE POETHICS OF CHANGE (Naropa Press) also have included her poetry. Higgins has a special interest in word-image connections. Her visual poetry is published in VISIO-TEXTUAL SELECTRICITY (Runaway Spoon Press), ELEVEN ELEVEN (California College of the Arts), and THE L.A. TELEPHONE BOOK, VOL. 1, and VOL. 2. and also has been exhibited at Skylab Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), New Puppy Gallery (Los Angeles), Counterpath (Denver) and Otis College of Art and Design. OF MATERIALS, IMPLEMENTS (Dusie) and c o m b - i n g m i n e - i n g s (Dusie) are combination artist books and poetic chapbooks. OF TRAVERSE AND TEMPLATE (Mindmade Books) interweaves logographic drawings with poetic text. Throughout the years, Higgins has created performance-based artworks, most recently presented at Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Counterpath (Denver, Colo.), the latter piece documented in EMERGENCY INDEX, VOL. 4 (Ugly Duckling Presse). Strongly believing in experiential learning, she has traveled to China, Japan, Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Mexico, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, France, Germany, and Ireland.
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Higgins earned her M.F.A. from Otis College of Art and Design, M.A. from California State University, Fullerton, and B.A. from California State University, Long Beach.


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Martha M. Friesen, 93, of Henderson died Feb. 17, 2013 at Henderson. She was born March 7, 1919 in York County to Henry E. and Margaretha (Peters) Mierau and was a longtime member of the Bethesda Mennonite Church.
On Nov. 27, 1940 she married Harvey Friesen at Henderson.
She is survived by twin sons Ivan D. (Rachel) Friesen of Bluffton, Ohio, and Erwin D. (Marcia) Friesen of Nebraska City; daughter Eulene "Fern" (Barry) Hieb of Tucson, Ariz.; nine grandchildren; and 19 great grandchildren.
She was preceded by her husband, three brothers and seven sisters.
Graveside services are at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the Bethesda Mennonite Cemetery northeast of Henderson with the Rev. Jim Voth officiating. Memorial services will follow at 11 a.m. at the Bethesda Mennonite Church. Memorials may be directed to Bethesda Radio Broadcast.
Visitation is after 5 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the mortuary. Her family will greet friends Tuesday evening from 7-9 p.m. at the mortuary.
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I would have thought that databases would know enough about what they encounter often and be able to respond to the demands they're placed under that they could decide to add indexes to highly requested data.
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Some databases do already (kind of) create indexes automatically.
In SQL Server the execution plan can sometimes include an Index Spool operator where the RDBMS dynamically creates an indexed copy of the data. However this spool is not a persistent part of the database kept in synch with the source data and it cannot be shared between query executions, meaning execution of such plans may end up repeatedly creating and dropping temporary indexes on the same data.
Perhaps in the future RDBMSs will have the capacity to dynamically drop and create persistent indexes according to workload.
The process of index optimisation is in the end just a cost benefit analysis. Whilst it is true that humans may have more information about relative importance of queries in a workload in principle there is no reason why this information could not be made available to the optimiser. SQL Server already has a resource governor that allows sessions to be classified into different workload groups with different resource allocations according to priority.
The missing index DMVs mentioned by Kenneth are not intended to be implemented blindly as they only consider the benefits to a specific query and make no attempt to take account of the cost of the potential index to other queries. Nor does it consolidate similar missing indexes. e.g. the output of this DMV may report missing indexes on
Some current issues with the idea are
It is probably reasonable to expect the accuracy of costing models to improve over time but point 2 looks trickier to solve and point 3 is inherently insoluble.
Nevertheless probably the vast majority of installs are not in this idealised situation with skilled staff who continuously monitor, diagnose, and anticipate (or at least react to) changes in workloads.
The AutoAdmin project at Microsoft Research has been running since 1996
The project home page lists several intriguing projects. One is particularly relevant to the question here
The authors state
The paper introduces an algorithm
The implementation of the algorithm allows for throttling in response to changes in server load and also can abort index creation if during creation the workload changes and expected benefit falls below the point that it is deemed worthwhile.
The conclusion of the authors on the topic of Online versus traditional physical tuning.
The conclusions here are similar to those in another paper Autonomous Query-driven Index Tuning
The index design that you put in place is something more of an art than a science. The RDBMS isn't smart enough to take common workloads and design a smart indexing strategy. It is up to human intervention (read: DBA) to analyze workload and determine what is the best approach.
If there was no penalty of having indexes then it would be a shotgun approach to just add an infinite number of indexes. But because data modification (INSERTS, UPDATES, and DELETES) have impact on the enabled indexes on a table then there is going to be that variable overhead of these indexes.
It takes human design and strategy to smartly create indexes that'll maximize read performance, while having the least amount of data modification overhead.
In fact, there are some databases that do this. For example, Google's BigTable and Amazon's SimpleDB automatically create indices (though neither are RDBMS's). There is also at least one MySQL RDBMS engine that does this. SQL Server also keeps track of indices it thinks you should create, though it doesn't go so far as actually creating them.
The problem is surprisingly difficult to get correct, so it's no wonder that most databases don't automatically create them (BigTable/SimpleDB get away with it because they don't allow arbitrary joins, which makes things significantly easier). Also, creating indices on the fly is a time-consuming process that requires exclusive access to the entire table - definitely not something you want happening while the table is on-line.
However, given the number of LAMP web applications out there that were written by amateurs who don't even know what an index is, I still think this feature would be beneficial for some people.
While there are some extensive answers already, they seem to skirt around the real answer: Indexes aren't always desirable.
With the car analogy mentioned in comments, you'd be better of saying why aren't all cars fitted with extreme sports packages? Partly it's expense, but it's also down to the fact that a lot of people don't need or want low profile tires and rock hard suspension; it's unnecessarily uncomfortable.
So maybe you have 1,000 reads for every insert, why not have an auto created index? If the table is wide and the queries are varied, why not have several? Maybe the commit is time critical and the reads aren't; in the circumstances it might be unacceptable to slow down your insert. Maybe you're working with limited disk space and you can't afford to have additional indexes eating into the space you've got.
The point is, indexes aren't automatically created because they aren't the answer to everything. Designing indexes isn't simply a case of saying "hey this will speed up my reads", there are other factors to consider.
They can analyse past queries and suggest/create indexes however this doesn't work optimally because indexes strike a balance to speed up what you want optimised at a cost and the server can not know your intentions.
They are not smart, they are a piece of code. Every time you input new data to a database, it needs to find a new location to it and a map to find it when it is requested. Indexing sounds easier than it is, you just give a new number to a new chunk of data? Well, how about if the next query is not about the last chunk of data but about 36271 chuncks earlier? You can easily find it with your index, right? But what if the query includes a word like "fishing" to be found in the old 36271 chunk made in 1997? Ho? Not a word about fishing in the old article.
If data came to the database one by one, it could be indexed like that. But simple indexing will have you wrong results and/or slow performance sooner or later...


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"Geotagging" has been around for a number of years now. Why haven't the major camera producers (Canon, Nikon, etc.) gotten around to installing internal GPS systems in their point-and-shoot cameras to automatically geotag photos? Even more so, why not in SLRs which don't have the same size constraints?
There are now 17 digital cameras with GPS. It's a simple search on Neocamera: http://www.neocamera.com/search_camera.php?gps=1&by=feature
If you look at the Refine Results column (the orange box) in the above page, you'll see the break down by category (9 compact, 1 large, 1 SLD, 2 DSLR and 4 ultra-compact at this time).
Nikon is still missing from there and it is mostly expected. Big players tend to play it safe and have less pressure to shake things since they already have a good chunk of the market. They do try sometimes though, as you may note from Nikon's two cameras with built-in projectors and one discontinued model with GPS (P6000).
Canon recently introduced the Powershot SX230 HS which is their first camera with built-in GPS.
Couple of reasons:
It's a niche feature that requires extra hardware (which increases manufacturing and warranty costs). It makes camera interface more confusing. It eats battery and there are privacy concerns, so many users might choose to keep it switched off even if they had the feature (but why would they still want to pay for it?).
An average point-and-shoot user snapping family pictures simply doesn't care. I have geotagged some of my photos in past, but didn't see the value for most pictures.
Entry level systems are competing on price. Upper level systems are built modularly, and accessories usually yield a higher margin to the manufacturer and resellers. As long as customers don't turn down new models because they lack built-in geotagging, there's no need to add the feature.
Don't forget that GPS only works when you are outside, with a clear view of the sky. Really expensive GPS chips can acquire satellites indoors or under heavy tree cover, but given they typically cost more than point and shoots, I doubt you will find high end chips in cameras.
Mobile phones have GPS chips because they are required by US and Europe law for location during 911 calls and other emergencies. Most of these do not have high end chips, instead they have chips that require first narrowing location via cell towers.
So, P&S don't have GPS often because GPS chips that work are very expensive, or require GSM/CDMA connections.
As someone who owns a GPS enabled camera (Samsung ST1000), I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it sucks! I have had mine for a couple of years now, and i think i successfully took about 6 photos with it that ended up being GeoCoded. it takes about 5 min to find a satelite and lock on, but in all fairness, when it does it works grand. I have gone back to carrying a External GPS logger and importing that into Lightroom. It also works grand when shooting on multiple Cameras (I shoot on either a Canon 5dMKII or Sony NEX-3 and Lightroom works grand)...
I came to this site after a google, since I wanted to know whether it is better to have GPS in a camera. I was comparing Canon SX220HS and SX230HS cameras. The only difference between the two is the GPS in the latter. Price difference is negligible. I don't mind having a GPS, but have decided to buy the one without. I think this is a somewhat useless feature. If I go to Beijing or Bangalore or Boston, I know that I'm in Beijing or Bangalore or Boston. It may be useful if I am completely out of mind with a prolonged "hangover" (the movie) effect, then yes GPS helps. Or if I am moving to different locations on a single day.
GPS on a camera is a waste of battery, added software and hardware, added radiation (even if it is safe - in whatever small amounts), added cost and added complication. Decided on 220SX.
I'm using the Panasonic Lumix TZ10 one of the earlier GPS models that have a really working GPS. I have to say that it doesn't add much in my oppinion. Also some stated above, that it consumes a lot of battery.
That is true, but when i'm going for a photographing day (holiday or so) i charge my camera's before i leave and you can shoot 1 day with GPS on if you like.. so for me the battery consumption isn't an issue.. just the fact that you can't use geo-tagging in photo-books ;-) is the main reason i say.. if you don't have GPS in your camera.. who cares.. it's not like you can use it to navigate :P
Looking at the question from another angle, you probably have a GPS camera already (or will have one pretty soon) and that's your smartphone. Image quality of high end smartphones is almost on par with the average point & shoot cameras, plus they can automatically geo-tag you photos and upload them to your online photosharing service of choice. Plus, there's one less device to carry around (not a DSLR replacement, mind you).


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So whose starting a post-patch long-term save and who are you managing and why?
Mine's gonna be with Chesterfield. I think the reason is pretty obvious
So whose starting a post-patch long-term save and who are you managing and why?
Mine's gonna be with Chesterfield. I think the reason is pretty obvious
Falkirk for me, heard good things about their youth facilities and players
Colchester United
I've decided to load quite a large number of various leagues around the world and then start unemployed and see what comes my way.
I think it's important that my extensive fanbase knows that I will be starting a thread in the Career Updates forum.
Tempted to do another Colchy...
Should I really start another save with the mighty Port Vale? I started one on release and i'm currently in my 5th season. Made many bad decisions on the way, but as it was my first proper season on a recent FM, I learned alot about the tactics etc. The bad side is they still have no money or chairman, and are probably under a transfer embago!
I think it will be a much tougher challenge.
1. FC Kaiserslautern - Why? Because its my favorite club
cowdenbeath champs lg will be the plan and try improve scottish lg
I fancy starting a career with Argyle at some point. Always had a soft spot for The Pilgrims.
cowdenbeath and win the champs lg
america (mexico) my equipo del corazon (the team of my heart) since the day i born.
Just bought Total War Shogun 2 but I might find time to start up a Malaga save- trying to topple Barcelona and Real Madrid should be a challenge right? It's too easy to win and then defend league titles in other countries (won the title with Leeds in my 2nd PL season)
I'll be going for Bolton Wanderers
I'm going in as Newcastle United. I consider all the play I have had up till now as practice
had a Bristol City season when I first had the game but gonna start again now with them and try to replicate the success
I dont understand why the patch is so essential for people to start a long term/career save? Hae I missed something?
Aston Villa try and make them worthy of being in the premier league and not just above relegation. Might add a second manager as Oxford United as I support both teams.
I will start my usual Bromley career save soon, I generally wait a week just in case there is a hotfix patch, but I haven't heard any complaints yet so probably won't be one.
Mine will be Arsenal
Whats Monaco money like?
Burscough if possible.
Gonna start unemployed and see how far I get!!
Yes and I'll be starting with PSG as I've never managed in France before and they are my favourite French side.
i havent a clue who or where i want to manage, this is not good
Mine going to be pompey with no money it going to be fun
Time to start my yearly Liverpool save.
Toronto FC for me, just in time for the big NACL QF match against LA Galaxy! (Not represented in-game mind! )
Either a championship team or trying to do the scottish hero achievement. Not sure what to choose yet.
Might do Gloucester if that whole issue with them returning to the same stadium after their first year bug has been fixed. If not might do Boston Utd instead. Or I might go and give Cork City a try, get them into the Irish Premier.
I'm torn between continuing a save I had started in December where I took over Bury in April 2012 (they were as good as down) and have worked very hard doing their summer break and was just about to start season two in L2, or as starting in Eastern Europe. Problem with the latter is that there is too much choice! Poland or Ukraine? Russia? Czechs? Serbs? And which club if I do?
Borrusia Dortmund for me :x
man utd, there is is supposedly a certain ginger i wish to use :P
hope bury got buffed a bit so they do freefall though
Matlock Town FC!
I want to start a toon army but I cannot find the hall_of_fame.dat location to put my hall of fame back because I have had to reinstall the game, I've been waiting nearly 45 mins for someone to reply to my thread. All these mods that are on and not one knows where it is, at this rate won't be starting a new game till Friday.
You'll do the Scottish achievement challenge in no time if you're Alloa!
Ok here we go Tonbridge Angels, nothing can go wrong here.
I was planning on starting a new save tonight, but seeing as all Bulgarians and Romanians are now wrongly considered foreign, I think I'll hang on for a bit.
Crewe for me, pass my way to Champions League
I've sorted it in the Editor but someone said Bulgarians and Romanians do in fact need work permits to work in the UK so I'm waiting for an answer on what the rules is with footballers before I save the changes.
It seems SI had it right and Bulgarians/Romanians do in fact need a work permit.
No sure if i should start a new one with Leeds or not.
im a villa fan was playing a eastleigh career save before but will now start again with the last patch.
I will be bromley work my way up the manager career ladder either with Bromley or progress my career with a bigger club
Cant decide yet if I should stop my Malaga save and start over, was thinking of starting a new game with Bilbao or schalke.
maybe people want to use players that would possible be as a good as they are in real life.
or use paul scholes
If/when I get Steam working, I'm gonna go as Exeter, Pumas de la UNAM or Fiorentina. First thing I'm do though is loading up a quick Southampton save to see Tadanari Lee in action...
I can't decide.... my Russian save just got killed. I already played Fulham, Russia (and Russian lower league), Athletic Bilbao, Catania on FM12.
Maybe thinking Polish league or something to try a smaller league. But don't want to sweat out the first few years, lazy
Chicago Fire here we go!
AFC Wimbledon
Will be starting my Cambridge Utd save now the squad and Stadium error look to have been fixed.
Why... Coz there my team
Raith Rovers in scottish division 1. but will have too use the editer first as a few keys transfers have been mised
starting my long term brentford game. always struggle as they are poor but its my local so it has to be done
Fulham, but i would not call it a long-term game, experimenting with 2-3 more saves before i start a long-term save
Starting again with Peterborough. Let's see how bad they've turned out now we've sold our best players and bought league two players.
If i do start again which is tempting as im hartlepool and havnt managed to get them promoted for the past 4 seasons ! i'm thinking the mighty Oxford united !
Might see if Norwich are any better and go again with them
Started unemployed - got a job offer two days later - with Hereford. Let the games begin.
Think I have about 40 leagues and roughly 60,000 players.
This is likely to be my final save until FM 2013.
rangers!!! jk im gonna start an inter milan game. try to save them from relegation lol
FC Kooteepee
Time for my win every continents Champions League trophy save. I'll probably load two leagues from every continent apart from Oceania where I will just load New Zealand, will either start unemployed or as a team in New Zealand, most likely unemployed.
I started a new long-term save yesterday as Wolfsburg. Simple reason is that they were the most active team in Europe during the transfer window and made some great signings. Also now have some exciting young prospects who can contribute in the first team from day one and will feel like my development projects.
Got a new computer recently so started a game with San Jose Earthquakes, with a fair few leagues running. Going great so far, 2nd in Western Conf, halfway though first season.
Gonna start a new one with Leicester City, take them to where they belong.
I'd like to say I'm starting a long-term game, but with my record, long-term means actually completing a season. There have been so many ideas that intrigued me, plus a couple long breaks due to computer issues and whatnot, I've started at least two dozen games between FM09 and FM11 and have only finished an entire season twice. Paralyzed by too many options, I guess.
I just started an earnest save for the first time in awhile (I've been just tooling around, mostly). I'd like to settle in with this one for awhile and not space out on it. I'm starting with Sheffield Wednesday. No particular reason, really.
Starting one with my team Reading . Jason Roberts uptop will be BEAST !
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Did have but probably starting as Torino now. Word of advice - try to sign a new keeper after 1st season because Jussi declines.
Started a new Celtic save after the update - a fan of course.
Going to stay with them for at least five years, then maybe move on.
Got an idea to start another save in a few months where I'd try and get a job as an u21 international manager/b-squad and try work my way as an unknown.
I am starting my proper journeymen save now, ALL of europe is playable and started unemployed with sunday league rep
started as Bela Krajina in the slovenia 2nd division!! wish me luck
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[QUOTE=Gripper;7640445]Which 'key transfers' were missed, please?
Pat Clarke from Dunfermline on loan too the end of the season (Deal done 1st January)
Ludivic Roy no longer at the club (Left In January)
Jason Thomson and Johnathan Stewart on loan from Hearts (This just happened last week but i unerstand it was too late to put in the update)
Malaga ? Time to end Barcelona and Real Madrid dominance ?
Starting one the weekend. As always I'd say I'll start unemployed with only Sunday League experience with England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Spain as active league then see where the game takes me... Normally settle with first or second club that hire me and take them to domination!!!
It is 8am on a Saturday morning and the wife has just left to take the kids to gymnastics training. I have 4 hours until her return...........MINE BEGINS NOWS!!!
Ok Finally decided and started. Using the England level 7 & 8 Mod and taking Woodford United, an 8th level English team. My starting payroll budget is $350 a week, and I'm predicted to finish in the middle of the bottom. Got my work cut out it seems.
I started unemployed and got the Gold Coast United job.
Apparently they've just had their A-League licence revoked in real life. Thank god that can't happen to me!
Going to go on Holiday until January 2012, and take a crap Icelandic team to domestic and european glory.
Unemployed for now let's see what happens...
Had a game as Kings Lynn but it stopped working thankfully the patch fixed it so I can carry on, 2024/2025 season currently and 1st year in Prem