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It's that time of year again, time for fresh starts, optimism for the future, and New Year's resolutions. Unfortunately, there's nothing fresh, optimistic, or resolute coming out of our nation's capital these days. After a months' long game of political chicken, Congress managed to maneuver its way around the worst elements of the dreaded "fiscal cliff" at the 11th hour. What they failed miserably to demonstrate is an ability to address America's dire fiscal situation in a serious manner.
In describing the "grand bargain" that emerged from weeks of rhetorical back-and-forth between the White House and Speaker Boehner's office, the Wall Street Journal had this to say:
"The Senate-White House compromise grudgingly passed by the House is a Beltway classic: The biggest tax increase in 20 years in return for spending increases, and all spun for political purposes as a 'tax cut for the middle class.' But taxes on the middle class were only going up on January 1 because the politicians had set it up that way, manufacturing a fake crisis. The politicians now portray themselves as scrambling heroically to save the day by sparing the middle class while raising taxes on small business, investors and the affluent."
Indeed, Congress taking a bow for averting the fiscal cliff is like an arsonist claiming credit for putting out a fire that he started. The "fiscal cliff" was a creature of Congress's own creation! Congress orchestrated a recession-inducing convergence of tax hikes and spending cuts as a way to coerce themselves into getting serious about passing a balanced budget, addressing the deficit, and initiating entitlement reform. Now our august representatives want to take credit for escaping the potential danger that they created, all the while having managed to avoid doing anything to address the problems the whole sequestration contingency was geared towards solving. Only in Washington, D.C., can such a pathetic outcome be spun as a victory for the people.
I suppose if one is inclined to make lemonade from lemons, there are a few bright spots in the disappointing compromise cobbled together at the last possible moment. It's good that the Bush-era tax cuts have been made permanent. This at least provides some economic stability for small businesses and entrepreneurs to hang their hats on in this rather uncertain economic environment. Of course this good news is tempered somewhat by the expiration of the payroll tax holiday. And the compromise reached regarding the estate tax only looks good in comparison to what would have been if Mr. Obama had gotten his way. He wanted 45% and only got 40%. President Obama and his spendthrift, big government congressional cohorts now get 40% of your accumulated wealth over $5 million when you die – money that you've already paid taxes on once, if not twice or three times. Bet you don't think death should be a taxable event, but leave it to Big Brother to find a justification for taking the pennies from your eyes.
As many have pointed out, however, the real challenge is yet to come. In a few weeks we'll begin hearing news of more late night negotiations, all for the purpose of delaying yet again the worst of the sequestration measures from taking effect. Then, of course, there is the debt-ceiling debate looming. The president, in full professorial mode, has already made clear that he will not get on this particular horse again. He seems to think he has the authority to raise the debt limit through the bully pulpit, and wishes he had the constitutional authority to do so via Executive Order. But he can't, and thankfully he doesn't. That debate, and others, will happen and happen soon. Can Congress overcome its addiction to spending? Will it risk alienating interest groups and constituencies who trade votes for government largesse? The odds don't look good, but hope springs eternal, as they say.
One thing's certain: Unless we get spending under control, the pressure for more taxes will be unrelenting, and America will continue to slouch towards European-style quasi-socialism.


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We then had the Maderia lecture from Dr Susan Kay-Williams on dyes. Unfortunately, I missed most of this, as one of our Branch members was taken ill and ended up being rushed to hospital. What I saw and heard was very interesting though.
Competition results were then announced in first place, number 34:-
Tomorrow we are off to an airshow in Lincoln, lets hope the sun keeps shinning!

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I run Fun Family Crafts, a library of craft tutorials geared at kids of all ages. I would love it if you'd stop by and submit this to be featured! (I link to you, I don't post your tutorial on the site) Feel free to submit as many kid friendly craft tutorials as you like! http://funfamilycrafts.com/
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The tutorial is great too! Sarah teaches you how to make this in any size. I'm kinda wanting one for myself!
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I think I need one in my size too! Thanks so much for linking up to Tout It Tuesday.ReplyDelete
I love all of the contrasting prints and colors! I might need to try this sometime!ReplyDelete
Oh great idea - I love these different fabrics and have never heard of a jelly roll before. THanks for sharing at our party this week.ReplyDelete
That skirt looks so cute! I've seen jelly rolls online and wondered what on earth could be made with them...now I know, and am inspired! :DReplyDelete
I love Moda's bake shop! This turned out so cute!! I think I might make one too!ReplyDelete
Love it! Still have a couple jelly rolls sitting around waiting for me to use them up. Must make my little girl one!ReplyDelete
How darling. I love the color combination, too. And that's awesome that you let your daughter help. It makes it that much more special to her. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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That's super cute! A great use for jelly rolls, I might have to try this one!ReplyDelete
I've never used a jelly roll. Definitely a good idea if it gives you beautifully co-ordinated fabric like this. You are so patient to let your daughter help you. The skirt looks great!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I love the gray and yellow! I just linked up a dress for my little girl with very similar fabric in stripes too (on Keeping it Simple). I can't wait until she's old enough to sew with me.ReplyDelete
You're never to young to start crafting. Well done to her on a lovely neat job.ReplyDelete
Super cute! You both did a great job!ReplyDelete
I think that this needs to be made in an adult size! Thanks for sharing on Tout It Tuesday!ReplyDelete
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A onetime aide to former Democratic State Rep. Connie Howard of Chicago faces a federal mail fraud charge as prosecutors allege he spent more than $217,000 in AIDS awareness grant money on a house, football game skyboxes and interns who did work for a public official.
Federal prosecutors in Springfield on Friday disclosed the indictment of Lloyd Kelly, who was arrested on May 20 after being first charged under seal nearly a year ago.
Kelly served as executive director of the Let's Talk, Let's Test Foundation, a non-profit he formed in 2003 to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS in the African-American community where transmission rates had remained high.
Howard is not named in the indictment against Kelly, but the document refers to a "Public Official A," described as an Illinois House member who created the now-defunct foundation with Kelly. The Tribune has reported that Howard, a House member at the time, served as a co-founder and the organization's board chairwoman.
Howard quietly resigned last July, less than a week before Kelly was first indicted under seal and after state records related to Let's Talk, Let's Test were subpoenaed by federal authorities in 2009. Howard had held office since 1995 and cited "personal reasons" in her resignation letter.
According to the indictment, the state gave the foundation grants in 2007 totaling $1.2 million to help pay for awareness programs including an annual walk and bike ride, creating additional testing sites in black communities, and providing medical and social services for inmates and former inmates.
Prosecutors contend much of that work was never done. Instead, they say, Kelly "fraudulently diverted a substantial amount of the foundation's grant funds for other purposes, including the personal benefit of defendant Kelly and Public Official A and their associates."
That includes $50,000 Kelly allegedly pocketed as a "bonus" and another $22,500 to pay social security and withholding taxes on the funds, prosecutors said. Kelly used another $10,000 of the grant money to help buy a home and $3,000 to pay for personal expenses, according to the indictment.
In addition, authorities allege Kelly diverted roughly $56,000 in grant money to a separate private organization. Another $20,000 was used to pay wages of foundation members who actually worked for Public Official A's legislative and campaign office, including a driver and personal assistant. An additional $3,000 went to pay rent at the same official's legislative and campaign office.
Court documents also show $7,000 was used to buy tickets, skyboxes, food and alcohol for the 2007 Chicago Football Classic, which Kelly, Public Official A and others attended.
Federal public defender Daniel Hillis is representing Kelly, but said Friday that he was "unable to comment on the case." Howard did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
The Tribune profiled Kelly in February 2006. Kelly was viewed as passionate but controversial, telling a reporter that "white gay men can't make effective policy for [blacks] because they don't live in our community." Kelly is a former public aid caseworker who briefly pursued acting in the 1980s.
The story also noted that state campaign finance records listed the foundation as giving nearly $7,000 in campaign contributions to Howard that were prohibited because of its tax-exempt status. At the time, both Kelly and Howard said the money simply reimbursed Howard for loans to the organization, once housed in her South Side district office, and should not have been documented as contributions. Howard had amended her finance report to reflect that.
In recent years, prosecutors have issued multiple subpoenas centered on grants issued by several South Side and West Side lawmakers. That includes two subpoenas issued in 2009 requested documents from the state relating to Let's Talk, Let's Test.
Those subpoenas went to the Illinois Department of Public Health, which had given the group a $1.2 million grant in 2007, and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, which gave the foundation a separate $500,000 grant in 2007.
Through its grant monitoring process, the economic development agency found that Let's Talk, Let's Test failed to meet several requirements, including failure to supply adequate financial records and failure to provide evidence supporting expenditures, an agency spokeswoman said.
Both agencies sought to recoup those grant payments through legal action taken by Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office. The foundation eventually was ordered to repay more than $1 million, but the only assets found were real estate purchased using state money. The city has since filed a demolition lien on the property, so it is unlikely the state will recover the money.


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A $1 billion Russia-based criminal gang has been bilking online advertisers by impersonating high-profile Web sites like ESPN, Vogue, CBS Sports, Fox News and the Huffington Post and selling phony ad slots, but that's about to end.
Online fraud-prevention firm White Ops is releasing data today that will enable online advertisers and ad marketplaces to block the efforts of the group, which is cashing in on its intimate knowledge of the automated infrastructure that controls the buying and selling of video ads.
The group has been ramping up its activities since October so that it now reaps roughly $3 million to $5 million per day from unsuspecting advertisers and gives them nothing in return, says White Ops, which discovered the first hints of the scam in September.
When someone clicks on a video that's posted to a Web page, the video is often preceded by a short advertising video known as pre-roll. The pre-roll slot is sold realtime – within 100 milliseconds – via an automated auction. That click to request the video is what initiates the ad auction, and the browser directly receives the pre-roll from the advertiser that wins, says White Ops CEO Michael Tiffany.
The system relies on information provided by the browser to verify what site the browser user is visiting and that it actually receives the pre-roll ad. "The ecosystem believes what the browser says about what site you're at," he says.
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The gang, which Tiffany calls AFT13, has created a robo-browser called Methbot that spoofs all the necessary interactions needed to initiate, carry out and complete the ad transactions. So Methbot contacts an ad exchange and says it needs a pre-roll for a video on Vogue.com, for example. The system runs an instant auction, settles on an ad and sends it to Methbot, which verifies that it received it and played it.
Then the advertiser pays the entity the website that the browser claimed to be visiting, but that entity resolves ultimately to AFK13, not to Voguecom, in this example, he says.
Beyond this, AFK13 spoofs the geolocation of the IP addresses that the Methbot servers use so it seems they are all owned by U.S. internet service providers. The proxy IP addresses mask the fact that Methbot traffic is generated by servers as opposed to individual personal computers generating legitimate traffic. It also hides that the servers are located in data centers in Dallas and Amsterdam.
This helps Methbot duck detection mechanisms that look for a few IP addresses that generate enormous volumes of requests Tiffany says, enabling AFK13 to sell 200 million to 300 million false ad impressions per day for 1.3 cents per view on average, White Ops says. The fraud network does its work from an estimated 800 to 1,000 nodes in its data centers and operates 24 hours per day, with a sales cycle of 5 seconds per impression.
Methbot further avoids detection by selling the ads on more than 6,000 domains representing about 250,000 URLs.
To pull this all off, AFK13 has amassed an impressive infrastructure that includes:
- The servers that generate all the Methbot browser activity.
- A bank of 500,000 IPv4 addresses (worth about $4 million if sold on the open market).
- A means of registering those IP addresses so they appear to be allocated to U.S. ISPs.
- Methbot software.
The software has been upgraded over the period that White Ops became aware of it, Tiffany says. For example, White Ops first caught on to the scam when it noted a small error in an HTTP header used by the group. One value, known as Cache-Control, contained a colon, which violated the specification for that value. Since then the error has been corrected.
White Op has been blocking Methbot traffic for its customers, but the only way to stop it entirely is to release the list of URLs indicative of Methbot, the IP addresses used by AFK13 and the list of publisher domains it forges.
Tiffany says White Ops has also notified the FBI about the scam.


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Vin Diesel 1-Man Dance Party ... To Katy Perry Jam
Vin Diesel felt the urge to dance ... by himself ... to a Katy Perry song ... and thankfully, he recorded the entire session on video to share with the world.
Diesel took a break in the middle of rockin' out to explain why he felt like dancing -- "Universal just called me and told me "Riddick" is number one on the DVD charts."
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Restoring a Single User from Backups Archived to Tape
This article discusses how to speed up the restore of a single user from backups archived to tape by minimizing the amount of data retrieved from tape.
Short Version vs. Long Version
The short version: You need the full backup's session.xml file, the directory corresponding to the user under the accounts subdirectory, and the entire shared_blobs directory. If you want incremental restore as well, you'll also need session.xml file and redologs directory from all subsequent incremental backups. There is a slight variation if auto-grouped backup mode is used.
The long version requires a discussion of the backup types and their directory structure. There are two backup modes in ZCS: standard backup and auto-grouped backup.
Standard Backup
In standard backup, the typical setup is to run a weekly full backup and daily incremental backup on all the other days. For example, you might run a full backup Saturday night and incremental backups Sunday through Friday. The full backup is a logical data dump of all users and incremental backup is the redo logs that capture changes made since the last incremental backup.
Let's look at the directory structure of full and incremental backups. By default all backups are stored under /opt/zimbra/backup directory. This is called the backup target and can be changed in configuration or in each backup/restore request. The backup target directory has:
/opt/zimbra/backup/accounts.xml /opt/zimbra/backup/sessions /opt/zimbra/backup/tmp
The accounts.xml file lists all users and their latest full backup. The sessions directory contains the full and incremental backups. Backups under sessions directory are deleted after being archived. The tmp directory is used during a backup or a restore.
Under the sessions directory are subdirectories for full and incremental backups. Each directory contains one full or incremental backup. Example:
full-20101129.224845.750 incr-20101129.224859.100 incr-20101129.225302.603
The directories are named "full-" (full backup) or "incr-" (incremental backup) followed by the backup timestamp. (in GMT time zone, using the year-month-date.hour-minute-second.millisecond format) Let's look at the contents of each backup type.
Under the full backup directory we have:
|root directory for per-user data
|directory containing system-wide ldap dump
|file containing metadata about the backup, including the list of users in the backup
|root directory for shared blobs (e.g. emails sent to two or more people)
|directory containing dump of global database tables
The incremental backup directory has:
|root directory for per-user data
|directory containing system-wide ldap dump
|directory containing redo logs since the previous incremental backup
|file containing metadata about the backup, including the list of users in the backup
|directory containing dump of global database tables
The ldap and sys directories contain global data and are used only when restoring the entire system. They are not needed for single-user restores. The accounts and shared_blobs directories are important and will be discussed shortly.
Auto-Grouped Backup
The auto-grouped backup mode is used when standard full backup of all users takes too long and cannot be completed during off hours. The idea is to split the users into groups and backup one group per night. Typical setup uses a one week interval. Keeping a week's worth of backups guarantees restorability for any user. The system automatically selects the group of users to backup each night, hence the name auto-grouped backup.
As is done in standard backup mode, auto-grouped backups are stored under /opt/zimbra/backup/sessions directory. Each backup is named "full-<timestamp>" just like full backups in standard mode. The contents of an auto-grouped backup are:
|root directory for per-user data
|directory containing system-wide ldap dump
|directory containing redo logs since the previous backup
|file containing metadata about the backup, including the list of users in the backup
|root directory for shared blobs (e.g. emails sent to two or more people)
|directory containing dump of global database tables
An auto-grouped backup is a full backup of the users chosen for the group plus the redo logs generated since the previous backup. The directory structure reflects that.
The accounts Directory
Each user account has a subdirectory under the accounts directory of a full, incremental, or auto-grouped backup. The subdirectory has a three-level path based on the account's zimbraId string. The zimbraId is the globally unique ID assigned to each user by the system. Let's use an example zimbraId: 36d4d92f-c0fe-4578-869e-929c4b6b52aa. (not including the trailing period)
The account's three-level path is formed by taking the first three characters of the zimbraId, the next three characters, and the entire zimbraId value. For our example, the directory is: 36d/4d9/36d4d92f-c0fe-4578-869e-929c4b6b52aa. In full backup and auto-grouped backup, this directory has subdirectories for the user's database dump, blobs, search index, etc. The details are not important for our purpose, but here's an example listing:
|directory containing blobs for messages and other items
|directory containing database dump
|directory containing search index files
|ldap data for the account at the time of backup
|hard link to ldap.xml file for the account in the most recent incremental backup
|metadata about the account's backup
In an incremental backup, the account's directory has only the ldap.xml file.
The shared_blobs directory can contain either a collection of zip files or a directory structure, depending on the zip option used in the backup. If zip was used there will be zip files named blobs-X.zip, where X is a single character. The zip file contains all shared blobs whose blob digest begins with the lowercase of that character. If zip was not used during backup, the shared_blobs directory contains a six-level directory structure for each shared blob file. Example:
The first five levels are the lowercase of two characters from the start of the blob digest, the sixth and final subdirectory is the blob digest value, and finally the file itself which is always named blob.dat.
The shared_blobs directory can be very large because it contains shared blobs for all users. This is a problem for our goal of minimizing data to retrieve from tape because the contents are not organized per user. There is no easy way to extract a portion of the shared_blobs directory applicable to a single user. This means you will need to retrieve a lot more data from tape than the expected size of the user being restored. This could even be orders of magnitude larger than the user's mailbox size.
The account's per-user blob directory contains pointers to the shared blobs used by the account. This information can be used to minimize the shared blobs to pull from tape. But this technique is not useful if zip option was used during backup because then the shared_blobs directory will have 30 or so very large zip files. You might as well pull all of them from tape. Zip mode is used by default and is the preferred way because it greatly reduces the number of files produced by the backup, allowing efficient backup archival/deletion. In other words, you'll have to be prepared to retrieve the entire shared_blobs data set.
The Restore Process
We've talked about the backup process. Let's talk about restore a bit. Command line examples shown in this section are there for discussion only. Actual restore instructions come in the next section.
A user account is restored by first initializing the ldap entry, database, blobs and search index using the data from the full backup, then optionally replaying the changes in the redo logs from the incremental backups to bring the data more current. In auto-grouped backup, the redo log replay uses logs from the chosen "full" backup and all ensuing backups.
The basic command to restore the user named email@example.com looks like this:
zmrestore -a firstname.lastname@example.com -br
The -a option names to user to be restored. The -br option will be explained a bit later.
The zmrestore command uses the account's latest full backup (or auto-grouped backup, which can be thought of as a full backup) as the starting point. This information comes from the /opt/zimbra/backup/accounts.xml file. A different starting backup can be specified with the -lb option. This is most likely what you'll be doing when using backups pulled from tape. Example:
zmrestore -a email@example.com -br -lb full-20101129.224845.750
The above command will include replaying redo logs from the incremental backups. If you want to restore the user only to the state as of the full backup, use the -rf option:
zmrestore -a firstname.lastname@example.com -br -lb full-20101129.224845.750 -rf
Other zmrestore options are available to manage the redo log replay and restore the user account to a specific point in time.
When using data from tape, you might have put the retrieved data under a different backup target than the default /opt/zimbra/backup. In fact, it's a good idea to do so to avoid corrupting your live backup area by mistake. Let's say the custom target is /myrestore. The retrieved full and incremental backups must be placed under /myrestore/sessions. You can tell zmrestore about the new target with the -t option:
zmrestore -a email@example.com -br -lb full-20101129.224845.750 -t /myrestore
Notice the "sessions" subdirectory is not included in the command line.
Now about the -br option. By default the restore process brings the user account to the most recent state which is the current time. After replaying the redo logs from the incremental backups, replay continues with redo logs under /opt/zimbra/redolog/archive and finally the current redo log file, /opt/zimbra/redolog/redo.log. This requires all redo logs to be available in the backup. But this is often not the case when working with an older backup archived on tape, or when using a custom backup target directory. (because replay goes straight to /opt/zimbra/redolog after processing the logs from the custom target, skipping any logs in the default backup target) This is where the -br option comes in. It tells restore to stop the replay after processing all redo logs available in the backup target directory. The -br option is not needed when using the -rf option (restore to full backup only) because -rf means no redo log replay at all.
Finally, Getting the Data from Tape and Running Restore
Now that we covered all the background information, it should be easy to determine what set of data to get from tape in order to run a single user restore. First you need to know the zimbraId of the user. You can get this from the admin console, zmprov command, or from searching the /opt/zimbra/backup/accounts.xml file.
Next you need to know which full (or auto-grouped) backup contains the user you want to restore. This is obvious from looking at the directory listing if using standard backup mode. You can use the most recent directory named "full-<timestamp>". For auto-grouped backup, you need to look at each backup's session.xml file to see if your user is listed.
Let's say the full backup chosen is called full-XYZ. Using the custom backup target directory /myrestore, create the directory to hold the data pulled from tape. The full backup's directory should be:
The /myrestore directory should be owned by the zimbra unix user.
Next, retrieve the session.xml file and shared_blobs directory. Remember, the shared_blobs directory can be very large and you need all of its contents even though you won't use most of it. Then, retrieve the accounts subdirectory for the user's zimbraId. Make sure the directory structure under full-XYZ remains the same on disk and on tape. This is all the data you need if restoring the user to the point of full backup. Let's spell out the directories: (using the earlier example zimbraId 36d4d92f-c0fe-4578-869e-929c4b6b52aa)
/myrestore/sessions/full-XYZ/accounts/ 36d/4d9/36d4d92f-c0fe-4578-869e-929c4b6b52aa/* /myrestore/sessions/full-XYZ/session.xml /myrestore/sessions/full-XYZ/shared_blobs/*
Run the restore and you're done:
zmrestore -a email@example.com -br -lb full-XYZ -t /myrestore
We could have used the -rf option instead of the -br option. Since we only have the one backup under /myrestore/sessions, the effect of both options is the same: to avoid replaying the redo logs under /opt/zimbra/redolog.
If you want to bring the account more current with redo log replay, you need to get more data from tape. If full-XYZ was a standard full backup, retrieve the subsequent incremental backups. For each incremental backup, you only need the session.xml file and the redologs subdirectory.
If full-XYZ was an auto-grouped backup, retrieve its redologs subdirectory. Also get the subsequent backups, but for these you only need the session.xml file and the redologs subdirectory.
Once all data has been retrieved to /myrestore/sessions, run the restore:
zmrestore -a email@example.com -br -lb full-XYZ -t /myrestore
With the account restored, the /myrestore directory can be discarded.


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One of the advantages of an internal DSL over an external one is that you can leverage the full power of a general purpose programming language. If you create an external DSL, you may need to reinvent a slew of mechanisms that a good general purpose language would have provided you: things like modularity, inheritance, control flow and procedural abstraction.
In practice, it is unlikely that the designer of the DSL has the resources or the expertise to reinvent and reimplement all these, so the DSL is likely to be somewhat lobotomized. It may lack the facilities above entirely, or it may have very restricted versions of some of them. These restricted versions are mere shadows of the real thing; you could say that the DSL designer has created a shadow world.
I discussed this phenomenon as part of a talk I gave at Onward in 2013. This post focuses on a small part of that talk.
Here are three examples that might not always be thought of as DSLs at all, but definitely introduce a shadow world.
Shadow World 1: The module system of Standard ML.
ML modules contain type definitions. To avoid the undecidable horrors of a type of types, ML is stratified. There is the strata of values, which is essentially a sugared lambda calculus. Then there is the stratum of modules and types. Modules are called structures, and are just records of values and types. They are really shadow records, because at this level, by design, you can no longer perform general purpose computation. Of course, being a statically typed language, one wants to describe the types of structures. ML defines signatures for this purpose. These are shadow record types. You cannot use them to describe the types of ordinary variables.
It turns out one still wants to abstract over structures, much as one would over ordinary values. This is necessary when one wants to define parameterized modules. However, you can't do that with ordinary functions. ML addresses this by introducing functors, which are shadow functions. Functors can take and return structures, typed as signatures. However, functors cannot take or return functors, nor can they be recursive, directly or indirectly (otherwise we'd back to the potentially non-terminating compiler the designers of ML were trying so hard to avoid in the first place).
This means that modules can never be mutually recursive, which is unfortunate since this turns out to be a primary requirement for modularity. It isn't a coincidence that we use circuits for electrical systems and communication systems, to name two prominent examples.
It also means that we can't use the power of higher order functions to structure our modules. Given that the whole language is predicated on higher order functions as the main structuring device, this is oddly ironic.
There is a lot of published research on overcoming these limitations. There are papers about supporting restricted forms of mutual recursion among ML modules. There are papers about allowing higher-order functors. There are papers about combining them. These papers are extremely ingenious and the people who wrote them are absolutely brilliant. But these papers are also mind-bogglingly complex.
I believe it would be much better to simply treat modules as ordinary values. Then, either forego types as module elements entirely (as in Newspeak) or live with the potential of an infinite loop in the compiler. As a practical matter, you can set a time or depth limit in the compiler rather than insist on decidability. I see this as a pretty clear cut case for first class values rather than shadow worlds.
Shadow World 2: Polymer
Polymer is an emerging web standard that aims to bring a modicum of solace to those poor mistreated souls known as web programmers. In particular, it aims to allow them to use component based UIs in a standardized way.
In the Polymer world, one can follow a clean MVC style separation for views from controllers. The views are defined in HTML, while the controllers are defined in an actual programming language - typically Javascript, but one can also use Dart and there will no doubt be others. All this represents a big step forward for HTML, but it remains deeply unsatisfactory from a programming language viewpoint.
The thing is, you can't really write arbitrary views in HTML. For example, maybe your view has to decide whether to show a UI element based on program logic or state. Hence you need a conditional construct. You may have heard of these: things like if statements or the ?: operator. So we have to add shadow conditionals.
<template if="{{usingForm}}">
is how you'd express
if (usingForm) someComponent;
In a world where programmers cry havoc over having to type a semicolon, it's interesting how people accept this. However, it isn't the verbose, noisy syntax that is the main issue.
The conditional construct doesn't come with an else of elsif clause, nor is their a switch or case. So if you have a series of alternatives such as
if (cond1) {ui1}
else if (cond2) {ui2}
else {ui3}
You have to write
<template if = "{{cond1}}">
<template if = "{{cond2 && !cond1}}">
<template if = "{{cond3 && !cond2 && !cond3}"}>
A UI might have to display a varying number of elements, depending on the size of a data structure in the underlying program. Maybe it needs to repeat the display of a row in a database N times, depending on the amount of data. We use loops for this in real programming. So we now need shadow loops.
<template repeat = "{{task in current}}">
There's also a for loop
<template repeat= "{{ foo, i in foos }}">
Of course one needs to access the underlying data from the controller or model, and so we need a way to reference variables. So we have shadow variables like
and shadow property access.
Given that we are building components, we need to use components built by others, and the conventional solution to this is imports. And so we add shadow imports.
<link rel = "import" href = "...">
UI components are a classic use case for inheritance, and polymer components support can be derived from each other, starting with the predefined elements of the DOM, via shadow inheritance. It is only a matter of time before someone realizes they would like to reuse properties from other components in different hierarchies via shadow mixins.
By now we've defined a whole shadow language, represented as a series of ad hoc constructions embedded in string-valued attributes of HTML. A key strength of HTML is supposed to be ease-of-use for non-programmers (this is often described by the meaningless phrase declarative). Once you have added all this machinery, you've lost that alleged ease of use - but you don't have a real programming language either.
Shadow World 3: Imports
Imports themselves are a kind of shadow language even in a real programming language. Of course imports have other flaws, as I've discussed here and here, but that is not my focus today. Whenever you have imports, you find demands for conditional imports, for an aliasing mechanism (import-as) for a form of iteration (wildcards). All these mechanisms already exist in the underlying language and yet they are typically unavailable because imports are second-class constructs.
Beyond Criticism
It is very easy to criticize other people's work. To quote Mark Twain:
I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value
So I had better offer some constructive alternative to these shadow languages. With respect to modularity, Newspeak is my answer. With respect to UI, something along the lines of the Hopscotch UI framework is how I'd like to tackle the problem. In that area, we still have significant work to do on data binding, which is one of the greatest strengths of polymer. In any case, I plan to devote a separate post to show how one can build an internal DSL for UI inside a clean programming language.
The point of this post is to highlight the inherent cost of going the shadow route. Shadow worlds come in to being in various ways. One way is when we introduce second class constructs because we are reluctant to face up to the price of making something a real value. This is the case in the module and import scenarios above. Another way is when one defines an external DSL (as in the HTML/Polymer example). In all these cases, one will always find that the shadows are lacking.
Let's try and do better.


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"ANTONIO LÓPEZ GARCÍA" carries on the tradition of Spanish realism in a concurrent MFA exhibition opening on April 13, with paintings, drawings, and sculpture. This contemporary (born in 1936) artist focuses his keen eye on the prosaic — from a bathroom sink to his family and friends.
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This chapter provides a high-level description of the Oracle Business Data Synchronization Server (BDSS) architecture
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 2.1, "Overview of the Oracle Business Data Synchronization Server Architecture"
Oracle Business Data Synchronization Server (BDSS) utilizes a hub-and-spoke architecture that enables synchronization between PIM servers. The hub provides the core synchronization functions and is PIM-server agnostic, enabling connections for any type of PIM server. Connectors, which send data to and retrieve data from the PIM servers, comprise the spokes of the system. Figure 2-1 illustrates an example of this architecture, one that results in fewer connectors between PIM servers. Even in multi-server topologies, this simpler synchronization topology addresses the potential issue of data feedback looping between the PIM servers.
Note:For Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g release 1, BDSS ships with support for Microsoft Exchange.
BDSS consists of the following two main components:
The Hub, which orchestrates the synchronization of data for the system, includes the following subsystems (illustrated in Figure 2-2):
The Dispatcher first reads the set of users that it must send to the Engine and verifies that users on the list are available for synchronization. After it is called, the Dispatcher process divides the entire set of users for synchronization into batches and calls the Engine component. This subdivision of the user list allows for improved scalability of the system, as several Engine components can be made available. Dispatcher calls can be balanced across the available Engine components as well.
Note:The Dispatcher does not send users to the Engine when those users are currently undergoing synchronization.
An external scheduler runs the Dispatcher at set time intervals. BDSS does not ship with a scheduler. You can use any scheduling service, such as the Windows scheduler service or the Oracle Enterprise Manager scheduler.
Note:Although Oracle suggests a default interval of 5 minutes, you can select a scheduling interval that provides performance and scalability to suit the environment.
The Engine receives the list of users from the Dispatcher and synchronizes each of these users at the same time. The Engine contacts each of the connectors to receive from the PIM servers a set of records that have changed for the user. The extraction sets are combined to form a complete set of changes to be pushed back to the PIM servers.
Note:The Engine only notifies a PIM server about records that have changed on other PIM servers. It does not inform the PIM server of changes identified from its own extraction set.
A conflict can arise if both PIM servers change a record during the same synchronization cycle. The Engine determines which changes to keep and which to discard based on the relative priority of each connector domain involved. (You can configure the priority assigned to each connector domain.) After the Engine determines which records comprise the result set, it pushes them to the PIM servers and then tracks the user's success.
The Hub itself does not read the data that it receives from the connectors. Instead, it reads the ID tag for each record and builds a record map that correlates the records of the different PIM servers. The Hub passes the data to the connectors.
The Engine also includes the Run-Time Configuration Manager, which stores and retrieves the data required for synchronizing users. This data includes component configuration settings, user information, mappings, user record information, and information about PIM server instances.
Connectors standardize communication between the Hub and the PIM server that they service. Connectors update the data for connector domains, such as a contact or a task. During a synchronization session, the connectors retrieve changed data for a user from their respective PIM servers and transform it into the Hub format. They then pass the transformed data to the Hub. The connectors also transform the data from the Hub into the format appropriate to the PIM server. The connectors use Web services to both retrieve user records and return them to the Engine. For more information, see Section 2.2, "Overview of Connectors."
For Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g release 1, BDSS ships with Oracle BDSS Connector for Microsoft Exchange 2007 (the Exchange 2007 Connector). The Exchange 2007 Connector uses the Exchange 2007 Exchange Web Service (EWS) when it interacts with a user's Microsoft Exchange mailbox. The Exchange 2007 Connector supports synchronization of Calendar and Task data.
Note:Using the BDSS Connector API, you can create connectors that synchronize any domain, such as service requests or opportunities. For more information, see Appendix C, "Connector API."
BDSS works on a set of users that are configured through MBeans (managed beans) by mapping a user login from each of the end systems to a central representation of the user called a Hub user. The Dispatcher can be triggered either by the schedule, or when a connector sends an event notification to the Hub when a user has changed a record. Scheduler-based synchronization synchronizes all users at each interval, even if some users have no changes. Event-based synchronization is more efficient, as users only synchronize when there is data to be synchronized.
You can set the following synchronization options for each user on each connector domain. For example, if synchronization is enabled for task items for a user, then BDSS automatically synchronizes the task for that user.
The inbound direction limits the exchange of data for an entity (such as a domain, user, or a connector) to only pushing records and record updates to the PIM server. Changes to the records on the PIM server are not propagated to other systems.
Outbound direction enables the connector to extract Create, Update, and Delete record event data from the PIM server. The outbound direction limits the synchronization for an entity by only allowing changes to be collected from a PIM server. No records or changes are pushed to a PIM server.
No synchronization of data occurs.
Full synchronization enables bidirectional (that is, both inbound and outbound) synchronization.
You can configure the synchronization direction for any connector, domain, and user. For more information, see Section 4.1.2, "Specifying the Synchronization Direction."
A typical flow demonstrating a synchronization session between a BPEL server and the Microsoft Exchange server is as follows:
The Scheduler triggers the Dispatcher.
The Dispatcher searches for Hub users who are available for synchronization, meaning those users who, despite having been enabled for synchronization, are not currently synchronizing.
The Dispatcher chunks these users into batches.
The Dispatcher sends the batches to the Engine.
The Engine starts a synchronization session for each user.
The synchronization session performs the following operations:
Determines the appropriate PIM servers for the user.
Determines the domains (such as Tasks or Contacts) for the user.
Sends an extract message to the connector instance for each connector. This extract message lists the user domains for which record changes are requested.
The connectors return the extract response to the Engine. Each extract response contains information describing new, updated, and deleted records for a particular connector domain.
The Engine merges the extract response records, resolving conflicts as needed.
The Engine sends the appropriate record changes to each PIM server.
The user's synchronization process terminates.
The Engine tracks the user's domain records that have been exported successfully from a PIM server using connector-provided data known as the synchronization state. Synchronization state is monitored at the connector domain level. For more information about synchronization state, see Appendix C, "Connector API."
Event-based synchronization reduces the amount of processing required of the Hub. It also reduces network and database usage by eliminating unneeded user synchronization sessions. Using event-based synchronization, the Hub synchronizes users only when record changes occur. If there are no changes for a user, then the Hub does not synchronize the user.
User changes that affect the domains do not trigger synchronization sessions; as in standard synchronization (described in Section 2.1.2), the scheduler dictates the frequency of the synchronization sessions. The event-based synchronization process is initiated when a PIM server notifies its connector that a user's records have changed. The connector then notifies the Hub and sets an event flag that identifies the user as having changed records on the PIM server. When the Scheduler triggers a new synchronization cycle, the Dispatcher batches this user to the Engine to undergo synchronization.
BDSS works with connectors and PIM servers that can flag users for event-based synchronization and with PIM servers that cannot flag users for event-based synchronization. In systems where all of the connectors and PIM servers can flag users for event-based synchronization, the Dispatcher batches users with change flags. When synchronization is started for theses users, the Hub synchronizes them as it would in a scheduled synchronization session (that is, the Hub requests changes from the connector, since changes may have occurred to a user's PIM data after the Hub received the connector's initial notification). The Engine does not process users or send an extract message to the connector during the synchronization cycle. During these synchronization sessions, the synchronization direction is Inbound Only for the unflagged user. In systems having connectors that cannot flag events, the Hub synchronizes all of the users that belong to these connectors for event-based synchronization.
If a BDSS connector cannot support sending event notifications, then the Hub cannot support the event-based method to initiate user synchronization sessions. For example, if changes were made in a system where a connector was unable to detect changes, the Hub could not synchronize the records for a user unless a change to a record was made in a system that has a connector that supports event notification for that same user.
Each time BDSS starts (or restarts), it sets change flags for users who synchronize on all of the domains that are set for either Full or Inbound synchronization. These flags enable connectors to create subscriptions for the user. A connector creates separate subscriptions for each domain if it can to do so.
Note:You enable event-based synchronization by setting the
SUPPORTS_EVENTS_FLG, and
USER_EVENT_FLG flags in the CONNECTORS table.
The Event-Based Synchronization Flow
The Dispatcher retrieves Hub users who are available for synchronization.
The Dispatcher chunks these users into batches.
The Dispatcher sends these users to the Engine.
The Engine starts a synchronization session for each user. The synchronization session performs the following:
Determines the appropriate PIM servers for user.
Determines if there are changes made to the user's domains (such as Tasks or Contacts).
Sends an extract message to the connector instance for each connector. This extract message lists the user domains for which record changes are requested.
The connectors return the extract response to the Engine.
The Engine processes the extract responses and then pushes data to the connectors.
The user's synchronization process terminates. The Hub resets the change flag for the connector user. If the connector does not support events, then the Hub leaves the change flags in the state that causes synchronization.
The connectors use Web services to communicate user records to the Hub. They implement the BDSS Connector API as described in Appendix C, "Connector API," which details the BDSS Connector Interface, Connector Run-Time Interface, and Engine Callback Interface. A connector consists of the following three components:
Note:Although you do not have to implement these three components, Oracle recommends their implementation as a best practice.
The Hub Transport implements the connector interface and performs data exchange between the Engine and the connector.
The Transformer translates data into both the Hub schema and the schema of the PIM servers. You can define how the Hub formats the data and freely revise it to meet customer needs. Using Oracle JDeveloper you can create the XSLTs (XML Transformations) that map the XSDs (XML Schema Definitions) of the Hub and PIM server. See also Chapter 8, "Mapping Connector Fields to Hub Fields."
Note:You can create and revise the Hub schema, but you cannot change the connector schema. The connector schema is created by the developers of the connector and must remain fixed.
The PIM Transport uses the PIM API interfaces and performs data exchange between the connector and the PIM server. As part of the data exchange, the PIM Transport translates data between the PIM XML schema representation and the PIM server representation.
Synchronization between the Hub and connectors is bidirectional by default, but can be configured to restrict the synchronization direction to either inbound-only or outbound-only.
The components interact as follows upon receiving data from the PIM server:
The PIM Transport collects a record set for a domain using a native PIM server API. This data is in the format specific to the PIM Server.
The PIM Transport converts each record to a PIM XML format that conforms to the PIM XSD defined for the domain to which the record belongs.
The PIM Transport passes each PIM XML record to the Transformer, which performs the following actions to translate the PIM XML record into the Hub XML record:
Determines the synchronization direction (inbound) to apply the correct XLST document (PIM to Hub). See also Section 5.4, "Creating Connector Configuration Profiles."
Invokes an API that applies the XSLT document to each record. This XLST contains the schema definitions for both the Hub and the PIM server.
Returns the Hub XML record to the Hub Transport.
The Hub Transport calls an API to build a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message containing the Hub XML record set.
The Hub Transport then calls an API to push the SOAP message to the Hub.
Outbound synchronization begins with the Hub sending a SOAP message containing a single record in Hub XML format to the connector. The connector then transforms this XML record to an appropriate format required by the target PIM server.
The components interact as follows upon receiving data from the PIM server:
The Hub Transport receives the SOAP message containing the Hub XML record.
The Hub Transport then passes the Hub XML set to the Transformer.
The Transformer performs the following actions to translate the record from Hub XML to the appropriate PIM XML:
Identifies the synchronization direction (outbound) to apply the appropriate XSLT to the Hub XML record (Hub to PIM).
Calls an API to apply the XSLT.
Passes the converted record to the Hub Transport.
The Hub Transport passes the PIM XML record to the PIM Transport.
The PIM Transport converts the PIM XML into a format needed by the native PIM API used to push the record to the PIM server.
The PIM Transport sends the PIM API-formatted record to the PIM server.
Errors can be integrated into a BPEL task flow to alert about administrators data errors that occur during synchronization. For example, if a user inadvertently creates a record with a character in the description that a third-party PIM Server cannot accept, then that PIM Server rejects the record during the next synchronization session. As a result, BDSS raises a BPEL event with the record summary and the error. The administrator sets up a BPEL process that checks the error code and then sends an e-mail telling the user to remove the unsupported character from the record.
An event is raised whenever BDSS logs a Critical, Error, or Warning message to its log files. BDSS can also raise a BPEL event to a BPEL server or web service.


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A digital boon for classical music?
New high-quality audio files may entice audiofiles to buy classical fare on the web.
When Amazon.com recently joined the push to sell digital downloads without copy protection, the implications were particularly meaningful to classical-music fans. By removing the layer of software known as digital rights management, or DRM, customers can not only play their music on any device they choose (PCs, Macs, and iPods), but they also may stand to benefit from improved sound quality.
Even with copy protection, classical music has surprised many doomsayers with its robust sales over the past year. On Apple's iTunes, which controls over 70 percent of the digital market, classical purchases account for 12 percent of sales, four times its share of the CD market. Last year, classical was the industry's fastest-growing musical genre, despite the closing of Tower Records, which represented 30 percent of the total classical market share (this bump was partly due to popular crossover acts such as the Italian crooner Andrea Bocelli and the operatic boy band Il Divo). Industry figures are hopeful that dropping copy protection – thus allowing for big, clear-sounding and noncompressed audio files – will generate even stronger interest in classical downloads.
"It will definitely draw more classical listeners to the download," says Mark Forlow, the vice president of EMI Classics US, whose catalogue includes such artists as conductor Simon Rattle and violinist Maxim Vengerov as well as historical recordings by soprano Maria Callas and cellist Jacqueline Du Pré. "For as long as recorded sound has been in existence, the people who buy classical music like to have the best sound."
A week prior to Amazon's decision, EMI announced it would become the first major label to drop DRM from its iTunes catalogue starting later this month. Mr. Forlow believes there is a strong demand for DRM-free music even though it will come at a premium cost of $1.29, which is $0.30 more than iTunes's usual $.99 rate.
Online retailers report that classical consumers usually prefer large audio files that eat up hard-drive space and take longer to download to compressed files that are smaller but sound inferior. At Magnatune, an independent online record label featuring artists such as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, files come in five different formats, from CD-quality WAV files to compressed MP3s. Shannon Coulter, Magnatune's director of A&R, says the WAV format is the most popular choice. "Real classical music fans tend to be audiophiles," she notes.
Similarly, the Philadelphia Orchestra sells downloads of its performances both as traditional MP3s as well as noncompressed FLAC files, which feature double the encoding rate. Christopher Amos, the orchestra's director of electronic media, says that about half of all sales are in the FLAC format. "We're dealing with a very sophisticated audience," he says. "We've had a lot of traction with specialists."
Others are more skeptical that die-hard classical fans will abandon CDs in favor of downloads, compression or no compression.
"Generally speaking, with classical music there are so many physical discs that you can buy for $8 – uncompressed CDs with liner notes," says Eric Feidner, the president of ArkivMusic.com, an online classical CD store. "It doesn't make a lot of sense to spend the same amount or more for a digital download, which is inherently inferior."
ArkivMusic recently surveyed 4,700 of its customers about their purchasing habits. Nearly two-thirds said they don't listen to music on an iPod and three quarters have never purchased classical downloads. A full 82 percent have never bought music on iTunes.
Many industry analysts say that ultimately, stores like iTunes and eMusic serve the newcomer well, but are less geared to the enthusiast looking to delve deeper.
"Classical-music fans are deeper fans and they feel frustrated with being serviced by traditional retail," says David Card, a senior analyst at Jupiter Research. At the same time, he believes that classical represents a low-risk genre with which to experiment with DRM.
"Labels are concerned that DRM won't jump-start the market enough. If I'm a label, I'm not going to go DRM-free with the latest Shakira song. I'm going with some classical stuff and see if I can command that $1.29 premium."


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The Ascendant represents our self-image, our physical appearance, and the way we project ourselves to the world. The Moon represents our emotions, home, and family. When your Moon makes and aspect to your partner's Ascendant, or vice-versa, you will be sensitive to each other's feelings.
Moon conjunct Ascendant in Synastry
In the case of a conjunction between one person's Moon and another person's Ascendant, a strong emotional connection is indicated. In this case, the way the Ascendant person projects him or herself has a strong emotional impact on the Moon person.
The Moon person provides security to the Ascendant person. As a result, expressing your feelings to one another comes naturally to you both in each other's presence. You will easily reveal information to one another, no matter how personal the information is!
The Moon person is likely to feel dependent on the Ascendant to satisfy her emotional needs. On the downside, this aspect can produce excess emotions, due to the ease in which you express yourselves to one another.
In one of my previous relationships, my ex's Moon was conjunct my Ascendant. Like the description above suggests, he revealed an incredible amount of personal information to me, almost immediately!
He told me he had never felt so comfortable with expressing his emotions to anyone. In fact, he tended to reveal a bit too much; he told me things I didn't even want or need to know!
He was completely dependent on me for emotional support, which I personally found a bit draining. In addition, his physical attraction to me was through the roof. This is because a man's Moon (along with his Venus) is the prime indicator of what he is looking for in a mate.
As such, my physical appearance and self-image were ideal to him. Indeed, he strongly felt I was the one he would marry, but unfortunately, I didn't feel the same way.
Moon trine or sexile Ascendant in Synastry
The trine and sextile aspects between one person's Moon and another's Ascendant indicate a similar energy as the conjunction, but without the threat of emotional excesses. In this case, you find it easy to express your emotions to one another.
This aspect favors affection, warmth and kindness, as well as mutual support. You are sensitive to one another's moods, and know how to reassure each other. There is a strong feeling of acceptance and feeling loved by one another.
Moon square Ascendant in Synastry
The square aspect between the Moon and Ascendant in synastry can pose some problems for a couple. In this case, you are overly sensitive to one another's moods, which can lead to disappointments and hurt feelings.
The Moon person is likely to display excess emotions to the Ascendant person, which can put the Ascendant person on edge. As emotional outbursts continue, the Ascendant person may feel they are walking on eggshells around the Moon person in order to avoid further emotional chaos.
There is a feeling of being misunderstood and unwanted on the part of the Moon person. This aspect can also indicate differences in families or upbringing, which can cause further problems for the couple.
Moon opposite Ascendant in Synastry
The opposition between the Moon and Ascendant are easier to handle than the square. In fact, this is a common aspect to find in the synastry charts of married couples.
In this case, one person's Moon is conjunct the other person's Descendant, which indicates the Moon person expresses her emotions in a way that is ideal to the Descendant person. Family and domestic issues are important between the two of you.
This aspect indicates a keen awareness of each other's feelings, which can lead to emotional outbursts and hurt feelings. However, the Moon person is very supportive of the Ascendant person, while the Ascendant person sees the Moon person as nurturing and caring.
In fact, the Ascendant person may become dependent on the Moon person for emotional support, and vice-versa.
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JUPITER, Fla. -- By the end of the day Tuesday, all 27 pitchers in the Cardinals' big league camp had thrown their first session of live batting practice. Those sessions covered four days, with Adam Wainwright and Joe Kelly highlighting the group of seven pitchers who faced hitters on Tuesday.
The significance in all this isn't so much that pitchers are throwing to hitters -- that's a normal part of a pitcher's progression each spring -- but that the Cardinals have not had to slow any of their pitchers down due to injuries or not being deemed ready to increase workload.
"It shows the guys really came prepared," manager Mike Matheny said. "For the most part, I think it's been a great team effort with nutrition guys, strength and conditioning guys and our medical team to make sure to put these guys in a position to where they can go out and do what they've been doing."
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Absolutely fantastic, the space looks stunning. I wish I could work on projects like this, it just seems like so much fun.ReplyDelete
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DENVER (AP) — The game between the Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants was suspended after the second rain delay Thursday, with the score tied 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning.
A makeup date was still being determined. The Giants next visit Coors Field on Sept. 1-3.
The game was interrupted for 82 minutes before the fourth. The rain moved back in two innings later, delaying the game for another 84 minutes and leading the umpires to suspend action.
Although the weather cleared up, the field was saturated. The grounds crew dumped bags and bags of diamond dry on the infield just to try and make it playable.
Wilin Rosario tied the game at 2 when he hit into a double play in the fifth.
Hunter Pence had a solo homer for the Giants in the fourth and Pablo Sandoval drove in a run with a double.
Sandoval also had a solo homer overturned by a challenge in the second.
Fans were ushered out of their seats and sent to the concourse area as a storm rolled through the city, complete with lightning, heavy rain and even a brief tornado warning for the vicinity. The second wave of weather wasn't nearly as severe.
Neither starter returned after the first stoppage.
Jorge De La Rosa was cruising along, too, not allowing a hit and striking out three in three innings. The hard-throwing lefty has been bothered by a balky back and given the length of the delay, the Rockies went to the bullpen.
Same with the Giants after Tim Hudson went three innings and allowed five hits. Hudson missed his start last Friday because of a strained left hip.
Michael Cuddyer gave the Rockies a 1-0 lead in the second when his two-out infield single drove in Rosario. The Colorado lineup was missing slugger Carlos Gonzalez, who sat out because of a swollen left index finger. Manager Walt Weiss said before the game that Gonzalez's injury is a "day-to-day thing."
NOTES: The Giants placed RHP Santiago Casilla (strained right hamstring) on the disabled list Thursday and recalled RHP George Kontos from Triple-A Fresno. ... The Giants will give starter Matt Cain (strained right hamstring) a "couple of days and re-evaluate once we get back to San Francisco," MGR Bruce Bochy said. Cain felt a twinge in his hamstring after his final pitch in the third before leaving Wednesday's game. ... The Giants return home for a three-games series against Minnesota. ... Colorado embarks on a nine-game road swing starting Friday in Atlanta.
DENVER (AP) — The game between the Colorado Rockies and San Francisco Giants was suspended after the second rain delay Thursday, with the score tied 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning.


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In a move that could lead to a ban on selling its products in the United States, the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Arista does in fact infringe on a number of Cisco's technology patents.
Arista now must decide if it wants to ask the US government to overturn a so-called "import ban" or ask that an appeals court toss the decision, observers say. It could also decide to build products in the US – a move that Cisco says would "not only would violate the ITC orders, but the federal court has the authority to enjoin local manufacturing of infringing products."
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Cisco's reaction to the ruling was tenacious: "This marks the end of Arista's ability to mislead its shareholders and customers about the infringing nature of their products. The ITC remedies include an exclusion order, which would ban all Arista switches and their components from importation into the U.S. and a cease and desist blocking the use to build infringing products in the US comprised any imported components," said Mark Chandler, General Counsel for Cisco in his blog.
"Arista has as much as acknowledged the infringement of the Private VLAN patents, announcing that they will discontinue the private VLAN feature "for now," belying their claim that they had developed workarounds. The remedies also include a cease and desist order prohibiting the marketing, sale, and distribution of infringing Arista switches in the U.S. These orders are scheduled to go into effect at the end of the Presidential Review Period on August 23, 2016. Arista made much of the fact that it had challenged the validity of Cisco's patents. Arista did not challenge the validity of the Private VLAN patents, however, and the Patent and Trademark Office declined to institute review proceedings on six claims in the SysDB patent which the ITC found infringed," Chandler stated.
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For its part Arista was just as unyielding and said the next step is for the "U.S. Trade Representative to review the matter and decide whether to disapprove the limited exclusion order and cease and desist order. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Appeal Board (PTAB) has also recently instituted an Inter Partes Review of certain claims of U.S. Patent Nos. 7,162,537 [a Cisco patent having to do with database management in a router] to determine their validity."
"Arista respects the Commission's decision and intends to fully comply with the orders," said Marc Taxay, Senior Vice President, General Counsel for Arista. "Despite Cisco's rhetoric claiming that the lawsuits are a defensive move to protect its intellectual property, these actions are clearly part of a broader effort to use litigation to preserve Cisco's market position. If allowed to succeed, Cisco's scheme would have a chilling effect on innovation. While we will defend our rights in these actions, our primary focus remains on the continued supply of products to our customers."
Arista also added that it had released a new version of its "EOS software containing design-arounds that it believes address the ITC's findings with respect to the features implicated in the Final Determination. Arista intends to seek appropriate regulatory approvals for these design-arounds."
The work-arounds could end up being a key point in this case, experts added.
"The ITC is barring Arista products that violate the Cisco patents from the US market. However, Arista had stated previously that they have developed workarounds for any products that may be in question. Therefore, it would be surprising if Arista did not anticipate and is already prepared for this ruling," said Jim Duffy, a senior analyst with 451 Research.
Cisco began its legal proceedings on December 19, 2014 by filing two lawsuits against Arista. One suit is for patent infringement, which charges Arista with violating 14 Cisco patents for 12 features in the Arista EOS operating system. The second suit is for extensive copying of Cisco's user manuals and command line structures, right down to the grammatical errors within them, Network World wrote at the time.
The complaint alleged violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the United States and sale of certain network devices, related software, and components thereof that infringe patents asserted by Cisco Systems. Cisco wants the ITC to issue a limited exclusion order and a cease and desist order.
Arista in January filed a counterclaim to Cisco's copyright infringement suit in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, for antitrust and unfair competition. Arista alleges Cisco conducts a "bait and switch" with its command line interface in which it claims it is an industry standard and then attempts to penalize competitors for emulating it. The claim in February became a lstandalone lawsuit.
The ITC in April granted a full review of certain patents in the now 15-month old patent suit between Cisco and Arista.
Specifically the ITC granted full review of the three patents that Arista is allegedly infringing under the initial determination issued by the presiding judge on Feb 2. In February the ITC made an initial determination that Arista Networks infringed on three Cisco patents in its switches -- patents associated with a central database for managing configuration data (SysDB) and private VLANs.
At the time of that ruling Cisco said, "none of the patents have been proposed for or adopted as industry standards. And all patents we asserted against Arista were invented either by Cisco employees who became Arista executives, or by engineers who worked for Arista executives when employed at Cisco."


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As the Canadian Parliament opened yesterday for a new session, Governor General Michaëlle Jean dedicated a small portion of her Speech from the Throne to highlighting the Conservative government's plans to open up the wireless industry to foreign investment. As anyone who even closely pays attention to Canadian news will remember, it was just a few short months ago when Industry Minister Tony Clement over-ruled the CRTC's decision to bar the launch of what is now WIND Mobile. Since then, the controversy over the move has died off, but it looks like what we experience in December could easily balloon into something much bigger. Here is what Jean said:
"Our Government will open Canada's doors further to venture capital and to foreign investment in key sectors, including the satellite and telecommunications industries, giving Canadian firms access to the funds and expertise they need. While safeguarding Canada's national security, our Government will ensure that unnecessary regulation does not inhibit the growth of Canada's uranium mining industry by unduly restricting foreign investment. It will also expand investment promotion in key markets."
So far there is no official word as to whether or not the government will attempt to amend the Telecommunications Act which stipulates that wireless carriers must be no more than 46.7% owned by foreigners and no less than 80% controlled by Canadians, but it certainly doesn't seem as if there are many other options.
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The Music Man1962 Romance | Comedy | Family | Musical
Meredith Wilson's hit 1957 Broadway musical was transferred to the screen in larger-than-life fashion in 1962. Robert Preston repeats his legendary stage performance as fast-talking con man Harold Hill, who goes from town to town selling citizens on starting a boy's band, then extracts money from them by ordering instruments and uniforms, with the promise that he'll teach the kids how to be musicians. Once he's collected his bankroll, Hill skips town, leaving the kids in the lurch. Looking for new suckers in Iowa, Hill arrives in River City, where he declares that the only way to save the youth of River City from the lure of the poolroom is to organize a boy's band. He charms the mayor's wife Eulalie (Hermione Gingold) into forming a ladies' dance committee and sets his sights on winning over local music teacher Marian Paroo (Shirley Jones). Marian rightly considers Hill a fraud, especially when he espouses the Think System of learning music: if you think a tune, he claims, you can play it. But Marian becomes Hill's staunchest ally when her young brother Winthrop (Ronny Howard), sullen and withdrawn since the death of his father, exuberantly comes out of his shell at the prospect of joining Hill's band; and Marian's budding romance with the charming but unreliable Hill ultimately brings her out of her own shell as well. Marion Hargrove's script uses most of the original play, with a handful of amusing expansions, especially in the roles played by Gingold and by Buddy Hackett as Hill's comic sidekick.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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In election 2008, don't forget Angry White Man
Angry White Man
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008
[/COLOR]There is a great amount of interest in this year's presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party's nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn't looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — "disenfranchised," "marginalized" and "voiceless" — don't resonate with him. "Press 'one' for English" is a curse-word to him. He's used to picking up the tab, whether it's the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a "living document" open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he's willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn't bother him.
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don't matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He's a man's man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn't ask for a penny. He's the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he's a man, not a dishrag. If they're looking for someone to walk all over, they've got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says "Yes, sir" and "No, ma'am."
He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
He's not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He's willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don't pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It's not that she is a woman. It's that she is who she is. It's the liberal victim groups she panders to, the "poor me" attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.
Gary Hubbell is a regular columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly.
I would have prefered this to be called the Angry American. But, I like it none the less.