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Freeware - LogParser.TFSQuery (Team Foundation Server)
- Querying and notification of recent work items
- Querying and notification of the most recent check-ins
- Querying and notification of check-outs which were over a time threshold
- Querying and notification of shelvesets (parked code) which expired a certain amount of time
- Querying and notification across linked work items
I could have used out of the box TFS functionality to provide some of the above, but some don't exist without reaching into the database. Therefore given I have LogParser.Email capabilities (ability to e-mail LogParser results) I decided to write a LogParser COM input format plugin for TFS to perform all the above.
Initially I thought I could provide the tool using the direct TFS web services, however after reading online documentation I decided against this approach, mostly because Microsoft haven't got any documentation, nor will guarentee they won't break it between releases. I additionally considered simply parsing the output from TF.EXE, however thought this was inelegant as a solution and prone to error and additionally wouldn't provide Work Item querying I was looking for.
I therefore decided to look at TFS APIs available in VB.Net. The available functionality is extensive and blogs like James Manning make it much easier to navigate various examples of using the APIs.
Below are details on the solution.
- Freeware with VB.NET 2005 source code included
- Can query Team Foundation Server (TFS) work items, check-ins (ChangeSets), check-outs (Pending ChangeSets), and Shelvesets. This has been tested on TFS 2005 - it may work on earlier or later versions.
- For work items supports either querying using existing Stored Queries, or using direct work item query language (WIQL). The queries can be run across a specific project, or multiple projects.
- For check-ins, check-outs and shelveset queries it reports the file details and associated work items. In addition supports a single or multiple project paths in the same query and the recursion level.
- Work items and check-ins (changesets) support iCheckPoint functionality to enable you to retrieve only the latest changes since the last query. Works on recording the time (UTC) and then querying for item greater than that time.
- The Work items query can retrieve specified fields (either in Stored Query, or WIQL) or return all fields available for that work item.
- Can query multiple different TFS projects, or even different TFS servers and combine the results. Internally used Dataset.Merge functionality.
- Work item query allows for LEFT JOIN-ing linked Work Items. You can specific the fields you want returned in the LEFT JOIN.
- To provide extra querying features Implements a number of custom columns (as per standard LogParser).
- Logs any errors to console and to EventLog.Application
- Supports Log Parser data types.
- Uses the ILogParserInputContext interface to enable LogParser COM interface to directly call. i.e, you can code against this plugin.
Download VB.NET source is included in download.
To install:
Assume that TeamFoundation*.dll (Team Explorer or Visual Studio) is installed in the GAC and working on your system. Stand-alone Team Explorer install instructions. Both Team Explorer and Visual Studio install the dlls into the GAC.
1. Copy the LogParser.TFSQuery folder to a location on your harddrive
2. Run the command .\LogParser.TFSQuery\InstalldotNETasCOM.bat.
3. Run your Log Parser query.
e.g. LogParser.exe -i:COM "select * From 'http://tfsserver:8080/TestProject/My Work Items'" -iProgId:Gluegood.LogParser.TFSQuery -o:DataGrid
A number of samples are available in the downloaded file in SampleQuery.bat
LogParser.exe -i:COM "select * From '{Path1}','{Path2}',..." -iProgId:Gluegood.LogParser.TFSQuery -iComParams:"iAllFields={TrueFalse},iCheckPoint={Path},iWIQL={WIQL query},iQueryCheckOuts={TrueFalse},iQueryShelvesets={TrueFalse}, iRecursive={TrueFalse},iWorkItemLinksQuery={TrueWIQL queryField list}"
- {Pathx} - a formatted path that adheres to the following standard.
- Work items – {server:port}/{project}/{query} e.g. 'http://tfsserver:8080/ProjectTest/All Work Items' or 'tfsserver/*/All Work Items'. Expect the 3 slashes as delimiters even when item isn't required..
- Check-ins, Check-outs, shelvesets - {server:port}/{path} e.g. 'http://tfsserver:8080/$/ProjectTest/Release' or 'tfsserver/$/'
Supports multiple Paths as long as they are deliminated with a comma (,).
- iAllFields - Ignore the columns defined in the query (or WIQL) and retrieve all columns. Default = False
- iCheckPoint – Path to a checkpoint file. Default is no checkpoint.
- iWIQL – WIQL query. Overrides any stored queries specified. Defaults to no iWIQL Hint: If using from command line any commas must be escaped with \u002c.
- iQueryCheckOuts - Query the path specified looking for CheckOuts. If iQueryCheckOuts and iQueryShelvesets are not provided, or both false, then assume querying for Check-ins. Default is false.
- iQueryShelvesets - Query the path specified looking for Shelvesets. If iQueryCheckOuts and iQueryShelvesets are not provided, or both false, then assume querying for Check-ins. Default is false.
- iRecursive – defines wether to recusively scan subfolders, or stay within the current folder/project defined. Default is true.
- iWorkItemLinksQuery – Defines whether to LEFT JOIN all linked Work Items. Extra columns returned will be prefixed with 'LogParserTFSRelated'. Setting to True will return Linked Work Item Id, Type, State, and Title. Can additionally define your own WIQL (with only SELECT and FROM clause) or a field list. Default is "" (not enabled).
Columns returned (Work items)
LogParserTFSServer – Server in which the query is being executed.
LogParserTFSProject – TFS Project which this query has been executed
LogParserTFSQuery – TFS Stored Query, or WIQL query
LogParserTFSWorkItemId – Work Item Id for this item
LogParserRecordNumber – Record number for this item in the query.
Columns returned (Check-ins / changesets)
LogParserTFSServer – Server in which the query is being executed.
LogParserRecordNumber – Record number for this item in the query.
ChangeType – Type of change
User – User who checked in this item.
Date – Date that this check-in occurred.
Comment – Comment associated to this check-in
Path – File path (server side) of this check-in
WorkItemId – Associated Work Item Ids. Will display multiple seperated by a comma.
ChangeSetId – ChangeSet Id.
PolicyOverrideComment – Policy override comment if entered.
PolicyFailures – Number of policy failures
Columns returned (Check-outs / pendingsets)
LogParserTFSServer – Server in which the query is being executed.
LogParserRecordNumber – Record number for this item in the query.
ChangeType – Type of change
User – User who checked out this item.
Date – Date that this check-out occurred.
Path – File path (server side) of this check-out
PendingSetId – PendingSet Id.
Computer – Computer in which this check-out was conducted against.
Columns returned (Shelvesets)
LogParserTFSServer – Server in which the query is being executed.
LogParserRecordNumber – Record number for this item in the query.
ChangeType – Type of change
User – User who shelved this item.
Date – Date that this shelve occurred.
Path – File path (server side) of this shelve
PendingSetId – PendingSet Id.
Computer – Computer in which this Shelve occurred from.
Name – Name of this shelveset
CheckPoint, WIQL and store.Query
When using iCheckPoint with Work Items I had to modifying the supplied stored query or WIQL provided with an additional clause returning the latest items based on System.ChangeDate. I ran into a problem using {string}.replace to look for the existence of existing WHERE clause as it's case sensitive and I didn't think I could rely on the case, therefore I ended up using Regex.Replace thanks to this. In addition because the CheckPoint stores date and time I had to modify the way I executed the query from the standard store.Query approach listed in many examples to a more obscure method using the Query object and setting the dayPrecision flag.
Performance and WorkItems
There is a lot of documentation stating that performance is degraded if you query every work item field beyond those returned in the WIQL query (as TFS needs to round trip to the server) , therefore I ensure that when returning fields (without the iAllFields setting) I only reference those fields specified. In addition I bumped up the PageSize to 200.
Changeset, Pendingset and Shelveset and querying
There seems to be some complexity around this (using APIs QueryPendingSets, QueryShelvedChanges, and QueryHistory) and I conducted some research and found this entry helpful in providing directions. In addition I leaned heavily on James Manning's site and numerous examples provided e.g. Shelvesets
Querying Linked WorkItems and Performance
The easy way would have been to return the Linked Work Item details on each Work Item that had a link. However this performs terribly (as multiple trips are made for every Work Item link). Another better way I found was to
- Add the RelatedLinkCount field to the initial WIQL query (to determine if there were any links),
- Then loop through the WorkItem.Links collection (performance hit on this one and doesn't seem to be a way around this) determining if any are WorkItems and then storing any found WorkItem link ids into a BatchReadParameter.
- Then after cycling all Work Items I then execute a new WIQL store.query using the BatchReadParameterCollection (a list of Work Item Ids).
- Then I link the original Work Item dataset to the Linked Work Item dataset by moving through all the DataTable.rows. There is a few tricks around this code to support when a Work Item cannot be referenced due to permissions.
GACUTIL and REGASM
My current approach with LogParser COM Input addins was to always install them in the GAC as I mistakenly thought that LogParser when reading the COM components both needed the item registered and installed in the GAC. I realised with this project that I really didn't want to have to get the entire TeamFoundation assemblies in the GAC and played around with the install and I made 2 discoveries.
a) the TeamFoundation assemblies appear to already be installed in the GAC (if you have Visual Studio Installed, or Team Explorer) and
b) that using REGASM with the /codebase (as per MSDN - The Codebase entry specifies the file path for an assembly that is not installed in the global assembly cache) means you don't need to install into the GAC.
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Health and fitness is eternal, just like style. So what do you get when you combine the two?
Trainers change all the time and fitness wear is getting more and more trend focused, but developing wearable technology is now ticking all the style boxes.
You have more than likely heard of the fitbit, which is a popular market leader at the moment and their new Fitbit Alta (released in March) is what review site 'Wearable' is calling the best for style.
If you aren't so sure about all of this wearable and technology stuff, watch this add, it puts it in to practice.
So you tap the band and you can see how many steps you've done, how many calories are being burnt, how long you slept for and how many minutes you have exercised basically.
Then, you can connect with other Fitbit users to help motivate each other and such like.
Another great feature is that it keeps you moving, if you have been sitting for too long it will buzz to remind you to do some walking, the aim is to get you to do 250 steps each hour.
The Alta band also works with your phone so you get calendar, text, and call notifications.
More good news is that it has a long battery life meaning you can wear it up to 5 full days and nights without needing a charge.
You can also get different accessory bands to change your style.
"Use Luxe leather and metal bands to take your Fitbit Alta tracker from day to night and work to weekend."
Annnnnd.. you can learn more about your sleep, the Alta also silently wakes you up by vibrating.
If you want a wearable with a bit more bling and glam, try the Swarovski Slake Activity Crystal Set by Misfit:
Fully faceted crystal in a Swarovski-exclusive cut Smart button enabled to control connected household devices
White LED progress and time display
Automatically tracks steps, distance, calories, and light and restful sleep
Non-charging, replaceable battery lasts up to 4 months.
If you want more accessory options and ways to wear, then have a look at the Misfit Ray Fitness and Sleep Monitor , you can wear it with different bracelets or as a necklace!
Also, you can get it in the popular rose gold colour:
If you are looking something but you are on a budget, check out the Xiaomi Mi Band MiBand Smart Bracelet which also counts your steps, monitors sleep, wakes you up and counts calories.
If you want to focus more on exercise, a better option would be the 'Moov Now' which enables you to:
Analyse and coach your form
Measure your motion
Count reps
With a battery life of up to 6 months
All while doing that, it talks to you, motivating and helping with your workout.
It is actually rocket science that amkes the Moov wearble work , the 9-axis Omni Motion™ sensor captures & analyzes your motion in 3D.
And it is available in more than one colour!
Moov Now Wearable Audio Coach - Blizzard White
A contemporary, helpful and stylish accessory that also helps you achieve your goals and stay healthy? That is certainly an investment!
Jess xx
A contemporary, helpful and stylish accessory that also helps you achieve your goals and stay healthy? That is certainly an investment!

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Bone and Blood – Halloween costumes
In what may not be the biggest surprise to regular readers of this column, Halloween is hands down my absolute favorite holiday. I love a good spectacle (spooktacle?) and to me the week before Halloween is far more exciting than the build up to Christmas. What will everyone wear? What will I wear? How much of this getup should be hand-crafted and how much should be pre-fab? I usually start plotting the costume months in advance, but get so hung up on details and process that I end up panicking and slapping something together last minute anyhow.
The sheer number of possibilities is both overwhelming and thrilling – which makes it all the more disappointing when people trot out Native American costumes, or blackface or the standard sexy fill-in-the-blanks. Aside from being problematic, a lot of these getups are rather bland and would not even startle one ghost, let alone frighten off a horde of restless spirits. For, lest we forget, this is the true reason for the season. Bearing this in mind, here follows a list of some off-the-beaten-path monsters, along with the bare minimum of supplies one can purchase in the next day and a half or so (ahem).
1) Can't seem to tear yourself away from appropriating elements of Native culture? Then why not go as the Wendigo: a voracious elk-human hybrid of Algonquin and Inuit lore? According to most accounts, a human who partakes of cannibalism (out of desperation due to famine or other calamity) runs the risk of transforming into a Wendigo. Monstrous and emaciated, the Wendigo is doomed to roam the earth in search of more and more human flesh to blunt its insatiable hunger.
At one point anthropologists believed this legend had its roots in a genuine mental disorder that afflicted real life cannibals, dubbed "Wendigo psychosis." Basically, the idea is that human flesh is very similar to Pringles – once you pop, you can't stop; a person afflicted with Wendigo psychosis will continue to try to eat human meat though alternative foods are available (even the salt and vinegar Pringles!). The existence of Wendigo psychosis has thus far not stood up to the barest scientific scrutiny, but I don't think it is completely far-fetched: after all, wicked bad prion diseases like kuru exist. The strong taboo against cannibalism likely originated from some crazy incident in times past.
Last-minute supply list: antlers, fake blood
Difficulty: easy
Cost: $$
Fright rating, in spiders: a Daddy Longlegs
2) One of my personal favorites comes from Struwwelpeter, which is a collection of illustrated didactic stories written with the intent to terrify German children. There's a boy who decides to stop eating his soup, and he shrivels up and dies. Another girl plays with matches and burns to her death. Santa actually dunks a couple of kids in a well of ink as punishment for teasing a dark-skinned child (another variant of blackface, so we'll skip that idea while costume-sourcing). By far the story forever etched into most German children's imaginations concerns the fate of Little Suck-a-Thumb, in which a tailor runs around with GIANT SCISSORS snipping off the thumbs of little children. The punishment seems a touch disproportionate to the severity of the crime, no?
(Just a nice, wholesome instructional video for children!)
Last-minute supply list: waistcoat with tails, red tights, novelty-size scissors
Difficulty: medium
Cost: $$$
Fright rating: a spider you spotted earlier in your house but can no longer find
3) While doing my habitual research on haunted dolls, I came across this gem of a website, exposing the little-known topic of Womb Ghosts. One such example can be seen in this un-retouched photo – that giant lens flare is helpfully highlighting the spot where the womb ghost inhabits.
According to the paranormal task force investigator who creates and curates this treasure trove of womb ghost information, it turns out ghosts can inhabit a good many areas of the body outside the womb. "Anal ghosts" can infect one's colon or rectum. For those afflicted by such spiritual maladies, ghost-removing enemas are available. The site is bafflingly vague, however, about how to extricate womb ghosts (it does caution against douching).
Men, too, can be affected by such phenomena: "[a]ccording to scientists, some fathers-to-be are so in tune with their expectant partners they actually experience a phantom pregnancy." Now I had heard of that term before, it is true; it had never once occurred to me to interpret the word "phantom" so literally. Clearly, this is why we need the paranormal task force investigative team around to connect those dots.
There are also ball ghosts; the site features a sad case study of a man whose deceased wife haunted his testicles. Again, the site creator remains unclear about how to remove ball ghosts, but I imagine the remedy is for sale somewhere.
Last-minute supply list: Stick N' Click lights ($9.99)
Difficulty: VERY easy
Cost: $
Fright rating: a pug wearing a Spiderman costume
4. This next idea for a couples costume comes from Russian folk tales: the Baba Yaga and her Hut on Chicken Legs. Baba Yaga features in a lot of tales, and often tries to eat children, though more often than not she ends up helping them with their various tasks. She flies around on a giant mortar and pestle, which is like the recumbent bike version of a witches' broom.
The Hut just kind of hangs out in the woods on its chicken legs, until someone approaches and shouts at it, ordering the hut to turn and face her. The Hut then screams bloody murder as it turns, shrieking inchoately at the intruder, until it shudders to a stop. Its windows are blank eyes, and it is usually surrounded by some crazy fence fashioned of bones and flame-bearing skulls. It is my dream home.
Last minute supply list: Baba Yaga: peasant dress, head scarf, pool noodle (mortar), round tub (pestle), baby doll, fake blood
Chicken Hut: 1/5 of a chicken suit, large cardboard box
Difficulty: medium-hard
Cost: $$ / $ (though really you should consider doing an even cost share if this is a couples outfit)
Fright rating: a photo of a spider popping up in your Facebook feed
5. Finally, my most favorite monster is Erzsebet Bathory (in English commonly known as "Elizabeth"), one of the more wicked real-life inspirations for vampire lore. Here is a long and incredibly gripping account of the history behind the myths surrounding Bathory. According to legend, she was known for trapping servant girls in her castle, slaughtering them and bathing in their blood to keep her skin pure and supple. Though there's not much evidence to back up the claim of blood-bathing, by all accounts Bathory did pretty much anything and everything else to torture these poor girls, and (almost) got away with it due to her status as a high-born lady.
Testimony at her trial included accounts of torture involving jabbing girls with needles, smearing them in honey and throwing them outside before hives of bees. She liked to stick oiled parchment between their fingers and toes and light the parchment on fire, turning the poor girls into candles. Often, she'd have them lashed hundreds of times and tossed out and bleeding in the snow. Occasionally she would cut off bits of the girls and force feed them their own flesh … and the list of rejected Hostel scene pitches goes on, ad nauseum. Her kill count has been put as anywhere between 30 – 650, with the "official" number considered to be closer to 80.
Last minute supply list: Elizabethan gown, neck ruff, 1 or 2 gallons of fake blood
Difficulty: hard
Cost: $$$$
Fright rating: this National Geographic video of a Goliath spider eating a mouse
Hopefully, this resource guide to monsters helps you step up your costume game, and also ward off any ghosts that may be haunting you. I have also created a few helpful Polyvore sets for all of these if you require further guidance. Have yourself a happy and safe Hallow's Eve!
Kim Le is a writer and shiftless gadabout who hails from the distant wheat fields of Kansas. Obsessions include sustainability, yurts and extreme DIY. Also, she makes sculptures out of food, mostly potatoes. She never updates her blog at http://badmetaphor.net.


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25 Years After DPN, Deaf STILL CAN'T?
A special message from Jerry Covell:
Next month, I will be participating in a 25th anniversary of the Deaf President Now protest at Gallaudet University where I was one of the student leaders that protested against the Board of Trustee to prove the world that a qualified deaf person can become a president of Gallaudet University and that "deaf people can do anything but hear". Yet, a few weeks ago a deplorable incident occurred at a school for the deaf…..now we are basically being told "deaf people cannot do anything". Such oppression and bigotry actually happened at the Illinois School for the Deaf (ISD) by a hearing principal and certain hearing co-workers on January 17, 2013. It is just unbelievable that this oppression is still happening in this day and age.
Please spread the words and share it.
February 12, 2013 at 1:21 pm
What?! Those schmuck hearing professionals for saying those discriminating and prejudicing words against us from my own childhood school. It make me want to vomit!!
February 12, 2013 at 1:50 pm
Hi You can look at this webcam and check its schedule Thumb up(ASL)
http://webcast.gallaudet.edu/ Lloyd
Sent from my iPad2 Lloyd M Ballinger email@example.com


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One of the peculiarities of the Japanese language is that while it's does have a plural form for nouns it almost never gets used, mainly because the context that speaker is in dictates if they mean more than one of something. This gets a little tricky when it comes to reading haiku because the reader isn't in the same physically present context as the speaker. And this haiku by Yosano Buson is a good example of it:
Ikanobori/ kinou no sora no aridokoro
Kites Yesterday's sky's having place.
Kites have been in Japan since the 600s when the were imported from China and in the past they were used in many ways as symbols of good luck and talismans for good fortune. Nowadays, we tend to think of kites as something children enjoy, but in the Edo era adults enjoyed them as well. Besides flying them as omens, kite fighting was something that people pursed with enthusiasm as well. Kites became so popular that the Edo government finally banned them except during the o-shougatsu holiday (the few days before and after New Years Day).
The banning of kites caused a problem for haiku. Kites as a "kigo" (season word) were listed as something done in spring, but with what is the now metropolis of Tokyo having forced the flying of them into the New Years' holiday, the "kigo" had to accommodate that as well. Any seasonal reference books for haiku ('Saijiki") are in five volumes, four for the seasons and the extra one for the New Years period which is the most important religious holiday of the Japanese calendar. The old "Saijiki" I have has a double listing for kites, one in spring and the other for the New Year. However, the practice now is to only have kites listed as something done in spring.
Understanding the history of kites in Japan is important in the context of reading plurals into this haiku because, as anyone who lives long enough in Japan learns, there is a right date and a wrong date for everything. My wedding, for example, ending up being on a Tuesday instead of the more preferable Saturday because of it being a more auspicious day, or as it got explained to me "Saturday is no good because it is a bad Buddha day."
Having good days and bad days makes religious things a bit more communal because people will always do things on good days. So, if someone wants to fly a kite as an omen of something then they would necessarily do it on a good day and not a bad one, meaning that there will be more than one person out flying kites on the good days. Since kites could only be flown during a short period of the year in Edo, probably not longer than a week, then there will be hordes of people out flying them before the ban kicks in again,
The point I am trying to make is that it is hard to read this haiku and not think of there being more than one kite up in the sky and that Buson was actually implying the plural here. The Nihon Daisaijiki, a large full color "saijiki" published about ten years ago, discusses this haiku and states this about the number of kites:
This doesn't have to necessarily refer to the whole of the sky. It indicates the scene of a part of the sky that has one, or more likely, several kites in it.
Above is the picture that is included in this book under the heading of kites. Because is a wood block print, you can't say that it is of the whole sky, but it is a part of the sky that has several kites floating in it.
Even when a commentator wants to you read this as being about only one kite, they have to couch it in terms of other kites in the sky. A book titled "Haiku Daikan" published by Meiji Shoin explains it like this:
There aren't a large number of kites flying in the sky. In the very least, there are no other kites nearby this one, to follow this instruction to its obvious conclusion, there is a solitary one afloat.
Asking the reader to follow this instruction is a dead give away that the writer automatically assumes that the reader is reading the plural for kites.
I don't find the argument for a single, or actually separated, kite very compelling because it makes the image a very personal one, which is exactly how at the end this commentator reads the symbolism of the kites:
It seems that the loneliness of human existence is suggested with this kite, sadness and at the same time a kind of fond remembrance is to be felt in this expression.
Whenever we feel fondness and sadness at the same time it means we are becoming nostalgic about something. It's easy to understand how Buson would get nostalgic about his childhood from a kite, but I'd argue that the experience of flying a kite rather than watching one is what would more likely trigger the flood of emotion that would bring the bittersweet memories argued for above. I think it is next to impossible to read that Buson is flying this kite because I don't think he would be able to make the topographical description of them being in the same spot as they were yesterday if he was.
The commentator in the Daisaijiki makes this conclusion about the haiku
Everything is calm and peaceful, indeed, there is a deepness to the feeling of the mild spring. Getting that as a scene, the impression in a person's mind too will surely be similar.
This reading has the scene influencing the feelings in the writer, it's a lovely spring day and people are enjoying it by going out with their kites and the scene has Buson feeing relaxed and secure about life. The immediate problem with this reading is that there aren't any emotional markers in the haiku to expresses the "feeling" that the commentator mentions. In haiku, particles of speech are how the writer attaches personal emotions onto images, but in this haiku Buson didn't use any. If he was feeling the mild spring so deeply you'd expect that there would be a particle used somewhere to express it.
Japanese is my second language, and, so sure, there might be a nuance in this haiku that I am unable to catch because I'm not a native speaker, but for me the lack of a particle shows that Buson is being intellectual rather than emotional here. Saying that the kites are in the same spot as yesterday is not a visceral reaction to the scene, rather it is a measured logical one.
Therefore, the symbolism for me becomes a little more generic and less personal. Instead of being a privatized experience, I tend to see this as a universal one. Everyone has flown a kite or watched kites in flight sometime during their life. Besides the universality, kite flying is also a timeless enterprise. How long have people been flying them? Although the popularity of kites wane, somebody somewhere still enjoys flying them. The kite designs are timeless as well, kites patterned after those made in the Edo era still fly as true today as they did back then, and I'm sure that the even older designs will still be able take to the air.
So, with 'timelessness' as the optimum idea in my mind:
Kites.... in the spot of sky they were in yesterday.
The problem with this literal translation is that the Japanese language doesn't need adjectives to fill scenes for the reader because connotations between words implies scenes that don't need to be openly stated. Unfortunately, in English, we need adjectives to paint the scene, and since we use sound as a way to imply emotions, adjectives are also the means of achieving syntax as well.
Kites aloft.... in the same exact spot of clear sky they wafted in yesterday.
All I have done is put in some adjectives around the images and use a verb that adds a descriptive element rather than a nondescript one. I don't think I have impinged in on what is in the original is by doing this.


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We have our one destination sort of travel out of the way with Stone Mountain now and we are headed directly to New Jersey. We are 874 miles south west from our destination, Keyport NJ. That should take us about 9 days at our 200 miles and 2 night stay pace. We planned to arrive at our friends' house on Tuesday or Wednesday the 16th or 17th of May.
Our trip to NJ will take us on I 85 to Charlotte NC and then pick up I 77 to Roanoke VA where we get on I 81. We are on I 81 up to I 78 in PA to NJ and then I 287 and then the Garden State Parkway to Keyport NJ. We made only 3 stops and arrived on the 14th a couple days early.
The following pictures are the highlights of our travel from Stone Mountain GA to Keyport NJ:
|South Carolina first stop
|We took a 3 mile hike in the State Park
|We took the living history farm trail.
|Along the trail was this picturesque dam
|The dam was built by one of the depression era works projects
|This historic registered site is the building where the
workers stayed while building the dam
|There was a lot of this rock along the path. Patty picked up some but we are still not sure what it is!
|Part of the trail leading to the old farm
|Patty getting food for the horses. They had an electric fence around
the field so the horses couldn't get close enough to feed them by hand.
|The old farm has a caretaker that lives on the property in this old house.
A giveaway though is the central air on the side of the house.
|Our 2nd stop at a KOA in Virginia.
|Time for laundry
|We went into the historic town of Lexington VA for exploring and dinner.
|Our last stop before NJ was at the Charcoal Hearth Camping area
in the Pine Grove State Park in Pennsylvania.
|This campground was electric only so we had to take on water before we parked at our site. It was slow going and took about 40 minutes to fill our 50 gallon tank!
|Our site at the PA state park.
|On Sunday the 14th of May we arrived in NJ in the cold rain.
Just after we set up this rainbow settled in over our site here.
We will be here until the 31st of May and then head up to Buffalo NY for a few days.
Stay Tuned!


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S-RAMP/SOA UI RequirementsEric Wittmann Jul 11, 2012 11:01 AM
As part of the work we're doing with the S-RAMP repository implementation, we want to create a user interface. The scope and audience for this user interface is important, so I'm looking for thoughts that can be ultimately formed into a high level set of requirements.
One obvious decision we need to make: what is the scope of the UI?
This work is being done within the umbrella of SOA Governance, so it seems likely that the UI should focus primarily or even exclusively on Governance related activities. Of course, Governance means different things to different people. We need to navigate that landscape to arrive at a set of features that are cohesive, make sense, and provide value to the audience.
Another decision we need to make: who are the primary users of the UI?
This decision is similar but slightly different than the Scope decision above. Perhaps we can choose the audience for the tool, which might narrow or focus the scope discussion.
Initial Thoughts
I like to think about User Interfaces starting at a high level "activities" perspective. Consider Eclipse, for example. The Eclipse IDE has the concept of Perspectives, which group sets of features into a high level logical structure. Examples include Java Development, Debugging, Team Synchronizing, etc. These Perspectives identify the high level activities being performed, and also group together the features and UI views needed to perform them.
Following are some initial ideas for high level activities that might be useful in a S-RAMP/SOA UI. This should serve as a starting point for a discussion about what other high level behavior the UI should provide. Additionally, we can dive a bit deeper into each and list out the specific features needed.
High Level Activities
Repository Browsing
I think the most obvious requirement is the ability to browse the S-RAMP repository. This includes simple navigation through the artifacts in the repository, along with more advanced searching/filtering. I can imagine an initial implementation that works like http://search.maven.org/.
- Hierarchical browsing of S-RAMP tree (e.g. http://search.maven.org/#browse)
- Searching of the S-RAMP repository (e.g. http://search.maven.org/#search)
- Download binary artifact content
Artifact Analysis
A feature of SOA Governance that would be immediately useful to users is analysis of their artifacts. We can do a variety of analysis, including:
- Artifact validity (syntax, semantics, best practices, etc)
- Dependency analysis
- Trending (what artifacts are changing most frequently)
Repository Management
If the Repository Browsing activity above is focused primarily on finding artifacts, there should also be a part of the UI that is responsible for adding and updating artifacts.
- Add (upload) new artifacts to the repository
- Update repository artifacts
- Delete repository artifacts
SOA Modelling
Once we are properly handling everything in the repository, it would be good to be able to model new service candidates.


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Sarabjit Singh
Sarabjit Singh
|1963 or 1964[1]
Bhikhiwind, Punjab, India
|[2] (aged 49)2 May 2013
|Espionage and terrorism
|Criminal penalty
|Death sentence
Sarabjit Singh (also spelled Sarabjeet Singh; 1963 or 1964 – 2 May 2013[2]) (alleged to be Manjit Singh by Pakistan[1][3][4]) was an Indian national convicted of terrorism and spying by a Pakistani court.[5][6] He was tried and convicted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan for a series of bomb attacks in Lahore and Faisalabad that killed 14 bystanders in 1990.[7] Sarabjit claimed he was a farmer who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border, three months after the bombings.[8][9][10][11][12][13]
After a brief trial in the Lahore High Court (later directed to the Supreme Court), he was condemned and sentenced to death in 1991, but the sentence was repeatedly postponed by the Government of Pakistan.[14] While in prison at Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore in April 2013, he was attacked by fellow inmates and died six days later at the Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Questions have been raised about the prosecution
- 1 Background and family
- 2 Arrest and prosecution
- 3 After conviction
- 4 Death
- 5 Aftermath
- 6 Published accounts
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 External links
Background and family[edit]
Singh was born in Bhikhiwind, located along the Indo-Pakistani border in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, India.[15] He was fond of wrestling and taking care of rare pigeons.[16] He worked as a farmer on other's fields.[16] He was married to Sukhpreet Kaur and had two daughters Swapandeep and Poonam Kaur. His sister, Dalbir Kaur, was working towards his release since 1991 till his death in 2013.[17][18]
However, another woman named Baljinder Kaur disputed Dalbir's relation to Singh and claimed to be Singh's real sister. According to Baljinder, Singh was the third eldest of ten siblings and Dalbir was not their sister, but had happened to know Singh since 1989; "Dalbir Kaur assured us she had right links and would struggle for the release of Sarabjit on some conditions. We trusted her and let her pursue the matter, only to be pushed out of the picture." Dalbir added that she had nothing to prove her relation with Singh except offering to undergo a DNA test. She also claimed that Singh's real brothers, Charanjit and Harbhajan, were not allowed to light his pyre at his funeral and were "pushed back" by people at the cremation ground. Commenting further on Dalbir, she added: "People have been coming to the fore (after Singh's death) for cheap publicity. They were nowhere when I alone struggled for his release."[19]
Arrest and prosecution[edit]
Sarabjeet was caught on an unmarked Indo-Pakistani border area in Pakistan and arrested by the Pakistan Rangers near Kasur.[18] Singh and his supporters claimed that the arrest was a case of mistaken identity and that he was only a poor farmer who was drunk and had strayed over the border.[17] His sister said that the family launched a search but could not find any clue to his whereabouts for nine months.[18] After a year they received a letter from Singh, informing them that he had been arrested in Pakistan as Manjit Singh, as he had no identification papers and had been charged by the Lahore police in the bombings.[20] He was convicted of spying and carrying out the bombings and was given the death penalty.[17]
Some sources say that he was initially arrested on charges of illegally crossing the India-Pakistan border. But after eight days, the Pakistani police charged him with involvement in the 1990 terror blasts at Faisalabad and Lahore.[21] The authorities claimed that he was 'Manjit Singh' and had been responsible for the four blasts which killed 14 people, and had been arrested while returning to India after carrying out the bombings.[citation needed] He was accused of working for the Indian Research and Analysis Wing intelligence agency.[22] He subsequently confessed on camera to the bombings.[23]
It was later reported that a Manjit Singh was later apprehended in Canada,[24] and later in India.[25][26]
Death sentence[edit]
In 1991 Singh was given the death sentence under Pakistan's Army Act.[27] His sentence was upheld by the High Court Division and later by the Appeallate Division.[20] The Supreme Court dismissed a petition to review his death sentence in March 2006 as Singh's lawyers failed to appear for the hearing.[28] Singh said that his appeal had been dismissed by the Pakistan Supreme Court only because of lack of interest by his former lawyer.[29]
Issues with prosecution[edit]
Singh had been arrested on the night of 30 August 1990 at the Kasur border for illegally crossing the Indo-Pakistani border. Eight days after, the police implicated him in the terrorist bombings.[21] Burney also pointed out that the same magistrate had recorded the witness statements in all the four bombings, of which one had taken place at Faisalabad and the remaining three at Lahore, although the police investigations involved four different police stations and two different districts. He said four different magistrates should have recorded the statements. None of the statements recorded in front of the magistrate were taken under oath. Singh had been paraded before the witnesses in the absence of the magistrate, and the police had informed the witnesses that he was the bomber. This was confirmed by Salim's testimony.[21]
A British lawyer, Jas Uppal,[28] campaigning for his release, pointed to several problems with the prosecution in the trial.[30] These problems included:
- His identity was never verified or proved in court and no forensic evidence was provided at his trial to link him to the bomb attacks.
- The trial was conducted in English, which Singh does not speak or understand, and no interpreter was provided.
- There were allegations that he was tortured in custody and forced to confess.
- The trial was "fast-tracked".
- The main witness repeatedly changed his version of events.
After conviction[edit]
On 26 April 2008, the key witness Shaukat Salim[31][32] retracted his statement during an interview with journalists. Salim's father and other relatives had been killed in the bombing. In court Salim testified that Singh had planted the bomb but later said that he made that statement under pressure from the police.[21] Singh's lawyer, Abdul Rana Hamid, said that Salim's statements had no legal standing as they were never recorded in court.[21]
Five of his mercy petitions were rejected by the courts and the President of Pakistan, but in 2008 the government nonetheless put off Singh's execution indefinitely.[33]
Presidential pardon[edit]
On 27 June 2012, both Pakistani and international media reported President Asif Ali Zardari signed a document sent by the interior ministry of Pakistan commuting Singh's death sentence to life in prison.[27][34] A life sentence in Pakistan generally lasts 14 years.[9] Singh, having spent 22 years in jail, was therefore to be released. The news of his pardon and imminent release initiated celebrations in his hometown. The Indian foreign minister also issued a statement of appreciation to Islamabad for the gesture.[8]
This drew a storm of condemnation from Islamic groups Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Da'wah. Later that day, after media agencies in both Pakistan and India had reported on a commuted sentence and pending release for Singh, the Pakistani government announced that the name of the prisoner to be released would be Surjeet Singh, not Sarabjit Singh.[35][36]
Five hours later the Pakistani government issued a statement denying the reports and holding the media responsible for the confusion. They announced that the release order had been for another prisoner, Surjeet Singh, who was pardoned in 1989.[8][35][37] Sarabjit's family condemned the incident as a "cruel joke".[38][39]
Singh filed a new mercy appeal to the President of Pakistan on the 65th independence day of that country.[40]
Efforts for release[edit]
On 23 August 2005, Singh's case was taken up in both houses of the Indian Parliament, where the government was asked to take action for his release.[citation needed]
In March 2008, Singh's family went to Pakistan for his scheduled execution. They met several prominent Pakistani politicians, including former Prime minister Nawaz Sharif to appeal for his release. Sharif said, "After seeing the plight of the members of Sarabjit's family who have come to Pakistan, any person can feel the pain they are going through." However, Sharif added that he should be released on the condition that India would send him back to Pakistan if further evidence was found against him.[9]
The Indian External Affairs Minister K. Natwar Singh took up Sarabjit Singh's case with the Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan and urged him to convey Delhi's hope that Islamabad would treat the matter as a humanitarian issue.[9]
Mercy petitions[edit]
After his conviction in 1991, several mercy petitions were filed by Singh's lawyers. The fifth petition was filed on 28 May 2012 along with 100,000 signatures collected from India. None of the mercy petitions were granted.
Free Sarabjit campaign[edit]
In 2009 British lawyer Jas Uppal started an online campaign "freesarabjitsingh.com"[41] to highlight the case and request human rights groups to intervene on his behalf.[28] Awais Sheikh, Singh's Pakistani lawyer, supported the campaign and provided his services free of charge.[28]
Bollywood actor and activist Raza Murad also campaigned for his release. As of June 2012, he had collected 138,226 signatures in support of Singh's release. After the Pakistani government's reversal regarding his release in June 2012, Murad intensified his 'Free Sarabjit' campaign.[42]
In April 2008, a group of Pakistani students organised a march seeking withdrawal of all official moves to pardon Singh.[43][44]
Conversion to Islam[edit]
According to Surjeet Singh, who upon reaching India confessed that he had been a spy, Sarabjit and another Indian detainee, Kirpal, had converted to Islam in the hope of getting "concessions" from jail authorities. "Sarabjit is known as Sarfaraz while Kirpal's Muslim name was Mohammad Deen. They embraced Islam for concessions from jail authorities and from the Pakistan government, but it didn't happen," he said.[22] The claim of Sarabjit's conversion was denied by Sarabjit's sister, who insisted: "This is not true at all. Sarabjit was a Gursikh, is a Gursikh and will remain a Gursikh. He has kept photos of Sikh gurus in jail and a Sikh religious book. He regularly recites from that book."[45]
Singh was attacked on 26 April 2013 at about 4:30 pm in the Central Jail Lahore (Kot Lakhpat jail), allegedly by other prisoners, with bricks, sharp metal sheets, iron rods and blades. He was admitted to Jinnah Hospital, Lahore in critical condition with severe head injuries, in a coma, with a broken backbone. He was placed on a ventilator.[46] The exact circumstances of the attack and the number of attackers have been differently reported. Some sources have indicated that there were six assailants whereas others have indicated two.[24] Some indicated that he was assaulted in his cell; others indicated that the attack took place when he was brought out of his cell for an hour-long break.[24] According to his sister, the attack on Singh was pre-planned and the jail authorities were involved. His wife, sister and two daughters were allowed to visit him in the hospital.[47][48][49][50]
Singh had been threatened after Afzal Guru was executed in India in February 2013 over his role in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack case.[51] Some sources had indicated that the attack was planned after Guru's execution.[52][53] The Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, termed the attack as "very sad".[54][55] On 29 April 2013, India appealed to Pakistan to release Sarabjit Singh on humanitarian grounds or at least allow him to be provided medical treatment in India, but these were repeatedly rejected by Pakistan.[56][57] Appeals by lawyers were also filed with the Supreme Court of Pakistan to send Singh for medical treatment to the UK or outside Pakistan to save his life.[58]
On 1 May 2013 he was declared brain dead by doctors at Jinnah Hospital, but Pakistani authorities refused to give a statement. His sister and family returned to India. His sister said that the doctors attending to her brother were not being honest with them and she suspected foul play. She also remarked to having seen ink on his left thumb and that the Pakistani doctors had been evading questions.[59][60]
On 2 May 2013, he was reported to have died at 12:45 am local time in Lahore, when he was removed from the ventilator support after his condition worsened towards the middle of the night.[2][61] His body was brought to India by a special aircraft the same evening.[20] Indian doctors claimed that the second postmortem revealed that vital organs were missing from his body.[62] An autopsy also revealed that his skull was broken into two pieces.[63] They were, however, waiting for the report of the first postmortem conducted in Pakistan.
The Government of Punjab, India declared a three-day period of mourning over Singh's death and announced it would pay his descendants a compensation of Rs 10,000,000.[64] A biopic titled 'Sarbjit' directed by Omung Kumar starring Randeep Hooda, Richa Chadda and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan released on 20 May 2016.[65]
Attack on Pakistani prisoner[edit]
Following the attack in prison and subsequent death of Singh, a Pakistani prisoner serving a life sentence in Jammu jail was attacked on 3 May 2013, allegedly by another convict, causing serious head injuries. The security of Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails was tightened.[66] The Pakistani prisoner, Sanaullah Ranjay, was hospitalised in Chandigarh and died later due to multiple organ failure.[67]
Published accounts[edit]
A biographical film called Sarabjit was produced by Vashu Bhagnani (among others) and directed by Omung Kumar. Actress Aishwarya Rai essayed the role of Singh's sister, Dalbir Kaur, while, Randeep Hooda and Richa Chada played the role of Sarbjit Singh and his wife, Sukhpreet, respectively.[68][69][70] The film was narrated through the perspective of Sarbjit Singh's sister Dalbir Kaur and was released on 20 May 2016 in India; the Censor board of Pakistan banned the film for being "anti-Pakistani".[71]
See also[edit]
- Ravindra Kaushik, RAW spy imprisoned in Pakistan
- Kashmir Singh, Indian spy imprisoned in Pakistan
- Kulbhushan Jadhav, Indian Navy officer detained for espionage in Balochistan
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- ^ a b Spy Surjeet Singh says Sarabjit is a 'terrorist'
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- ^ No pardon for Sarabjit, say Pak students
- ^ Pakistan student protests
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- ^ "Sarabjit's skull was broken into two pieces". Hindustan Times. 4 May 2013. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
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- Indian people imprisoned abroad
- Indian prisoners sentenced to death
- Indian people convicted of murder
- Indian people imprisoned on charges of terrorism
- People from Tarn Taran district
- Deaths by beating
- Prisoners who died in Pakistani detention
- Indian people who died in prison custody
- Indian Sikhs
- Punjabi people
- 1960s births
- 2013 deaths
- Indian spies
- India–Pakistan relations
- Indian expatriates in Pakistan
- People of the Research and Analysis Wing
- People convicted of espionage in Pakistan
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text: A contract awarded to Epir Technologies Inc. will help NASA optmize x-ray absorbers for silicon-based calorimeter spectrometers. The resulting x-ray sensors will have significantly higher spectral-resolution, "which will be used to provide insight into our hot and dynamic universe," NASA said in a statement issued by Sunovia. Epir is a Bollingbrook, Ill., maker of optoelectronic materials and sensors -- such as infrared (IR) detectors, biosensors and solar cells -- for defense and other industries. Under the Phase II SBIR contract, Epir will produce prototypes of the calorimeters, which are used to measure the wavelength of incoming x-ray photons. Semimetallic mercury telluride has been proven as an excellent absorber material due to its low heat capacity; however, the company said its research team has demonstrated "a breakthrough that proves MBE (molecular beam epitaxy) grown mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT) combines an excellent conductivity with an even lower heat capacity and hence allows superior energy resolution." Epir and Sunovia Inc., a Sarasota, Fla.-based IR sensor and imaging company the owns an interest in Epir, recently announced a partnership to commercialize solar, infrared and x-ray technologies for the renewable energy, night vision, medical and scientific markets. They said the NASA award will advance their strategy to commercialize synergistic cadmium-telluride-based technologies and manufacturing processes. Sunovia is the exclusive marketer of technology and IP for Epir products. Epir and the Microphysics Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, both led by Epir's presdient, Siva Sivananthan, are performing research on MCT-on-silicon substrates for IR detection and imaging. "The rich variety of x-ray emitters found outside of the solar system has resulted in the rapid development of detection devices since the inception of x-ray astronomy over 50 years ago," Sunovia said in a statement. "Nearly all observable objects in the night sky either emit x-radiation naturally or can be observed through x-ray absorption. Arguably, x-ray astronomy has yielded the most important astronomical discoveries of the last generation." NASA's next generation of x-ray observation missions will require x-ray calorimeters with energy resolution better than existing ones. "The Phase II contract for improved x-ray calorimeters pinpoints an entirely new application for our MCT-related products," Sunovia said. "In Phase I, Epir demonstrated that MCT is the best material known for the manufacture of x-ray calorimeters; now, in Phase II, Epir will fabricate x-ray calorimeters that NASA intends to fly on upcoming NASA missions, including Spectrum-X-Gamma (SXG), an international high-energy astrophysics observatory being built under the leadership of the Russian Space Research Institute, and NeXT, the New X-ray Telescope project, a next-generation x-ray astronomy satellite that the Japanese x-ray astronomy group has proposed -- if the NASA proposals for those missions are accepted." Sunovia said the companies are also designing less expensive high-efficiency solar cells that will use Epir's expertise in the growth of cadmium-telluride on silicon (CdTe/Si). For more information, visit: www.epir.com


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According to today's Variety, Dimension Films has snatched up the big-screen rights to comic book creator Steve Niles' latest project. The comic mini-series, Wake the Dead, is due next month in five installments. It is described on Niles' website as a "modern day Frankenstein tale."
This latest deal continues a Hollywood trend for Niles who previously sold his 30 Days of Night and Criminal Macabre comics to studios. None of the projects have made it into production just yet, but 30 Days of Night is setup at Sony with Sam Raimi producing, and Macabre is in the works at MGM.
The trade tips that the deal came about after Dimension execs Michael Zoumas and Narges Takesh spotted the comic at Comic-Con in San Diego last month. In the deal, the studio also secured the rights to Niles' next comic project, Remains, due out next year.


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You might believe that Stonehenge is a place unsuited to children, and better for adults-only visits. However, this is not at all the case. Indeed, there is plenty for kids to see and do both at Stonehenge itself and in the immediate area. We'll summarise some of the best possibilities here.
Stonehenge isn't just a circle of large stones (which, as you will learn, many children find just as mesmerising as adults anyway) – it also now houses a vast new visitor centre containing an exhibition space with over 300 archaeological finds from the area and a 360 degree audio visual tour through the 'story of the stones'. The centre also contains a child-friendly shop and café (The Stonehenge Kitchen), as well as baby-changing facilities. The landscape around Stonehenge also provides children with what is essentially an enormous outdoor playground – great for burning of excess energy!
Other Child-friendly Attractions in the Area
There are also plenty of other things to do to occupy the kids in the vicinity of Stonehenge. There is, for instance, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, which contains plenty of fascinating interactive displays, and which also runs regular workshops to entertain younger visitors.
Also in Salisbury is the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, which features a number of historic jets and fighter planes, including Jaguar, Harrier, and Hawk Jets. You can actually clamber into the cockpits of many of the planes, some of which even have working motors. In a similar vein, the Museum of Army Flying in Stocksbridge houses galleries devoted to all sorts of army and air force related paraphernalia, as well as a reconstructed 1940s house. The facility also contains interactive flight simulators and a cinema showing film captured during wartime, as well as a gift shop, licensed café, and children's play area.
For some energetic fun, head down to Larkhill Space Station, an enormous, multi-levelled and vibrantly coloured indoor adventure playground in the Wacky Warehouse mould. With loopy slides, padded climbing frames, and gigantic ball pools, the facility will keep kids entertained for a couple of hours at least. There is also a separate play space dedicated to those of toddler-age.
Alternatively, visit Farmer Giles' Farmstead to view and earn about farm animals and life on a traditional West Country farm. The site is entirely oriented towards little ones and contains an adventure playground, souvenir shop, and café. A little further afield at Ringwood is a 'Go Ape' facility equipped with a Go Ape Treetop Junior section. For adventurous little ones who love climbing, the site will provide an unforgettable experience.
As can be seen, there are myriad options for those with children in the Stonehenge area. Many of the attractions listed here will also provide an interesting day out for adults as well. Considering all of these factors, it would be fair to conclude that Stonehenge and its surrounds are an excellent destination for a complete all-round family holiday. Just bear in mind that due to the popularity of the area, many attractions, especially Stonehenge itself, can be busy during peak times, so plan accordingly.
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The author is a trained tour guide with www.sightseeingtourslondon.co.uk who offer guided tours from London to Stonehenge and back in a day, they are extremely child friendly and offer childrens packs to help children understand the wonders of this great attraction.


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For months now I have been getting BSOD on a daily basis after posting in many forums someone from another site directed me here.
These BSOD happen on my windows 10 OS usualy while im playing Warcraft. But I have a windows 7 OS on another seperate drive and it crashes regularly too, although nowhere near as often as the windoes 10 OS.
I also have a ssd hot swap drive that in general every time i plug it in once i close down and remove it SFC insists on running on every drive.


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This started a few days ago, happened for ONE day then stopped, but it did it once tonight too:
Suddenly, for no reason I can figure out, my computer plays THE FIRST SECOND or two of the song "In The End" by Linkin' Park!
This makes no sense, it baffles me. I don't understand why it does that. Restarting my PC didn't help, and disabling sound themes either.
There seems to be no pattern, but it's always the same segment that plays; the first second or so.
Any help? I can't figure it out!


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Our board committees
We have five board committees, which assist the board with its responsibilities.
Membership of the committees consists solely of independent non-executive directors. Executive directors and senior management attend certain meetings by invitation.
Safety, health and environment committee
The safety, health and environment (SHE) committee monitors the integrity of the methods used to carry out SHE responsibilities. The committee satisfies itself that SHE policies and strategies are adequate and effective taking into account relevant standards and requirements.
Committee membership
- Chris Gibb – chair
- Rob Brighouse
- Peter Hendy
- Mike Putnam
- Safety, health and environment committee terms of reference
- Safety, health and environment committee report 2018
Audit and risk committee
The audit and risk committee monitors the integrity of the financial reporting and the audit process and monitors internal control systems including risk management, regulation and compliance. The committee makes recommendations to the board on the level of risk appetite acceptable to the company and oversees the process for the identification and management of risk.
The committee has a structured programme of activities including receipt of regular detailed reports on relevant aspects of management, focused to coincide with key events of the annual financial reporting cycle.
Committee membership
- Sharon Flood – chair
- Bridget Rosewell
- Rob Brighouse
- Silla Maizey
- Terms of reference for the audit and risk committee
- Audit and risk committee report 2018
- Non-audit services by independent auditor
Remuneration committee
The remuneration committee in contrast to most, if not all, listed companies is empowered under the articles of association of Network Rail Limited to determine remuneration for directors, as opposed to making recommendations to the board.
This responsibility reflects the business aim to provide independence of the decision-making process as appropriate for the highest levels of corporate governance and reflects the importance of remuneration and incentive schemes in supporting the delivery of the company's responsibilities.
Committee membership
- Bridget Rosewell – chair
- Richard Brown
- Sharon Flood
- Peter Hendy
Nomination committee
The nomination committee reviews the size, structure and composition of the board and committees and makes recommendations to the board on any adjustments deemed necessary and feasible. The committee identifies and nominates candidates for appointment to the board and satisfies itself that appropriate succession planning is in place. The committee reviews and makes recommendations to the board on corporate governance best practice.
Committee membership
- Bridget Rosewell – chair
- Richard Brown
- Peter Hendy
Treasury committee
The treasury committee reviews and satisfies itself as to the appropriateness of proposed treasury transactions including banking, cash management, debt raising and management and investment management.
Committee membership
- Sharon Flood – chair
- Bridget Rosewell
- Silla Maizey


text: Hi I went to a&e last Friday in extreme tummy pain got ct scan they told me I had an impacted bowel gave me an enema and sent me home after 7 hours. Saturday still in pain by Sunday I couldn't walk so went back to a&e they sent me for an xray gave me painkillers sent me home. Monday was the worst pain so back to a&e and I told them I wasn't leaving till they found out what was wrong. Got another ct scan injected wit dye they said I had an infection that started I my overies spread to my intestine and bowel my temp went up to 39 so in hospital on 2 antibiotics still feel like crap they said I was lucky my bowel didn't burst. Has anyone ever had this before and does anyone know what cud have caused it


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People understand that the environment in which they live has a huge role in defining the state of their health. Also, it helps to ensure the safety of the residents in a given location. A top dumpster rental Queens company dubbed "Dumpster Rental Guys" has helped to resolve the dilemma of what people get to benefit when they rent a dumpster. They listed 5 reasons dumpsters are essential for Spring cleaning on their website and the post has gone viral. We will be recapping some of the points that they shared in order to bring everyone on the same page. It is essential to know that there are other important reasons which may not be captured in this piece.
One of the reasons is that it can be hazardous to carelessly expose refuse close to where you live. A source from dumpsterrentalguys.com says and we quote "the role of a dumpster in keeping your environment clean cannot be overemphasized". It helps in the management of refuse and it makes the air you breathe quite safe. Many people who have tried to do without a dumpster have discovered that it is not a wise way to live. The dumpster saves you the stress of looking for other means of disposing your waste.
Another reason why the dumpster is essential for spring cleaning is that it helps you to package your refuse for easy disposal. It does not make sense to litter your environment and make it burdensome for a dumpster rental company to take away your refuse. The dumpster puts everything in one spot and this makes it a seamless process when the company who handles waste come calling.
The third reason for using dumpsters during spring cleaning is that it helps the dumpster rental company to easily recycle waste. Most waste that is due for recycling can be difficult to sort out if not for the ease of using the right dumpsters. There are dumpsters that collect food waste, others collect plastic waste, etc. This means that the process of recycling can be done without sweat when you use good dumpsters for your spring cleaning.
The fourth reason why dumpsters are important for spring cleaning is that they help you to protect your loved ones. Dumpsters can be the best way to keep away debris, broken plates, bottles, etc; from harming those in your household. The place of keeping the environment safe is one of the critical things that will determine if you will enjoy the Spring season. Dumpsters are very solid in trapping the things that can hurt anyone in your space.
Finally, dumpsters are a way of showing that you truly care for your neighbors and the environment. When dirt is littered around your building, it can fly to the home of your neighbors with the help of the wind. If you have questions about sizes either call the company of interest of stop by your local home depot, the professionals there are knowledgeable and ready to help. This does not speak well about an individual and it may hurt your social standing in that neighborhood. Dumpsters help you to keep everyone in your area free from any waste that may spread from your home to theirs. Generally, dumpsters play other pivotal roles during spring cleaning but these five points are some of the reasons why you need to get a dumpster today.


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Via My Little Pony News, we are informed that diligent fans on MLP Arena have found images of more of the mysterious Crystal Empire toys, after SoSilver was sent a Crystal Empire Princess Cadance and Shining Armor set by Hasbro in Italy a few days ago.
Again they appear to be sets for Target exclusively, but there is another set, "Pony Friends Forever," which seems to be intended for Toys "R" Us.
Again, if you are knowledgeable in the area of official merchandise, and you would be interested in writing about it on DHN, please get in touch.


text: Siung Beach in Wates hamlet, Purwodadi village, Tepus district in Gunung Kidul regency, Yogyakarta province, is among the island of Java's most attractive southern beaches because of the white sand and calm waves. A favorite pastime at Siung Beach is to savor grilled fish dishes while succumbing to the place's atmosphere. Often, many visitors are so captured by the beauty of Siung Beach that they later decide to camp for a night or two or stay at one of the humble accommodations nearby. Nowadays, the beach has gained more popularity as a famous spot for Indonesian rock climbing athletes to test their skills, abilities and limits. Wall climbing athletes from the nearby area of Pacitan, Yogyakarta and Solo, have become regular visitors to Siung Beach's magnificent cliff. The cliff is located at the right side of the beach. More than 200 rock climbers' tracks can be found on the cliff. The climbing tracks have various levels of difficulties, from easy to advanced -- perfect for those who just got a hang of the extreme sport or for those seeking an extra adrenaline rush to heighten their climbing skills. The Yogyakarta branch of the Indonesian Climbing Federation (FPTI) dubbed the place as "the cliff with a thousand climbing tracks" and has annually, in partnership with the Gunung Kidul Tourism Department, held an event called the Rock Climbing Jamboree, which has also been attended by rock climbers from outside the country.


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Charles Moore's Mailbag
Leopard Best OS for G4 PowerBooks, Support Expectations from Apple, Back to Opera, and More
Charles Moore - 2008.07.09 - Tip Jar
- Is Leopard the Best OS for a 12" PowerBook?
- Leopard on TiBook, Apple a Gamble, and Linux
- Depreciation and Value for the Money
- Forget Firefox - I'm Going Back to Opera
- Voice Dictation Software for PowerPC Macs
Is Leopard the Best OS for a 12" PowerBook?
From John Muir:
Hi Charles,
I have the very same PowerBook as Greg: the original 867 MHz 12" PowerBook G4. It's my first Mac, and as such I'm still rather attached to it. It has run every version of OS X since Jaguar, right up to and including Leopard. Each major release has been an improvement in its own way, though Leopard was the first time there has really been any decrease in overall speed.
For just about a year I ran Tiger on this Mac from a CompactFlash card, as I wrote about in Operation FlashBook: Running Tiger from Flash on a PowerBook G4.
The flash experiment probably helped inure me to slower performance. Tiger on my conventional hard drive had always been quite snappy and certainly faster than Jaguar, but when the drive started off on its journey to failure, long pauses started to appear as data was being held up, so I knew I had to replace it. Flash was certainly an interesting way to do this, carrying the advantage of pure silence. But once again all was not well there, and the poor performance I wrote about in the article was the first sign of the flash card's similar demise.
When Leopard came out, I bought a new hard drive and installed 10.5 afresh. It was not fast. Better than the very flaky flash performance, which had only become worse since I wrote the article, but definitely not the PowerBook of old. I suspected the 640 MB of memory I had installed, an old upgrade from back in the Panther days when the factory installed 256 MB was no longer enough. A surprisingly cheap upgrade to the model's absolute maximum of 1152 MB later, and Leopard was notably better behaved.
RAM upgrades are vital for keeping old machines on new software.
RAM upgrades are vital for keeping old machines on new software. If you space them out long enough, you'll pay less for the bigger, later ones as the industry's price curve crossed before you.
Anyway, how is Leopard overall now?
Well, much better than I had to say Tiger was in that article. I won't pretend Leopard feels identical on an 867 MHz G4 to, say, the 2 GHz Core 2 Duo in my Mac mini, but it's at least as usable as I found my original Mac OS: Jaguar. I have Safari, iChat, Mail. and NetNewsWire running continuously, and they're well behaved and almost as quick as on the Intel. The difference comes when you try something more demanding: I do a lot with video on the mini and it's an order of magnitude ahead of the little PowerBook. The iWork suite's word processor, Pages, is quite sluggish on the PowerBook, which surprised me at first - until I tried the other iWork 2008 apps as well. They run far better on Intels. Of course, TextEdit is as speedy and better featured than most people know anyway, so no real trouble there.
With high performance demands comes a lot of heat. As you know, these original 12" PowerBooks aren't the coolest runners among Apple's laptops. Since I loathe fans coming on too, I use Reduced Performance CPU mode (found in System Preferences) to control that. In fact, I made a pair of AppleScripts to toggle the setting and can "flip the switch" with just the function keys whenever I like, thanks to FastScripts. The other side of the equation is a nifty utility called iStat Menus, which I have displaying a CPU history graph and temperature reading up in the menu bar next to Time Machine and AirPort. Of course, I'm just the kind of geek who likes these readings anyway, and I have the same displayed on my Mac mini for no better reason than curiosity!
I'm pushing the PowerBook extra hard with one last thing. I'm learning Cocoa programming at last, so I have the latest Apple developer tools installed, including the iPhone SDK. Technically, the minimum requirement is an Intel Mac, but I use FireWire target mode and my trusty Mac mini to overcome that obstacle each time there's a new beta! Surprisingly, all the apps involved are Universal Binary, so I can even run the iPhone simulator on my five-year-old 12" Mac. Not bad. Xcode is noticeably sluggish on my G4 compared to the Intel Mac mini, where it feels more at home, but this way I can keep learning when I'm away from my desk as well.
To be honest, I would always run the latest supported OS, as I'm too involved with the new technologies each version introduces under the hood. I'm also forever experimenting with third party software, and a lot of that follows the latest releases for just the same reason. In other words: I'm a features over performance man.
Leopard doubtlessly runs better on Intel Macs than G4s. And when Snow Leopard comes around, I'll need new hardware at last to keep up with it. But what is amazing is the value you can get out of your Mac, years and years after you bought it.
Hi John,
Thanks for the interesting observations and analysis.
Judging from the sort of performance I'm getting with Leopard on this 1.33 GHz 17" PowerBook with 1.5 GB of RAM, I don't doubt that it must be a pretty sluggish cat on a 867 MHz G4 with just over a gig. of memory.
Tiger is the optimum performance system on this 'Book, and on my two old 550 MHz G4 Pismos as well, but as you say, features can trump performance, and Leopard runs well enough on the 1.33 unit for me to put up with the performance compromises and other angularities, although I wouldn't think of attempting to run Leopard on the Pismos.
Incidentally, Tiger 10.4.11 runs very well on my wife's 700 MHz G3 iBook.
I expect to be upgrading to a Macintel before the end of the year, mostly because I need Intel support for software reviews. I don't really need more power than this old G4 provides for my actual work tasking, much of which I actually still do on the old Pismos, which I still like better than any other Macs I've ever owned.
Leopard on TiBook, Apple a Gamble, and Linux
From Jeffrey:
Leopard on TiBook:
I find that my TiBook handles Leopard acceptably well. I find it only slightly less responsive than it was under Tiger. My battery life is still very good (~3.75 hours). I find it significantly more responsive than a 600 MHz G3 iBook running Tiger.
That was a supported configuration that I didn't care for using on a daily basis, whereas my TiBook is a supported configuration that I find usable. That said, using the TiBook makes me enjoy using my Quicksilver (2 800 MHz G4s, Radeon 9000 Pro, 1.5 GB RAM, 146 GB 15K SCSI) all the more, because that machine has both video and hard drive upgrades that make it quite responsive with Leopard. You may find it interesting to note that a dual 800 Quicksilver is not a supported configuration, and I prefer it over my supported TiBook (867 MHz, 1.0 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive).
Apple a Gamble?
I have come to expect Apple to support good hardware for a long time, and I expect Apple to continue to support any hardware that can reasonably run the latest OS.
You know I read all these articles saying "get over it" with regard to PPC and Snow Leopard, and I've been struggling with why I feel so negatively about that. Basically my response is that I have come to expect Apple to support good hardware for a long time, and I expect Apple to continue to support any hardware that can reasonably run the latest OS.
Yes, I've seen Apple support some hardware too long (e.g., 7.5.5 on a Mac Plus, 9.1 on a Duo 2300c and a Power Mac 6100, etc.). Really, I do appreciate that providing support too long doesn't really does do anyone any favors. Those systems were not adequate to do the latest operating systems justice, and really there was no use it supporting them. I have no good reason to believe that OS 8.6 would have run well on a 68040, and I tried running 8.1 on a 68030 (because I could), and it wasn't my best user experience either.
Unsupported status for my Quicksilver was the first time I ever found a machine that Apple stopped supporting that I thought was more than adequate for the task. Not a problem, because there were ways to run it anyway. Still, a video upgrade was all that was required . . . no different than adding extra RAM to a machine, is it?
But if I had bought a computer the price of a G5 dual or quad machine, even at Apple refurbished prices, and Apple not only stopped supporting it, but I couldn't even run the most current software "unsupported" after less than four years, I would feel very angry and virtually betrayed. I find it impossible to believe that these machines, especially the ones with dedicated graphics cards, would be "inadequate" to run an operating system capable of running on a Core Solo Mac mini or even a MacBook with GMA 950 graphics.
But the bottom line for me is this: Why should I believe, based upon Apple's current path, that an Apple computer that I purchase new today will be supported beyond three years from now? How can I rationalize a decision to purchase a new Apple computer if they do not continue to demonstrate a reasonable period of support, especially for their flagship models?
In a nutshell, I can't.
Before I am going to be comfortable with the idea that Apple is going to cut a bunch of G5s off at the knees with the release of Snow Leopard, I need to hear why I should believe that isn't going to happen to me next time . . . when the 128-bit 16-core subnotebooks running PA Semi's latest low-power chipset set represent such a leap-forward in technology that you poor folks who have those pathetic Xeon quad core machines should just get over it and be thankful for the 3.5 years of support that you got. Perhaps a bit over-dramatic, but I think the question is still valid. And the answer...?
Why Not Linux?
Some say, don't worry, if you want to stay current, you can run Linux on your Mac.
That's true.
And to that I would say when I choose to run Linux, I have a greater variety of hardware configurations and alternatives better supported by Linux if I don't buy Apple.
Ditto for *BSD.
Hi Jeffrey,
I think that the issue with PPC support and Snow Leopard is a somewhat unique one, with the dynamic in play unlikely to be repeated. It isn't as if PPC users are being cut adrift. I expect Leopard support and security upgrades will continue for years to come yet.
The thing with Snow Leopard, as I (no doubt imperfectly) understand it, is that most of the things that will functionally distinguish OS X 10.6 from OS X 10.5 will be features that are closely integrated with Intel's rapidly developing chip technologies, so even if Snow Leopard continued to contain the code to boot PowerPC machines, it would still in a functional sense be Leopard with a name upgrade on non-Intel machines.
Consequently, I can understand Apple's (presumed) decision not to extend PPC support at the expense of compromised performance on Intel Macs and code bloat - and I'm speaking as one whose last system purchase was a G4 30 months ago.
Actually, I think even Leopard is one version too far for this 1.33 GHz G4, but the Leopard feature set has seduced me.
Depreciation and Value for the Money
From Yuhong Bao:
The combination of depreciation and value for the money always leads me to buy into the mid-end.
Yuhong Bao
Hi Yuhong Bao,
I think that's often a wise policy.
For example, the "mid-end" MacBook is definitely the best value of the three configurations Apple offers.
However, when there's no "mid-end", as with the 15" MacBook Pro, my inclination would be to go with the low-end (so to speak) model, which I think is a substantially better value for the money than the high-end model (which costs 25% more and doesn't really deliver proportionately in terms of power and value added).
Forget Firefox - I'm Going Back to Opera
From Leif:
Hi Charles - found this, Forget Firefox - I'm Going Back to Opera for Browsing and Email, but you perhaps already saw it.
(Sent from Opera. Not that I have really switched.)
Hi Leif,
Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that article, and it's an excellent apologetic for Opera.
I've been using both Opera 9.5 (now 9.5.1) and Firefox 3 since they were released almost simultaneously last month, and they're both good browsers, but Opera is superior by a substantial margin, mostly because of a whole host of little things and without even factoring in the embedded email client.
The latter I'm finding very tempting as I continue to struggle along with not-quite-Leopard-compatible Eudora 6.2.4. Two things hold me back, the first being a dozen years of experience and archived messages in Eudora, along with the fact that it's still the best email client ever designed, while the second is hope that Odysseus development will come to fruition soon with a stable and reliable modernized interpretation of that Eudora goodness.
Voice Dictation Software for PowerPC Macs
From Nancy:
Dear Charles,
I read and enjoy your columns a great deal, and we have corresponded in the past. Although I'm sure with the volume of email you receive, you don't recall. (It was about laptop cooling pads, I believe.)
Anyway, there is a family of Mac users in my town whom I try to help, and one of them called me today with a problem. She suffers from neck pain, and is finding it difficult to type for long periods on the iBook G4 12" that she inherited from her sister (who in turn got it from my son!). It's the 1 GHz model with 786 MB RAM, running Tiger 10.4.11. She called me today asking what voice dictation software she could purchase. I remember reading your reviews of MacSpeech's iListen, so I went straight to their website and was dismayed to find that iListen is no longer available, and that MacSpeech Dictate is Intel-only.
So my question to you is, are there any sources where she might still be able to purchase iListen? Or are there any other apps she might be able to use instead? I seem to recall that iListen was pretty much it for the Mac.
Thank you for your assistance, as I know how busy you are.
Hi Nancy,
Thank you for the kind words about my scribbling. I think I do recall our correspondence about the cooling pads, but can't place it precisely in time.
I learned something from your letter, to wit: that MacSpeech has discontinued iListen sales, which is disappointing. I'm still using iListen myself, as I have not yet switched up from my old G4 PowerBook. I assume that the reason for dropping it was that supporting two completely different dictation products would stretch a small company's resources too thinly, and there may also be issues with costs for continuing to license the Philips Speech Engine used in iListen as well as the Dragon NaturallySpeaking engine used in Dictate. That is all just deduction on my part.
Anyway, what I would suggest for your friend is to get a copy of IBM ViaVoice 10 for Mac, although development was suspended some time ago, and it only supports up to OS X 10.3.9, so your friend would be obliged to "downgrade" her operating system to Panther from Tiger. ViaVoice for Mac is still available from Nuance.com for $124.99 including an Andrea USB microphone. The 1 GHz 12" iBook does support OS X 10.3, which is the OS it shipped with.
I used ViaVoice quite a bit in the early days of OS X (and also older Classic Mac OS versions), and it is actually pretty decent dictation software in the context of its era, although not up to the standard of Dictate and later versions of iListen.
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