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I suspect that all the advance warning in the world cannot prepare someone for the experience of being in the path of a viciously destructive Category 5 cyclone.
Packing gale force winds in excess of 175 mph, virtually everything in the storm's path will take a beating — life and limb in jeopardy; home and structures destroyed or severely damaged; massive trees uprooted; huge waves pounding beaches and flooding towns; cars; trucks and boats overturned; and mangled winds whipping deadly objects through the air — all culminating in immense carnage and destruction.
This was the experience recently of the Tongan people living in the Ha'apai Island chain in the Kingdom of Tonga. Initial reports indicated that more than 70 percent of the structures in the cyclone's path were damaged or destroyed, including the homes of 50 percent of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on those islands.
The LDS Church members jumped into action, providing supplies, manpower and emergency items, according to news releases from the church. Donations from Mormons on other islands poured into rescue centers. Outside agencies also jumped into action as did Tongans on other islands, sending a wide variety of emergency and medical supplies, and money to aid the stricken people.
LDS chapels, sturdy concrete structures that survived the storm, were opened to house those in need.
My son is currently a missionary in Tonga, serving in the Nuku'alofa area on the island of Tonga. We didn't hear from Matt immediately after the cyclone hit, but I knew early on that he was not in the storm's path. I'm sure he is busy, as are all the Mormon missionaries in those islands, helping to load supplies on planes and assist with clean up and in any way that they can.
I have a colleague at BYU who is Tongan, and when I talked to him earlier this week his first question was, "How's your son?" I told him I hadn't heard from him, but I knew he was fine and my concern and prayers were for the people in the cyclone's path, knowing how difficult this would be for them.
Forty percent of the people in Tonga live below the poverty line and live in small and simple lodgings with little or no food storage or supplies. On a few islands people are even without electricity.
They depend on nature for much of their food — root foods that they can extract from the soil, fish from the sea, food from bushes or food that can be had from trees. When a natural disaster strikes they are in great jeopardy because root foods are uprooted and rot; trees are down; dead fish float in troubled seas; water sources are contaminated; sitting water putrefies, and rather quickly disease, hunger and famine become serious problems.
Such conditions might panic those of us who live in fast-paced, complex and complicated civilizations. However, my Tongan friend taught me a lesson as we spoke with one another. He explained that fellow Tongans would quickly come to the aid of those in Cyclone Ian's path and they have. Others would reach out and assist them, and that too is happening.
Furthermore, the vast majority of the Tongan people's needs are simple. Their structures and the few material goods that they have can be replaced. They are an unpretentious, humble people. They love to gather to spend time with friends and loved ones. They will give you the shirt off their backs and happily put a meal before you even though they might not know where their next meal is coming from.
Tonga is not a utopian community. The people have their share of challenges and problems. Yet, minus the myriad toys and gadgets, the lofty degrees, the quest for money and the conspicuous consumption found in many western societies, they will respond to what has happened in simple, humble ways. They will rebuild their spare, small, little-cluttered homes, replace the sleeping mats on the floor, return to their simple way of life, and take great joy in the fact that there was little human carnage. And they will go on about their lives.
For the many Tongans living on those islands who are members of the LDS Church, as my Tongan colleague explained, they will derive a straightforward, clear message from what has happened. They will not spend hours and energy devising and applying convoluted weather theories as to why this happened. They will not point fingers or lay blame when every condition and issue associated with the storm is not addressed.
Instead, he explained, they will think that perhaps they need to reform their lives, make some changes, and draw closer to God. He predicted that my son would be busy over the next few months, helping to reactivate and bring souls to Jesus Christ.
I certainly can, and should, find ways to assist the people of Tonga at this time and should assist any community where a natural disaster strikes. Christians can hardly do anything less and call themselves disciples of Christ. Yet, perhaps my attitude and outreach pale in comparison to what I might take from these simple, faithful, humble people. Perhaps they've got it a little bit "righter" than me.
I may have more material possessions, and live in grand comfort, but in many ways they seem more content. They focus on friends, family, and their faith shines forth as they trust God to watch over them and to provide that which they need.
I may be very well-educated, but I still have a lot to learn.
Kristine Frederickson writes on issue-oriented topics that affect members of the LDS Church worldwide in her column "LDS World." She teaches part-time at BYU. Her views do not necessarily represent those of BYU.
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You read that right. In honor of WoW's 5-year anniversary, in the upcoming Patch 3.2.2, Onyxia will make her triumphant return to the world of Azeroth!
The patch will convert Onyxia's Lair to a 10- and 25-player dungeon, along with new items whose models match the old-school gear available in the vanilla instance, like Tier 2 helms. Additional rewards include a 310% speed flying mount modeled after Onyxia herself!
As a bonus, anyone who logs in during the 5-year anniversary event in November will get an Onyxia Whelpling pet.
The full announcement after the break!
The full announcement reads as follows:
She has lurked in her lair and done battle with the many brave adventurers who travelled to that familiar location over the years. Now, in honor of the World of Warcraft 5-year anniversary, the dreaded brood mother Onyxia is being revamped to make a return to the forefront of Azeroth, as part of our big plans for the upcoming 3.2.2 content patch.
This permanent update to Onyxia will convert the dungeon into 10- and 25-player modes. We will be adding new items to Onyxia's loot table that have the same model as some of the classic loot from this dungeon, like Tier 2 helms, with stats updated to match the current level of content. There will be a special new item too: a normal drake-sized 310% speed flying mount modeled after Onyxia herself called an Onyxia Broodling. We will also be updating the encounter mechanics to be more fitting for modern raiding, but we can guarantee players will get to experience the frightening horror of deep breaths once again.
Then for a limited time, after the 5-year anniversary event officially begins in November, anybody who logs in will receive an Onyxia Brood Whelpling pet.
We're very excited to bring this classic encounter back to provide a fun new experience for both new and veteran players. Further details will be available in the near future, and we will be setting up the Public Test Realms soon to help test out this fight along with all the new content we have planned for the patch. Keep an eye on the forums for updates!

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New Mexico Tech Extends Strategic Agreement with SAIC, Nov. 20, 2007
by George Zamora
(Left to right) New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. Lopez; David Williams, SAIC vice president for business development; and Charles W. Zang, SAIC senior vice president and general manager of the science and systems engineering solutions business unit.
SOCORRO, Nov. 20, 2007 – Top officials from New Mexico Tech and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) recently signed off on an extension of a strategic agreement forged in 2003 between the public university and the private company to continue jointly pursuing research and educational programs in areas of mutual interest until January 2013.
New Mexico Tech President Daniel H. López signed the document on behalf of the university, and Charles W. Zang, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC's Science and Systems Engineering Solutions Business Unit, signed on behalf of the research and engineering services company. The formal signing ceremony for addendum No. 2 to the original strategic agreement was held on Tuesday afternoon, November 20, at Brown Hall, the university's main administration building.
One of the immediate objectives as outlined in the revised agreement calls for New Mexico Tech and SAIC to collaborate on developing priorities and implementation strategies for new programs and expanding existing programs.
Other mutual goals agreed to by New Mexico Tech and SAIC include increasing efforts, funding sources, programs and facilities related to Homeland Security technology and training, international law enforcement and counter-terrorism training, and energy development and transportation initiatives.


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Wabash Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work Todayby Jim Amidon • January 21, 2005 Share:
With all of the bad weather in the last month, I've been asked several times if Wabash ever closes or cancels classes. Every time, I tell the same, tired story of the day back in the 1983-84 school year when I learned the official policy of the College.
I was a freshman disc jockey on the campus radio station. It was snowing hard and we already had about eight or 10 inches of snow on the ground. The phone rang and on the other end was the late dean of students, Norman Moore, who briskly said, "If anybody asks, we never close."
But, in fact, we do cancel classes one afternoon each year, or at least we have for the last five years. We use the last Friday in January to celebrate our students in what has become an annual event: the Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work.
Classes are cancelled, Trustees and Alumni Board members are on campus, and the entire campus community descends on Detchon Center. What happens over the next three hours is pure magic. The students swap places with their faculty mentors and discuss, present, and perform their original scholarship and creative work.
Professors Charlie Blaich and Scott Feller drove the initial gatherings. They stole the idea from the national undergraduate research conferences they had attended and adapted the program for Wabash students.
So, this Friday, about 60 Wabash students will wear their best suits and present their material using teaching and learning techniques modeled by their favorite faculty members.
About half of the students will have poster presentations. This is the normal way of presenting scientific research at national conferences. Large posters summarize in general terms the methodology of the research and the outcomes. Each student will discuss the poster and the research it represents for about 90 minutes.
Faculty, other students, alumni, and friends of the college walk through International Hall, stop by the posters, and learn from the students about their work. This year posters will range from how some chemistry students researched the use of silicon chips for medicinal dispersal within the body to how one student spent his summer calibrating a modular neutron array.
Meanwhile, another 30 or so students will make oral presentations in 20-minute intervals. Four classrooms will run simultaneously with a range of topics true to the liberal arts. Two students will perform a violin and piano duet of a piece by Antonin Dvorak; another student will compare and contrast advertising campaigns for Viagra and Cialis; other students will present rhetorical criticisms.
It's a truly special day at Wabash. I hope you'll carve out a little time on your calendar—maybe cancel your own schedule—to spend time with the students of Wabash. No matter what your interests, there's sure to be a topic of two that will grab your attention.
The Celebration gets underway at 1 p.m. on Friday in Detchon Center. Refreshments will be served, and handy guidebooks help you determine where to be and when to catch the presentations you want to attend.
Everyone at Wabash works hard to prepare our young men for life after college. Come see the results of their hard work in the classroom and out.
Jim Amidon is Public Affairs Director and College secretary. He writes this weekly column for the Crawfordsville Journal Review.


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Christian businessman James Paris says he never read so much hate on his Twitter feed in more than a year of participation on the micro-blogging site.
After pointing tweeps (Twitter users) via link to his sarcastic blog post, Why The NFL Was 100% Right In Banning Rush Limbaugh, the tweets (comments) back to him came fast and mean.
"It's the first time since I have been on Twitter that I started receiving very hateful messages like 'You are a racist … You are not a Christian … You are the devil,'" Paris said.
Then came something Paris wasn't expecting: a one-week ban from Twitter.
"There was more than a 150 re-tweets of my article by various people who had come to my blog directly. I can only assume this ban is related to my Rush Limbaugh piece because that was really the only thing that happened last week and that's what Twitter is claiming as the time frame where I violated their terms of service," Paris said.
"People that were against Limbaugh were coming to my article after the re-tweets were posted thinking that they were going to read an article that would somehow buttress their viewpoint that the NFL was correct in banning Rush Limbaugh. When they realize they've been had … I believe that generated complaints to Twitter. I've never had one complaint from Twitter. I've never heard from them one way or the other. I honestly don't understand exactly what the reason is that they are banning me."
Paris responded to the ban by writing his post, Banned From Twitter For Supporting Rush Limbaugh, in which he states:
Well, I guess I know how Rush Limbaugh feels. This week I posted a blog piece supporting Rush and I received thousands of visits to my blog. I also engaged in probably one hundred 'debates' with people on Twitter about the whole Rush Limbaugh/NFL controversy. Today, I received the below message that I have been suspended from Twitter for one week. Obviously, someone did not like what I was saying in support of Rush…
What seems to be most upsetting to Paris is the page notification that comes up when people try to get to his Twitter page, username, "Jameslparis":
Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here.
"For me to spend a year-and-a-half building up a Twitter following and then to have my Twitter account shut off and then when people go to my Twitter page it says that I've been disconnected for 'strange activity' … as far as anyone else knows I could have been involved with child pornography or some type of scam," Paris said. "It really impugns my reputation for them to leave it so vague. It's their responsibility to tell me why I was banned in much more clear terms than what they did in that suspension letter.
"The actual suspension is posted up on my blog and it makes reference to the word 'bunch.' They don't use a numerical figure. They say that I violated their policy of spamming by posting to a quote 'bunch' of accounts. I'm not even exactly sure what that means. I do know that I personally was engaged with at least 100 people on Twitter about the whole Rush Limbaugh thing," he said.
Paris said he wasn't selling anything. "I never received any kind of screen warning that said, 'you are responding too much … stop.' I could never imagine that I am somehow dragging down their network or something with my meager activity.
"It was certainly just part of what I felt was the purpose of Twitter, which is social networking … going back and forth on issues and discussions. I had no idea that there was a limit to any of that. Especially something that was on topic," Paris said.
Paris said he has not received an explanation from Twitter despite sending a request for one to its public relations department by e-mail.
"I'm not a big believer in coincidence and I don't think this is a coincidence," Paris said. "And it was all in relation to the spike in activity that happened to coincide with the Rush Limbaugh article that I posted."
No response to a media request for an interview or statement from Twitter was received at the time of publication of this article.
Image found at James Paris business site, ChristianMoney.com.
Related News Release: Businessman launches 'Christian Chirp' after Twitter suspension


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i have taken to using edge as my video streaming browser, as it supports full HD.
after much googling, I was able to make a desktop short cut - (it has a wierd gobbldeygook program launch location), nake netflix the home page, and superimpose a netflix icon...
but I now want to make an inteliiremote profile.
1. how do I set intelliremote to detect edge
2. where do I find the keyboard shortcuts to program it for amazon video
3. ditto for netflix
I know these 2 are different but hopefully there;s a solution that will work for both - otherwise I guess I use firefox instead for on service and start over !
PS edge is here
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge.
I have assigned it to a button as an application event , done learn code, apply change , but neither option works
more googling and testing: this works from a CMD prompt
To start Microsoft Edge browser from command line use
explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge
but copy paste as an application event - does not work
update 2 - this worked but dunno why !
(from google)
Start -> Run -> shell:appsfolder , right-click Edge, create shortcut (on desktop), rename shortcut to "edge", move to C: folder.
then selected that as the application event and saved


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We all know and love Molly McAleer, and it doesn't take much fandom to know that if you love Molly, then you loooooooooooooooove her ornery, ill-behaved, incredibly handsome dog, Wags.
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Archive for November 16th, 2009
The Clutter Family Murders Changed The Way We Lived
by Sherry Stocking Kline
Nov 15, 2009
In 1959 The Clutter Murders Shattered Our Peaceful Life
There are times in your life when some event occurs and it changes your life in profound ways.
Fifty years ago, on November 15, 1959, when four members of the Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, it sent shock waves through our small community and especially in our farm home. And it changed the way our family lived and viewed the world.
We didn't know them. In fact, we lived hours away from Holcomb. But that murder changed the way our family lived.
The Family Was Murdered for About $40.00…
What we heard on television and read in the newspaper, was that the farm family of four had been murdered for about $40.00.
I remember my parents, my dad and mom sitting at the kitchen table, faces somber, frightened looking even, and my father, saying "If people will murder a family for so little, they will do anything."
(Later, we read that the murderers had heard in jail that the family kept a large amount of money at their home; but all we knew then was that an entire family had been brutally murdered for such a small sum.)
Murder was something that happened in far-away cities…
Murders like that were something you rarely heard of, they were something that happened in far-away large cities, not something that happened to Kansas farm families.
Up until then, our doors were never, and I mean NEVER locked, not in the daytime when we were gone, not at night when we were asleep.
Up until then, there was no need.
They were always locked at night after the Clutter murders.
Up until then, because the air conditioning we had wasn't really that great, my folks would put beds and old Army cots out into the back yard on the hottest summer nights, and we slept under the stars.
And before the Clutter murder the only thing we worried about while sleeping outside was getting bitten by mosquitoes, and the only thing I worried about was whether the coyotes we could hear yodeling at each other in the distance would come closer.
We never felt completely safe again…
After the Clutter murders, a new fear, a new possibility had entered our lives and our minds, and that changed our lives.
The peace and safety that had been ours was gone. We never felt completely safe on the farm and we never slept in the yard under the stars again.
You can read more about the Clutter Family at the Wichita Eagle website here.


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Watch One Direction Imitate the Wanted + Perform 'Live While We're Young' Acoustically
Everyone knows One Direction are hilarious. But they take it to a whole other level in a new radio interview that was also caught on video.
The band was allowed free reign to take over the airwaves at U.K.'s RadioNow. The boys are clearly having a ball, especially Louis Tomlinson, who repeatedly yells, "What's ya name and where ya from?! We're the Wanted!" It's interesting that Louis is dropping the name of the other famous U.K. boy band of the moment, considering they have a pretty peppered past, with rumors of a rivalry — and with Louis being the most vitriolic towards the bad boys. For the record, though, both groups denied any beef!
Niall Horan has a ball telling callers that they've won tickets to see Manchester United, while Harry Styles fields calls from older women (of course). The guys can barely contain their own laughter, and it's hilarious just watching them — especially when they make their abrupt exit, leaving the poor DJs to explain to their listeners and callers what just happened (and that they never won tickets to see a soccer game).
In another radio sesh, the boys sit down and sing a lovely acoustic rendition of 'Live While We're Young,' accompanied only by a guitar. Liam Payne even adapts the lyrics a bit, eliciting a chuckle. Did we expect anything less? If music ever stops working out for these guys, comedy may well be in the cards.
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Girlfriend: Hey boyfriend, so who are you talking to? Boyfriend: Oh just a friend of mine. Girlfriend: are they female? Boyfriend: yes. Girlfriend: oh they must be one of your other women
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Columbus, Ohio -- January 5, 2001 -- Bill Yang, Systems Specialist at OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), attended a joint press conference in Washington D.C. on January 5, 2001 to officially unveil InfraGard, a cooperative venture he helped create among the National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and hundreds of partners around the country.
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November 1, 2000 -- The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) announced that OSC has acquired unlimited use of the NAG C, Fortran and Parallel Libraries for use on OSC's high performance supercomputers.
Columbus, Ohio -- September 19, 2000 -- For the past 12 years, OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) has made a place for itself in the world of high performance networking and computing. This year will be no exception when OSC showcases recent projects at Supercomputing 2000 (SC2000), an annual week-long national supercomputing conference. SC2000 will be held at the Dallas Convention Center in Texas on November 4-10.
Columbus, OH -- July 25, 2000 -- The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) will participate in the fifth National Computational Science Alliance Chautauqua, giving users and educators an opportunity to learn about Access Grid technologies. Registration is free for the event (see http://www.ncsa.edu/chautauqua).
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- July 6, 2000 -- OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and The Ohio State University (OSU) will present SI00:Adventures in Computing and Networking onJuly 17-28, 2000.
Columbus, Ohio -- June 7, 2000 -- Studies show that by the time many middle-school girls enter 9th grade, they've already lost interest in math and science. They turn to more "socially accepted" subjects like English and art. For many girls, math and science are just too boring, too hard, or too uncool. Besides, everybody knows that math and science are for boys, right?
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- May 24, 2000 -- ECom-Ohio today released its statewide and regional assessments of Ohio's readiness for electronic commerce. At the event, key leaders in government, education and industry unveiled action agendas designed to help Ohio lead in the coming e-commerce revolution. The action agendas require key industry, infrastructure and educational changes to be made at both the state and regional levels.
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Some aviation art, like some airplanes, are just good therapy. Whether it's the nostalgic appeal they have or the mood they foster, paintings like Nixon Galloway's ""Tiger in the Fall,"" which depicts a vintage Tiger Moth landing on a country grass strip, are very popular.
Having my gallery on an airport has its advantages and disadvantages. I get to see all the planes that come in and, if I see something interesting in the pattern or hear the unique sound of a warbird, I can step outside and watch it land. The disadvantage is that sometimes it's hard to get any work done with all those wonderful distractions.
For instance, the other day, I was watching one of the local pilots do touch-and-goes in his Piper Cub. He's been flying for years, but recently bought the Cub just for some ""fun"" flying. Another taildragger pilot has ""My Therapist"" painted on his plane.
On most weekends I can look out the door and see Nick Baker's Tiger Moth, like the one in Galloway's painting, on the ramp not too far from my front door. On weekends when he's not flying a Cessna Citation as a corporate pilot, Nick usually can be found at Cable Airport selling rides in his vintage Tiger Moth. Probably none of his customers know that it was once owned by actor Cliff Robertson. To them, it's just a unique opportunity to get a ride in an open cockpit biplane.
The plane, a deHavilland Tiger Moth DH 82A, serial number 82960, was built in 1940 and was assigned to the RAF until 1947. Then it was sold to a civilian flying club and was eventually acquired by Robertson in 1963 while he was making a movie in England. Afterwards, he had the plane shipped home and had it completely restored. Nick bought the plane from him in 1987 and spent the next nine years restoring it. Vintage planes need a lot of TLC, but that's what keeps them as good as the day they came out of the factory.
Nick has all the aircraft's logbooks since it was surplused out of the RAF. According to those logbooks, Charles Lindbergh flew it in September 1969. Below his signature with a later date is astronaut Buzz Aldrin's signature. The plane also has appeared in movies, according to Nick.
Like the Tiger Moth, Nick Baker is a native of England. When he was 13, he became an air cadet and got his first ride in a deHavilland Chipmunk. Fifteen minutes into the flight his instructor showed him how to loop the plane and then Nick did it himself. He was hooked on flying ever since. In 1980 he came over to the U.S. for a visit and, after getting his ATP license, decided to stay. Later, in 1987, when he had the opportunity to acquire the Tiger Moth, he knew that was the plane he wanted for ""fun"" flying.
Living in Southern California, one tends to forget that the rest of this great nation is not so densely populated. Here, it's virtually one continuous city from Los Angeles to San Diego and from the sea to the desert. Finding an off-field spot to land in an emergency is a definite challenge. We still have several private airports in the Southland, but only a fraction of those that were here prior to 1946 when the postwar population explosion started. It seems every year or so another airport is plowed up for a shopping mall or housing development.
Fortunately, in many parts of this great nation it's still possible now and then — though frowned upon — to make off-airport landings in fields or on a lonely country road to say hi to a neighbor, especially if you're flying a vintage taildragger. Many farmers who have the flying bug have set aside a small grass strip just for their own private use.
There's something special about Tiger Moths, Piper Cubs, Porterfields, Luscombes, Cessna 120s and 140s, Aeronca Champs and other legendary puddle jumpers built more than a half-century ago. Yes, they were all taildraggers, and they were economical and very easy to fly. They were, and still are, perfect if all you want to do is go up for awhile and get away from it all and enjoy the view.
Some people enjoy flying for a few hours of quiet relaxation away from the hustle-bustle of today's fast paced society. They savor the peaceful atmosphere that lets them forget their troubles and just enjoy being alive.
It doesn't matter whether you call it nostalgic, historic or quixotic, art that conveys a message of tranquillity is mood art. It reminds us of a time and place we all would occasionally like to go for a moment of quiet. That is its appeal, and the artist who can provide an image that we can escape into, such as Galloway's ""Tiger in the Fall,"" has created far more than just a pretty picture.
Larry W. Bledsoe is an avid aviation historian and writer. He can be contacted at 909-986-1103.


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xtyler necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 186 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Reflex is a free community software project for programmers with an emphasis in good design and usability. It's built on Adobe's Flash technology, enhancing Flash's rich animation and media capabilities with smart controls such as buttons, scrollbars, windows and yet-to-be imagined controls for really beautiful and custom program designs. Great for desktop and internet programs, the software is also small and fast making it ideal for mobile applications on phones and tablets.
The target audience is existing Flash developers and designers. Many of these individuals have a strong background in both technology and design and use Flash as an animation tool to do agency work (movie, product, and other branding/marketing websites). These are savvy and media-crazed professionals who are excited about the software we're providing, partially because it saves them time/money, but mostly because it opens up a new world of creativity they will explore in their own work.
Final designs should be suitable for use on the web, in print and promotional materials (t-shirts, stickers, buttons, etc).
An open free logo contest was run a while back, contributed to primarily by developers who are interested in using Reflex. None of these logos were satisfactory, but their ratings and comments might be helpful: http://reflexlogo.uservoice.com/
Following are some guidelines, logo must be:
* unique and memorable, but must be readable
* balance of clear & simple with edgy & digital
* must have a vector basis (incl illustrator file) - look good as a silhouette
* a fitting color scheme, prefer to be kept with in 2-tones (not a full color wheel)
* keep the swooshes to a minimum, or at least not cliche
* possible fitted variations for long rectangle and square regions
Required deliverables:
* original illustrator (ai) file with list of fonts used
* high resolution images suitable for print materials
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Check Out Beastie Boys' Unaired Chappelle's Show Performance
There are hundreds of Beastie Boys tributes on the Internet, including our favorite 'Sabotage' clip by some adorable kids. But a cool video recently surfaced of a rare unaired performance from the trio.
Oh No They Didn't posted a video of the Beastie Boys performing 'The New Style' on 'Chappelle's Show.' Originally, the show's co-creator Neal Brennan posted it on his YouTube but was taken down by Viacom due to copyright issues. According to Brennan, the performance was slated for the third season of 'Chappelle's Show' but never aired after Dave Chappelle abruptly quit the show.
In the grainy video, the Beasties are performing 'The New Style' outside in the dead of winter. WTF? Dressed in heavy coats, the trio performed their sample-heavy track next to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty. Although it was cold outside, the Beasties were heating the mics up with their back-and-forth wordplays. Props to Mixmaster Mike for his superior turntable skills and switching up the beat near the end of the song.
Overall, the Beastie Boys showed how much they love hip-hop and the city of New Yawk. It's a wonderful tribute to their late member Adam 'MCA' Yauch.
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Mix: DJSB – Endless Summer Vol. 1August 18th, 2012 by Siegz | Daily Mix, Hip-Hop/Rap, Mashup, Remix |
DJSB, better known as Special Blend of Audible Mainframe released this summer mix a few weeks back. Bump this for good vibes and share it at your next party this summer. "Endless Summer Vol. 1" features a mix of all types of hip-hop over some light dance electro vibes and awesome hip-hop bass lines to create a smooth sound.


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Helping Seniors Remember Family and In Home Dementia and Alzheimers Care
Alzheimer's and other dementia related diseases are difficult to learn to cope with. You may have an elderly loved one who has recently been diagnosed with a dementia related disease. They may have good days and other days where they are very agitated because they can't remember things like they think they should. It's understandable that it would be very irritating to not be able to recall simple details like they used to.
Helping an aging loved one suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia can be difficult. We understand that you want to help your senior cling on to their memory for as long as possible. While every caregiver is different, and every patient is unique, there are still a few do's and don'ts that every caregiver should follow when helping seniors remember.
It can be very frustrating for your elderly loved one to learn to cope with a memory deteriorating disease like Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. There are times where they may even feel fearful because they are unable to recognize faces and locations where they are. It's important that you never ask your loved one, "don't you remember?" They already feel bad that they can't recall, and saying this makes them feel as if they have done something wrong.
Whenever possible, learn as much as you can about your loved one's past. It helps if you can help to bring back memories of their friends, family and history. You can research by looking through old photo albums. Perhaps your loved one kept a journal. If they are okay with it, reading through may help you gather information about them and help you to understand their actions and reactions.
Remember never to force your elderly loved one to do anything. If they will not eat, take a small break, and come back to it. Same goes for bathing and other activities that may bring resistance. Being stubborn never helped anyone, especially a person who is struggling with a dementia disease like Alzheimer's.
It is important to remember to treat your loved one like the adult that they are. Treating them like less than a normal human being can be very hurtful. Hold back any form of baby talk and don't' talk about them like they are not in the room.
Coping with dementia is something that requires the entire family's participation. If all are involved with helping your senior remember and are on the same page when it comes to caring for your loved one, there is more chance of success and an overall improvement in their wellbeing.
If you would like to learn more about in home senior care and in home dementia and Alzheimer's care, call Senior Helpers of Burnsville to speak to a senior care specialist today 952-892-8403! Senior Helpers of Burnsville provides a wide range of services including Alzheimer's and dementia care, personal assistance, companionship, and so much more to all areas of Burnsville, West St. Paul, South St. Paul, St. Paul, Apple Valley, Eagan, Lakeville, Minnesota.


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Twenty years from now, how many nuclear warheads on strategic submarines will the United States need? That's not an abstract question. The country is engaged in a costly, ambitious modernization of its nuclear weapons complex and development of a new generation of delivery systems — new strategic submarines, bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles that will be operating more than 50 years from now.
But shouldn't the questions be more basic, such as who is the enemy and how many subs would be needed to deter that enemy?
There will be at least four or five warheads on each of the 16 ICBMs carried on each of the new subs. Their destructive power will be eight to more than 20 times that of the atomic bomb that all but destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
That bomb killed 45,000 men, women and children instantly. Another 19,000 died during the next four months, according to a 1946 study by the Manhattan Engineer District, which built the bomb. The majority of those killed were civilians, though Hiroshima was picked because planners saw it as a military target with army barracks and defense factories. But the bomb — its 12.5 kiloton explosive power [equal to 12,500 tons of TNT], its heat effects and radiation — went well beyond those military targets. Today's nuclear weapons are 100 kilotons and above.
It's agreed that nuclear weapons don't deter terrorist groups. And if history is any guide, the more the United States and other nuclear-armed countries modernize their weapons, the more tempting it is for other countries to want nuclear arsenals.
So how many warheads does the United States need over the next 40 years to deter others? Keeping reading >>


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January 14, 2019, 12:27 amBrandon Ingram - F - Los Angeles Lakers
Brandon Ingram put up 22 points with seven rebounds on 8-of-14 shooting in 40 minutes as the Cavs beat the Lakers on Sunday.
He has been a massive fantasy disappointment this season as he is barely inside the top-300 in 9-cat leagues and is merely a scoring specialist in deep leagues. He has the potential to be a much better fantasy player than he is, but right now other stats are not showing up on the box score and his efficiency numbers have been sub-par. You should try to sell-high after this performance if you know someone in your league who likes him as his value is likely not skyrocketing any time soon.
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May 22, 2019, 12:27 amKyle Lowry - G - Toronto Raptors
Kyle Lowry went for 25 points (6-of-11 FGs, 10-of-10 FTs), five rebounds, six assists, three 3-pointers and just one turnover in 34 minutes in Tuesday's 120-102 win over the Bucks.
Lowry was feeling it and getting wherever he wanted most of the night. He's had a couple huge games in this series now and the Raptors will likely need another one if they're going to pull out a series win. Their next shot at the Bucks will come in Thursday night's Game 5 in Milwaukee.
May 22, 2019, 12:19 amSerge Ibaka - F/C - Toronto Raptors
Serge Ibaka double-doubled with 17 points (7-of-12 FGs, 3-of-3 FTs) and 13 rebounds in 24 minutes on Tuesday as the Raptors evened the series with a Game 4 home victory over the Bucks.
Ibaka provided some energy with some early dunks in traffic. This was his best game of the series by far, and it'll be interesting to see how the Bucks try to slow the Raptor's big men in Game 5 on Thursday.
May 22, 2019, 12:12 amMarc Gasol - C - Toronto Raptors
Marc Gasol had a great all-around performance with 17 points (6-of-11 FGs, 2-of-2 FTs), five rebounds, seven assists, one steal, two blocks, three treys, zero turnovers and some excellent defense over 31 minutes in Tuesday's win over the Bucks.
Gasol looked great out there, making life in the lane tough for Giannis Antetokounmpo and causing Bucks turnovers on the perimeter. That's two straight quality performances from Gasol after two duds to begin the series. We'll see if he can keep it up as the Raptors return to Milwaukee on Thursday night.
May 22, 2019, 12:04 amKawhi Leonard - F - Toronto Raptors
Kawhi Leonard toughed out 19 points on 13 shots in Tuesday's Game 4 win over the Bucks, adding seven rebounds, one assist, four steals, two blocks and a three in 34 minutes.
Leonard looked stiff and cautious for much of this game, though he still hit 6-of-13 from the field and 6-of-8 from the charity stripe. Kawhi said that he feels good in response to a question about fatigue and his apparent leg injury. He has until Thursday night to recover a bit, but the Raptors will need as much of him as they can get as the series returns to Milwaukee.
Source: Josh Lewenberg on Twitter
May 21, 2019, 11:55 pmNorman Powell - F/G - Toronto Raptors
Norman Powell scored 18 points with four threes, five rebounds, three assists and a steal in a big Game 4 victory over the Bucks on Tuesday.
Powell got big minutes again (32) and had it going early. His final line of 6-for-18 from the field (4-for-13 from deep) looks pretty inefficient, but Powell was a major factor in building tonight's big lead. With Kawhi Leonard hobbling a bit, the Raptors may need to continue leaning on Powell more than usual.
May 21, 2019, 11:47 pmMalcolm Brogdon - G - Milwaukee Bucks
Malcolm Brogdon shot just 2-for-11 from the field for four points in Tuesday's Game 4 road loss to the Raptors, adding just five rebounds and three assists in his 28 minutes.
Brogdon missed his only free throw attempt and all three of his shots from distance. It wouldn't have been so deflating if George Hill (five points on 1-for-2 shooting in 27 minutes) and Eric Bledsoe (five points on 2-for-7 shooting in 20 minutes) had produced, but the whole backcourt had a tough time getting going tonight.
May 21, 2019, 11:34 pmFred VanVleet - G - Toronto Raptors
Fred VanVleet was nearly perfect in Tuesday's Game 4 win over Bucks as he hit 5-of-6 from the field including all three of his triples for 13 points in 25 minutes.
Coming off of a 1-for-11 performance in Game 3, this was huge for the Raptors. VanVleet also had six assists, one rebound and one steal on the night. He'll look to keep it rolling in Milwaukee on Thursday.
May 21, 2019, 11:24 pmKhris Middleton - F - Milwaukee Bucks
Khris Middleton was on fire in Tuesday's 120-102 Game 4 loss on Tuesday in Toronto, shooting 11-for-15 from the field on his way to a game-high 30 points in 36 minutes.
Middleton drained 4-of-7 threes, 4-of-5 free throws, had six boards and seven assists with zero turnovers as well. The Bucks will need some supporting cast members to step up once again in Thursday's Game 4 back in Milwaukee. This series could easily go the distance, giving the Warriors an extra seven days of rest for the Finals.
May 21, 2019, 11:14 pmGiannis Antetokounmpo - F - Milwaukee Bucks
Giannis Antetokounmpo double-doubled with 25 points, 10 rebounds, five assists, a steal, three blocks and one 3-pointer in 34 minutes, but it was not enough in Tuesday's Game 4 loss to the Raptors.
Giannis hit 9-of-17 from the field but just 6-of-10 from the line in a minus 19 performance. He came out aggressive with some first quarter driving dunks, but the Raptors have been able to slow him down in the lane over the last couple of games. His next shot at them comes on Thursday in Milwaukee.
May 21, 2019, 11:06 pmEric Bledsoe - G - Milwaukee Bucks
Eric Bledsoe was nearly invisible in Tuesday's Game 4, going for just five points (2-of-7 FGs, 1-of-2 FTs), three rebounds and two assists in 20 minutes.
Bledsoe has been pretty abysmal in this series and it seems to be getting worse. George Hill and Malcolm Brogdon played more than him in this game (27 and 28 minutes, respectively) and there's a good chance that could continue with Bledsoe not being much of a threat on offense lately. Though, Hill and Brogdon did combine for just nine points in this game too.


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My AE86 has been completely ripped apart, trying a modified restore from scratch basically. She's getting a full role cage, hoping to find better interior panels (black) or I'll use door cards, seibon carbon fiber doors, seibon carbon fiber hood AND hatch, full vertex USA body kit, new brakes, new suspension, rebuilding the 4AGEC, the works. It's been a slow journey the past few years, but we're finally making progress and I hope to finish her by this summer.
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Rangers' run pleases Mets pitcher Harveyby Tal Pinchevsky
New York Mets ace Matt Harvey is used to getting approached by fans at ballparks. Posting a 4-0 record and miniscule 1.44 earned-run average this season will earn any major-league pitcher that kind of attention.
But when a group of fans recently greeted the 24-year-old before a game in St. Louis, the topic of discussion wasn't baseball. It was hockey, specifically the New York Rangers.
"I was running around for batting practice and people asked me about the Rangers," Harvey told NHL.com. "It would be nice for them to ask me about pitching and baseball. But while the Rangers are doing their thing, it's not a bad question for people to ask."
With the Rangers set to begin their Eastern Conference Semifinal series against the Boston Bruins on Thursday, Harvey has become one of the most high-profile additions to the bandwagon. Growing up, Harvey occasionally played hockey with his cousin in Vermont, but his allegiance to the Rangers mostly developed after the Connecticut native recently befriended Henrik Lundqvist and Brian Boyle, who played hockey at Boston College with a longtime friend of Harvey's.
"Becoming friends with those guys definitely escalated my fandom of watching the Rangers," Harvey said. "Before spring training started, I went to four or five games. They seemed to pull out wins every time I was there, so I kept cheering."
Harvey attended New York's 4-3 win in Game 3 of its Eastern Conference Quarterfinal series against the Washington Capitals. The victory improved the Rangers' record to 6-0 in games that Harvey has attended. Before long, area fans began to murmur that he might be a lucky charm.
That talk escalated the day after Game 3, when the head of Mets public relations, Jay Horwitz, wrote on Twitter that the team would be giving Harvey a day off so he could attend Game 4 of the series at Madison Square Garden. After throwing nine innings of one-hit ball against the Chicago White Sox on May 7, Harvey probably earned the day off. But Horwitz's joke appeared to be lost on a number of people who suspected that Harvey's devotion might have gone a bit too far.
"That was a rough morning. When that tweet came out, people were calling me saying, 'What's going on here?' I had no idea what was going on. I had just woken up," Harvey said. "I said, 'You know what? If I know Jay, he's completely kidding.'"
Hours before Game 6 between the Rangers and Capitals, with the forecast calling for rain and Harvey scheduled to start at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates, there was word he might make his way to MSG if the baseball game was rained out. The 6-foot, 4-inch right-hander would make the start that day, and the Rangers would defeat the Capitals 1-0 to force Game 7, which they won 5-0 on Monday.
"Nobody wants their game to get cancelled," Harvey said. "I threw it out there. There was a bunch of rain in the forecast. If it just so happened to get rained out, I was going to try to shoot over there."
Harvey wasn't able to make Game 4 or 6. But with the Mets scheduled for a day off May 23, the Sports Illustrated cover subject already has his tickets for Game 4 against the Bruins.
"[The Rangers] are obviously locked in. I understand how that goes. This is their time to play and perform and be in the spotlight," Harvey said. "After every win, I'm shooting both [Lundqvist and Boyle] text messages and saying 'Congratulations.' They're doing the same after they see a good outing from me. It's been a lot of fun. We'll be there cheering them on."


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In the last post I shared my transcription of the will of William Barlow, patten-maker of Compton Street, Soho, who died in 1779, and who I believe to have been the father of Jane Barlow, the first wife of my great-great-great-great-grandfather James Blanch.
Using the will, and our limited access to parish records (it's frustrating that very few Westminster records are yet available online, though I understand that this will improve later this year), we can begin to reconstruct William's family history.
For example, we learn from the will that William's wife was named Elizabeth, and that she was still alive when he wrote his will in November 1778. I haven't yet managed to find a record of their marriage, but it probably took place in the 1740s.
Six surviving children are mentioned in the will: five daughters – Mary, Jane, Ann, Hannah and Margaret – and a son, William. Making use of the available online sources, I've managed to find further information about some, but not all of these children.
As mentioned before, Jane Barlow was born in Westminster on 23 January 1752 and christened on 9 February. I've also found a record of the christening of William Roberts Barlow in Westminster on 17 October 1753. He was born two weeks earlier, on 3 October, the son of William and Elizabeth. His middle name may be a clue to his mother's maiden name. Ann Barlow was born on 23 October 1759 and christened on 13 November. Margaret is likely to have been born after this date, since her father's will refers to her as being, like her sister Ann, under twenty-one years of age, unmarried, and in need of funds for her 'Maintenance and Education'.
I haven't yet found christening records for Hannah or Mary, though William's will tells us that both were married, so they must have been born by the mid-1750s at the very latest. We learn from the will that Hannah was married to Henry Davis of Little Tottenham Street (off Tottenham Court Road). Henry was a coach maker: I wonder if it's just coincidence that a number of James Blanch's sons would follow this occupation?
In January 1780, Elizabeth, wife of stone mason William Smith, 'late of the parish of St Pancras', was tried at the Middlesex Sessions 'for making an Assault upon one Hannah the wife of Henry Davis on the 25th November last.' The witnesses were Henry and Hannah Davis, and Ann Barlow – presumably Hannah's younger sister. The jury found Elizabeth Smith not guilty.
William Barlow's will also informs us that his daughter Mary was married to Thomas Gatton of Wardour Street, who was also the tenant of one of William's properties there. Thomas and Mary were both said to be living in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields when they were married there on 17 August 1767 (this suggests that Mary was born at the very latest by 1750, and probably earlier). There are a number of references to Thomas, who was a cheesemonger, in contemporary trade directories.
As for William Barlow himself, we learn from the will that while his main address (and presumably that of his obviously profitable patten-making business) was in Compton Street, Soho, he also owned other properties in Westminster – in Wardour Street, Poulteney Street and in Cross Lane, off Long Acre – as well as 'my Freehold Lands Messuages Tenements and Hereditaments situate and being at Castle Bear in the parish of Ealing'.
As I've noted before, the fact that (according to the Westminster pollbooks) James Blanch also lived in Compton Street and was also a patten-maker, is fairly convincing evidence of a link with William Barlow. From the same source we also know that in 1790 James, now married to Jane Barlow, was living in Cross Lane in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields. In his will, William Barlow bequeaths properties in Cross Lane to his daughter Jane: perhaps it was in one of these houses that she and her husband James were living?
Although there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that William Barlow of Compton Street was James Blanch's father-in-law, in one respect his will raises doubts about that hypothesis. William names as co-executors his daughter Jane, who was unmarried and about twenty-seven years old at the time of his death, and 'James Frith the Younger of Sheppards Market in the parish of St George Hanover Square in the … County of Middlesex Grocer'. Shepherd Market was then, as now, a narrow street and square off Piccadilly, on the original site of the 'May fair' that gave the district its name. There appears to have been no blood tie between James Frith and William Barlow: elsewhere in the will there is a reference to 'my friend Mr James Frith the Elder', presumably the father of the first-mentioned James Frith. Yet not only is the younger James made co-executor with William's daughter Jane, he is also to inherit with her all of William's freehold property in Ealing, as well as other properties in London.
The fact that no clear division is made in this joint bequest might lead one to suspect that James Frith and Jane Barlow were engaged to be married when William wrote his will, and that therefore he was inclined to treat them as a single beneficiary. I've seen a copy of the younger James' will (he died in 1794) and it reveals that his wife's name was in fact Jane, and that she survived him. Does this mean that he, and not James Blanch, was William Barlow's son-in-law and that 'our' James married a different Jane Barlow?
On the other hand, James Frith's will doesn't include any mention of Barlow in-laws, or of the properties bequeathed in William Barlow's will. Neither does the will of his father, James Frith the Elder, who died in 1783. The puzzle would be solved if we could find evidence of the younger James Frith's marriage, but so far this has eluded me.
William Barlow signed and sealed his will on 2 November 1778. It was proven on 14 August 1779, so he must have died at some point in the intervening months, probably in July or August. In August, his daughter Jane was still being described as a 'spinster'. However, it may not be coincidental that less than a month later, on 5 September 1779, a Jane Barlow married my 4 x great grandfather James Blanch at St Anne's church, Soho. Of course it's still possible that this Jane wasn't, after all, the son of William Barlow of Compton Street, but this seems unlikely. It's also possible that she was, at some stage, engaged to be married to James Frith, but that (after her father's death?) she switched her preference to James Blanch who (as I speculated in an earlier post) might have been her father's apprentice. Only time, and further research, will tell…
Update: 27 March 2012
Now that Westminster parish registers are available (as of today!) at findmypast, I've been able to look up James Frith and see that the person he married at St George, Hanover Square, in 1779 was Jane Atkinson. This doesn't solve the mystery of why James featured so prominently in William Barlow's will, but it does reassure me that he didn't, after all, marry William's daughter Jane.


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What is a Stored Procedure?
A stored procedure is a set of SQL statements stored on the server that takes in certain arguments and processes that code with those arguments at execution time. It can be invoked simply by making a call to the procedure with the correct arguments. The difference between stored procedures and other sets of SQL statements is that stored procedures reside on the server and are pre-compiled.
Stored procedures are an integral part of the Oracle and MS SQL databases. MySQL has joined the bandwagon with its latest developer release. MySQL currently supports the SQL: 2003 syntax but will support T-SQL and Oracle PL/SQL syntaxes in the future. However, I should warn you that this release is still in the alpha stage and is not ready for prime time just yet. Even then, it helps to understand a little more about stored procedures since a mature release may be available in the not–so-distant future.
Why should I care?
You have been getting by just fine without any knowledge of stored procedures, thank you very much. But take a minute to understand how stored procedures in general could benefit you:
- Better performance Stored procedures are faster because they are pre-compiled SQL code. This reduces the "Compile and Execute" step to just "Execute' in most cases. Also, only the call to the stored procedure needs to be sent to the server instead of chunks of information – this reduces the information that needs to be sent to the server and acts like a call to a remote procedure. This is an advantage when it comes to code that is called repeatedly. However, the load on the server is another point to consider since most of the processing will now be done on the server.
- Easier to maintain Since all the SQL can now be stored on the server, it is easier to make changes to the stored procedure than to a bunch of SQL statements distributed all over the application.
- Security Although the use of stored procedures is not by itself a guarantee of security, it can be used to create an environment where applications and users can only access database tables through the stored procedures, instead of giving them direct access to the tables. The benefit is a layer of abstraction.
- Optimization When a SQL statement is parsed by the server, it is optimized internally by the server. If a bunch of SQL statements are sent to the server, repeatedly, they have to be optimized each time. The SQL statements in the stored procedure that is in memory have to only be optimized once and an execution plan is created for the SQL statements in the stored procedure.
Frans Bouma has done a great job of listing the cons associated with the usage of stored procedures, with great passion – I might add – and so instead of repeating it, I will let you read it at http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2003/11/18/38178.aspx.
Using stored procedures is just one way to manipulate data. Good or bad – I leave it for you to decide. The scope of this tutorial is to have you creating stored procedures in MySQL in no time, should you want to. However, it is my opinion that there are times when the use of stored procedures is warranted for the reasons outlined above.
{mospagebreak title=Create a Stored Procedure}
Creating your first stored procedure
To learn about stored procedures in MySQL, let's start at the beginning. The first order of business is to create a stored procedure in MySQL. The parser checks for syntax errors when the procedure is being created and checks for existence of variables, parameter count etc. when it is executed for the first time.
Bring up the command window for MySQL. Change to the database that you want to use. Create a widget table (or a table named widget).
mysql> CREATE TABLE WIDGET (
-> WIDGET_ID int(11),
-> WIDGET_PRICE decimal(6,2));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.45 sec)
Populate it with the following values using the INSERT statement.
mysql> INSERT INTO WIDGET VALUES (1,253.00);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from widget;
| 1 | 253.00 |
| 2 | 202.00 |
| 3 | 734.40 |
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> INSERT INTO WIDGET VALUES (4,234.00);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Create the stored procedure by using the syntax below.
mysql> DELIMITER |
mysql> CREATE PROCEDURE PARTPRICE
-> (partid INT ,
-> Quantity INT,
-> price DECIMAL(6,2)
-> )
-> DECLARE discount_percent DECIMAL(6,2);
-> DECLARE discounted_price DECIMAL(6,2);
-> SET discount_percent = 15;
-> SET discounted_price = price – discount_percent /100*price;
-> IF quantity > 2 THEN
-> SET discounted_price = discounted_price – 2.00;
-> SET widget_price = discounted_price WHERE widget_id = partid;
-> Select * from widget;
-> |
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> DELIMITER ;
The following stored procedure called PARTPRICE, accepts a part id, the number of parts purchased and the price of the part and calculates the discounted price for that part and updates the Widget table. It also displays the table with the updated values, which is possible since MySQL allows the use of simple SELECT statements without cursors or local variables inside a stored procedure.
The DELIMITER statement serves to change the delimiter from the regular ";" to the character that you specify after the DELIMITER keyword. The purpose of this is to allow MySQL to use a different delimiter to indicate the end of the procedure, since the semi-colon is being used within the stored procedure to indicate the end of a statement to the parser. This allows us to use a group of statements inside the BEGIN … END block. You can choose any delimiter you like. When you call a procedure, it can only pass back values using output variables. Stored procedures can also call other stored procedures, thus extending the power of stored procedures many-fold.
The scope of the declared variables is within the BEGIN .. END block. Only one BEGIN .. END block may exist within a stored procedure. However, you may add a label to the BEGIN .. END statements. The labels should match if both are specified. Tables are defaulted to the database used by the caller. A different database can be specified using the Use database directive or the database_name.table_name syntax.
Label: BEGIN
End Label
Passing parameters
The parameter list should always be present for a procedure even if there are no parameters to be specified. A parameter is an IN parameter by default and is passed by reference; that is, a pointer to the IN parameter is passed to the corresponding formal parameter. However, the OUT and IN OUT parameters are passed by value.
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Calling a procedure
The benefit of a stored procedure truly hits you when you call your first stored procedure.
mysql> CALL PARTPRICE( 3, 1, 864);
| 1 | 253.00 |
| 2 | 536.90 |
| 3 | 734.40 |
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
See how simple it is? This is a great way to group together code that is common to many parts of your application so that you can call it from different places in your application with different parameters with just one statement. This also makes it easier to change the code in just one place instead of in several places.
Dropping a procedure
If you made a non-syntactical mistake while creating your first procedure don't lose heart.
You can just drop that procedure and create a new procedure with the same name.
IF you are not sure if a procedure exists, it is probably a good idea to insert the "IF EXISTS" clause in your DROP PROCEDURE statement. This tells MySQL to only drop a procedure if it existed in the first place. If the procedure does not exist, a warning is generated instead of an error, which can be viewed by typing the "SHOW WARNINGS" command.
mysql> DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS PARTPRICE;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> DROP PROCEDURE PARTPRICE
-> ;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> SHOW WARNINGS;
| Level | Code | Message |
| Warning | 1289 | PROCEDURE part does not exist |
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Some useful statements
mysql> SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE PARTPRICE;
It shows you the statement used to create the procedure. This is useful to have if you didn't create the procedure in the first place but want to know how.
| Procedure | Create Procedure
| PARTPRICE | CREATE PROCEDURE `PARTPRICE`(partid INT ,
Quantity INT,
price DECIMAL(6,2)
DECLARE discount_percent DECIMAL(6,2);
DECLARE discounted_price DECIMAL(6,2);
SET discount_percent = 15;
SET discounted_price = price – discount_percent /100*price;
IF quantity > 2 THEN
SET discounted_price = discounted_price – 2.00;
SET widget_price = discounted_price WHERE widget_id = partid;
Select * from widget;
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
{mospagebreak title=Alter Procedure and Conclusion}
Alter procedure
The alter procedure statement may be used to change the name of a stored procedure or change its other characteristics such as comments or security associated with it.
mysql> ALTER PROCEDURE PARTPRICE NAME partprice;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
There –- now you know how to create a stored procedure — you are only limited by your imagination and the MySQL documentation. However, stored procedures in MySQL are still young and in the alpha stage. So, don't be surprised if you come across bugs; after all, this is only a sneak preview. If you do encounter bugs, please check at http://bugs.mysql.com. If your bug is not listed, please add it there for the benefit of others.
In this article, we learned how to create a simple stored procedure and run it from the command prompt. For more information on stored procedures in MySQL, visit the MySQL website at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Stored_Procedures.html.


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The most common sites of sarcomas are the legs, hands, arms, head, neck, chest, shoulders, abdomen and hips. There may be no symptoms in early stages of the disease, but as sarcomas grow larger they can cause pain or swelling as they press against nerves or muscles. If left unchecked, sarcomas can spread to the liver, lungs and sometimes to the brain.
No one knows why some people develop sarcomas and others don't. Exposure to herbicides, wood preservatives and radiation from prior cancer treatment is thought to increase the likelihood of developing sarcoma, and genetic factors can also play a role. However, many people who develop sarcomas have no identifiable risk factors.
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